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

We developed 'Sightseers' as a TV idea but didn't get anywhere with it because all the channels said it was too dark originally as an idea for television.

Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.

When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind of thing.

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.

If you can make someone believe that you believe in the idea then I think that's worth a lot.

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.