Alan Ayckbourn

I loved the way they were very much like an ...

The di- if you listen to the dialogue, it's very much like an Alan Ayckbourn play, you know?

Yeah.

You ever do an Alan Ayckbourn play, you've got ...

The ga- the gag is you got to build it up, build it up, and the gag is when you puncture the souffle and it all comes down [laughs].

That's the gag.

Go on then, what were you watching? What were you watching?

Uh, I went to see How the Other Half Love, the Alan Ayckbourn play at the Old Vic, and it was great.

Roger Allen was great.

There's just a weird act in the second half that I got a bit bored, and, and I started thinking about hitting three wood off deck at Muswell Hill.

Yeah, that is always an interesting, both in fiction [laughs] and real life, a, an interesting role to fill, and something that in, in books and movies, and, and...

This is actually reminding me a lot of, uh, it's older, so I can't speak to the, like, contemporary concerns, but there's a series of plays called The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn that I discovered when I was a kid in university, uh, that I think are really fun, and they are, like, three plays that are set over the same weekend.

It's a m- it's like what if a sex farce had heart is kinda...

It's a British sex farce sorta thing.