00:00It is Woody Allen-esque, but it has the attitude of, it's written by a woman, and it's like, what
00:07would the young woman's mother think of that?
00:09Congratulations, Alice and Steve. I love this, I think it's brilliant. I ran the trailer in one of our bulletins
00:16a couple of weeks ago, and I kept going back to it.
00:18My partner was like, what are you laughing at? And it's just these little moments, definitely a bit of me.
00:23But, cars on the table, I'm an easy get, because I'm a deep-rooted Jermaine Clement enthusiast.
00:29I had Eagle vs. Shark on DVD, and Gentleman Broncos, and Enthusiast. It goes deeper than that, I think.
00:37Yeah, fans a bit surfaced, isn't it?
00:38I still have Ian and Deanna on my running playlist from Concordes Live eight years ago.
00:45And I'm just going to open up to get this out of the way. If, when, how, are we going
00:50to get that again?
00:50Are you guys going to come back? I know you did the Netflix thing recently.
00:53Yeah, we probably will. You mean, are we going to come here to the UK?
00:56Yes, right here and do me another concert.
00:58I'm thinking about it at the moment, yeah. I'm thinking about it.
01:01I think it was the first gig I've ever went to where the artist did new material, and it was
01:06like, better than the old material.
01:08Usually, you sort of roll your eyes, going, oh, no, it's the new songs.
01:10Right, right, right.
01:12But Father and Son and Ian and Deanna were just like, absolute bangers.
01:15You haven't seen it, I've heard it, guys. Just crack on.
01:17Thanks.
01:18That's the effect he has, you see. And then we had to turn up day one and film with him,
01:22and you have to hide all that.
01:23Yeah.
01:23Yeah, just bury it deep.
01:25Bury it down, deep.
01:27Let's talk about the show, then.
01:28Well, it was very, very deeply buried.
01:32It was almost animosity.
01:35So, Ian and Deanna, Ian and Deanna, I'm so obsessed with that.
01:38Alice and Steve.
01:38Alice and Steve, guys.
01:39Ian and Deanna made the show.
01:40So, Concord's live, guys.
01:43New show, absolutely love it.
01:44Sort of, the question of, can Ben and Winnowin really be friends, or does one of them secretly want to
01:49sleep with the other one's offspring, I guess.
01:52That classic, that classic question.
01:54That classic question we're always asking ourselves.
01:56Is this, is this like the best thing you guys have read for a while?
01:59Because it's the first thing that's made me laugh out loud for, maybe in the past six months.
02:03I won't say that, it's not to insult the other writers that I'd like to continue to work with.
02:09But it was a really great script.
02:10It was great.
02:11Yeah.
02:13I really enjoyed it.
02:15A page turner.
02:15Yeah, it was, I imagine it was a page turner.
02:19Nicola, we've kind of gotten used to you.
02:21This is an incredible, dramatic actress over the years.
02:25Like, Spooks was amazing.
02:26I remember watching Shooting Dogs years ago, and so many times.
02:29Oh, that was you.
02:30That was me.
02:31Great movie, guys.
02:32Catch that as well.
02:34This is what I do most of the time.
02:35I just talk about stuff people did years ago and tell them to watch it again.
02:37It was a really good movie, wasn't it?
02:39Really, really good movie.
02:39We came out at the same time as Hotel Rwanda.
02:41I've got a question.
02:43Because everyone's asking about this, going from drama to comedy.
02:45Yeah.
02:46Do you approach them differently?
02:47No.
02:48No.
02:48Good.
02:49Well, thanks, guys.
02:50It was really good.
02:52What was your question?
02:53My question was, I'm sure I had one in there somewhere.
02:57Is it about that?
02:58Is it about whether or not you did, because I'm more used to, I'm more known for drama.
03:01No, not really.
03:01It was more just like how enjoyable and freeing it was to play a character that was kind of
03:08unhinged in a different way, I guess.
03:10Because we've seen you in comedy before, but it's been a few years.
03:13Mary George was hilarious, but like very wicked.
03:16Yeah.
03:16Was there ever that thing where you worry, have I still got it in my locker to make people
03:20guffaw and laugh because I've done this other thing for so long?
03:23You always think, have I still got it?
03:24Whatever they're asking you for.
03:26I always think, have I, not still, have I got that in my locker with every job you get?
03:32So the actor's brain, that's how the actor's brain works generally.
03:35Yeah.
03:36So, but when you're working with people like this, you're fine.
03:40Well, I'm in things where everyone, usually the things I'm in, everyone's trying to think
03:44of how to make it funny.
03:45Right.
