Rebecca Front

yeah

steve coogan obviously patrick marber he's known more as a playwright now he's a very very lauded satirical playwright rebecca front and Carried on appearing in comedy.

Well, continued to be a comedic actress primarily for decades, but is now kind of transitioned into a character actor as much, and she was the boss in Inspector Lewis and things like that.

And obviously, Chris Morris, we talked about.

But there's a number of wonderful running gags that kind of repeat throughout the episodes.

And I think the recurring sequence that's in three of the episodes about it's a report from CBN, which is an American news network.

It's obviously a mickey take of CNN with the reporter Barbara Wintergreen played by Rebecca Front.

She's

Uh, not my 80s, but the 1980s.

And she was lovely and, w- you know, I met him at a friend's house, actually at the lovely Rebecca Front's house, uh, having lunch, and we, we've had lunch together several times.

And then he, I think it was actually Rebecca's husband who said, "You should get Paul on your podcast.

He's got a fantastic career." And I looked him up and went, "Blimey, yeah." And there he is.

So there is a history of it.

And obviously they had rotating characters with Rebecca Front and Dune McKicken and Patrick Marber and stuff, but that felt more like, well, that's because that's the team.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There's small moments.

Um, and then we've got Nikki Wardley, Peep Show, Benidorm.

Rebecca Front, The Thick of It.

What about the fucking annoying office lady who always asks her coworker to guess?

Yes.

You try and hand-drawn and it's just impossible.

But yeah, the fun fact about Charles Front is that his daughter is Rebecca Front, who's a famous UK actress, who, uh, is perhaps best known for being in The Thick Of It as, uh, the government minister, uh, Nicola Murray.

She was also in The Day Today back in the day.

Sh- uh, she's a very, uh, talented and, uh, funny actor.

It's got Stephen Fry.

It's got Rebecca Front.

Got Miles Jupp.

It's got, uh, who else is in it?