Hi, thanks for coming back. It's another two-timer, by which I don't mean he's cheating on us.

I mean, it's the second time we've spoken to him. We had Matt Lucas, for it is he, on here when we were doing everything remotely.

How lovely to get him into the studio. And we didn't really stop talking.

We have a shared history of sorts.

We worked on Little Britain together.

I scripted edited the second series,

The Little Britain, which really amounted to no one going,

this bit could be a bit shorter,

or this bit could be a bit longer.

That was about my involvement.

They were and are a creative powerhouse. or this bit could be a bit longer. That was about my involvement.

They were and are a creative powerhouse.

We talk about all things.

We talk about sitting around waiting on sets of big films.

And he seems to take it in his stride far more than I do.

We talk about specifically his book, The boy who slept through Christmas, which is his Christmas book out now in paperback with a difference. It is a musical

novel. He will explain why. Enough of my yakking. It's Brighton and the wonderful Matt Lucas.

Do I talk to this camera like you talk to that camera?

Is that presumptuous of me because I'm not the host?

I think, yeah, stay in your lane. Stay in my lane, okay. No, I was only looking at that camera. I look at it for the introduction. Maybe for some little, little, aside. A bit like Bruce Fuller. Do you double out with David Wellies? That sort of thing. Michael Barrymore used to do that a lot on Strike It Lucky and Strike It Rich.

What's a hot sport not?

Yeah. Those bits at the beginning of Strike It Lucky when he would talk for however long to the contestants, seemingly building stuff from absolutely nothing. I was on his show. Which one? Barrymore. Yeah. I played my, my, my first, but when I started out as a stand-up when I was 18, I did it

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