Interview
Geoff Norcott is certainly busy at the moment. He's on the final pre-Brexit Question Time on BBC One on Thursday, January 30 and then he is on The Last Leg on Channel 4 on Friday, January 31. Nice to know Brexit is helping at least one person's career!
Below is a transcript of the Q&A with Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and Inside No. 9 producer Adam Tandy, which took place after an exclusive screening of two episodes at the BFI in London earlier this month, The Referee's A W***er, which opens the new series, and The Stakeout, which closes it.
Inside No. 9 returns on Monday 3rd February at 10pm on BBC Two.
In 2014 I interviewed Terry Jones for Reader's Digest. The piece coincided with an exhibition at the British Museum that historian Jones was speaking at. But maybe of greater importance, it had just been announced that Monty Python shows were to take place at the 02 Arena. Jones was probably the most affable interviewee I have ever encountered.
In a competitive field Laura Lexx is rising quickly as one of the country’s brightest stand-ups. She’s appeared on Live At The Apollo on the BBC, The Jason Manford Show on Absolute Radio, and Roast Battle on Comedy Central, while also regularly hosting The Comedy Club on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Laura has a string of award wins to her name such as Best MC at the UK Comedy Awards 2017 and Best Performer in the Comedians’ Choice Awards for both 2018 and 2019.
Karl Pilkington returns as the middle-aged man haunted by the voice inside his head as he lurches from one existential crisis to another. Read an interview with him below.
King Gary is a larger-than-life family sitcom for BBC One. Produced by Shiny Button Productions and brought to you by the BAFTA-winning creative team behind Murder in Successville, it is written by Tom Davis and James De Frond, with Davis starring as the lead and De Frond directing.
Always a man who likes an incendiary show title, Phoenix From The Flames represents Nick Helm’s return to something like his old self. The man who starred in BBC Three’s wonderfully charming Uncle, fronted a food programme for Dave entitled Eat Your Heart Out, and has appeared in two series of Romesh Ranganathan’s Sky sitcom The Reluctant Landlord, has always given off the vibe that just about anything could happen during one of his live extravaganzas.
Sean Finegan, as befits his status as the straight man in the Irish sketch group Foil Arms and Hog, is the spokesman for the trio off stage. It makes life easier for us to speak directly, he says, adding drily: “Otherwise I might say something witty and you'd attribute it to one of the other guys.”
We chat about their latest show, Swines, which is touring the UK after a sell-out season at the Edinburgh Fringe, but first Finegan explains how the trio met and got their distinctive name.
Paul McCaffrey can still remember the first successful comedy routine he wrote, even though it was over a decade ago. “It was about cash machines and how frustrating it was when you were queuing to use one.”
It went down so well at his early gigs he ended up doing it a few years later on television on Russell Howard’s Good News.
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