Growing up, I didn't feel very cool having come from the Midlands.

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 it's very easy to get discouraged early on.

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.

We actually did go on a camping trip together as part of the research, in a caravan, for a week. I guess we picked who annoyed us most from genuine experience. We did a lot of research on camping and what annoys people. It's quite often children playing ball games. It's a huge debate in the caravan world whether children should be allowed to play ball games or not.

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

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.