03:45But sometimes the people I find funniest are dramatic actors.
03:48I guess like Leslie Nielsen would be a perfect example.
03:51He's just playing it straight and he would do it the way there's drama.
03:55And often I find dramatic actors doing funny things funnier.
04:00Yeah.
04:00I don't know if that's also what we project onto him as well because I think everyone's
04:04great in this, but I feel, Nicola, your character is probably the funniest in a way because when
04:10you hit those kind of strange lines where she's kind of going off track, a bit like in episode
04:15two when you're doing the voices when they're looking at different like underpants.
04:21Oh yeah, the pants.
04:21And I just thought, I was laughing my ass off at like two in the morning watching that.
04:26And I don't know if it's because it's like you're in this intense situation that when
04:31you do something that's kind of off-culture.
04:34It's extremes.
04:35It's Sophie playing with what people do when they're really under pressure.
04:38And that's funny.
04:40It's, it's, it's, I think it's awful as well for all of them individually, but people in
04:44extremis are funny.
04:46I find, uh, this is one of these shows where, you know, things like The Office, there's like
04:50cringe humour.
04:51Yeah.
04:51And you feel awkward and your stomach like tightens up, but you can't look away.
04:55I don't know what the difference is here because this has like really cringey moments, but my
05:00stomach didn't tighten up.
05:01It was like, the word I come up with, it sounds like wanky.
05:05Like delicious in a way.
05:06Like I was, I was so, I was enjoying every bit of, I wanted it to be even worse.
05:10I don't know.
05:11Like I said before, but it's like crisps that are very Moorish.
05:14It's like, it's not good for me.
05:15This isn't good for anyone.
05:17But I just can't.
05:17I should have more empathy for the characters in The Office.
05:21Oh, right.
05:21Yeah.
05:22Yeah.
05:23Yeah, maybe.
05:24Yeah.
05:24How, how did you get involved, Jermaine?
05:26Because the last few years you have been kind of in control of so much of, of what you've
05:33done.
05:34Uh, like Time Bandits, you were like writing, putting that whole show, uh, together.
05:39Uh, before that.
05:41What we do in the shadows.
05:42Yeah.
05:42What we do in the shadows.
05:43Amazing.
05:45Uh, it's such a relief not to have to be in charge of it because, uh, usually when I'm
05:52acting in a thing that I've written, I'm worried about what everyone else is saying.
05:56And it's like, oh, someone's done that.
05:57Someone's on that.
05:58And they're all on that.
05:59And I don't have to go, can you change this to this?
06:01And can you try this?
06:02And, um, it's, it was a lot of fun for that reason.
06:06You didn't have to like quieten that voice down in your head at any point.
06:09No, no.
06:10It's just like relax.
06:11I just do the thing.
06:11I try and learn the lines and, um, say the lines.
06:15Looking at me, try and learn the lines.
06:17And I love the kind of intergenerational humor in this.
06:21I love it when I think, cause I'm, I'm 37 now.
06:23So I'm kind of on that like bridge, uh, between you're a child to us.
06:27I'm a child.
06:27Yeah.
06:28It's from child to you.
06:29Um, but I, I really enjoyed the way this show, it makes me want to go out and like rewatch
06:35a Woody Allen movie and protest kind of thing in a way.
06:37So let's talk about that.
06:39Let's talk about that.
06:40Well, it is kind of, it is Woody Allen-esque, but it has the attitude of, it's written by
06:45a woman.
06:46And it's like, what would, what would the young woman's mother think of that?
06:51And then that character's in the, in the story.
06:55How did, how did it feel to kind of play with that?
06:58It was, it sort of, um, I guess it's, that must be really fun to write that kind of stuff.
07:03You have to ask the writer, but I think she does enjoy it.
07:06She's always, she's so, she's the most excited person on set.
07:09So yeah.
07:10Hmm.
07:11Well, I really enjoyed this guys.
07:12I, I want to watch, I keep telling whenever I see something I really like, I might make
07:16it forever, but then obviously that would be awful.
07:18So make it for the right amount of time.
07:20We're so excited.
07:21We're hoping, we're hoping, we're all hoping to do it again.
07:24Yeah.
07:25Yeah.
07:25Uh, well, I've only got through three episodes of this series.
07:28So I'm glad to hear that.
07:29Oh, you wait.
07:30Oh, yes, you wait.
07:31Um, so hopefully you all survive.
07:33As there's a dog, uh, despite what you've done to it, people have to watch that to understand
07:38that reference.
07:39Uh, and yeah, hopefully I'll see you down the line with another tour as well.
07:43Thanks for your time guys.
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