I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.

Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.

I think 99% of the whole thing is to have passion about the idea yourself. I think part of your job as a filmmaker is to tell someone that might not think it's going to work that, actually, it will work.

I always think it's just best to just make stuff and to carry on making stuff, even if it's not off your own back, because that's the only way... especially as a comedy writer, I make short films and then show them to live audience, so if they're laughing you know you're doing something right.

I think what's difficult is proving to people that a script actually does work and sometimes the laughter might not be on the page, it might be between the lines.

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.