It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

You wouldn't know how to perform a sketch that you don't find funny. You just couldn't do it.

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.

I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

But we did see the process develop. I remember going to the Rocket Pictures base and they had something like 40 people there, drawing. They didn't know what the characters looked like yet and I remember on the walls seeing 30 or 40 different versions of Juliet. So, it was then that I realised that someone's got to come in and make some really executive decisions.