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

'Sightseers' started off as a character comedy double act.

It's nice to think people might be talking about it after they've seen it. With some comedies it's a bit 'wham bam thank you ma'am', and then you just go for a pizza.

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.

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

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.

Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.