Yeah, and Cillian Murphy is our baddie. I was just thinking about the other day, actually. There's so much extraordinary Irish talent around at the moment. Andrew Scott on Fleabag was wonderful. Sharon Horgan is so great, and Derry Girls.
I love Derry Girls. I love the vulgarity of it. I feel like it's happening in a few shows like Big Mouth as well. I've got a lot of friends who have said that finally someone's making shows about how disgusting girls are at that age, too.Yes, that's exactly right. Because they are. They're gross.
Gross boys have had their moment for so long,So long, and they will continue to have it.
Speaking of, The IT Crowd has really stuck around, huh?It comes up a lot and I'm always surprised by it. It must be on Netflix or something now because people ask me about it all the time.
I will say, I became more of aware of it living here than I did when I was in England.That's wild. I love that it's had this resurgence. It's almost like a cartoon, right? And people find that very engaging I feel lovely that it's a reference point, and I feel very proud of those.
And everyone's thrived since! Richard Ayoade's a big-time director, now. Matt Berry's doing Disenchanted-Yeah, Katherine Parkinson's on a bunch of great shows. And then Noel Fielding is presenting Great British Bake Off!
Which they call the Great British Baking Show here. Makes it sound less exciting, don't you think? I actually think it's a much less American renaming.Maybe they wanted to make it sound more quaint.
It's interesting how this very esoteric comedy, with a Channel Four (which aired The IT Crowd, Peep Show, and many others in the U.K.) kind of a sensibility, has translated so well.Fucking Jesse Armstrong? Unbelievable.
Who's probably, what, the most well-regarded TV writer in the world right now?That's fair, I think.
You're also immortalized forever in the biggest movie franchise of all time as a guy who's bad at dating. How do you feel about that?What one is that?
Oh right. With the hammer. I feel great. That's the clip they'll show on my In Memoriam, I'm sure. Great film. He did all the... he had the big hammer and everything. Yeah, yep. Haven't seen it.
I'm sure your character has a Wikipedia entry somewhere on one of those Marvel fan sites though, you know? They document everything.I would have thought so. I've been promised by Kevin Feige that the guy that I am comes back quite strong and lasers Thor.
Look, my agent said, "Listen, you've got a day off in two days and we've been asked to go and do this movie where you have a date with Natalie Portman." And I said sure. The show I was making wasn't paying any money, really, so it was a few quid on the side, right? Yeah. But you know those movies mean a huge amount to so many people and I do respect that.
And you're a part of it!I would go so far as to say an integral part. Page 20 of the Marvel Universe. There I am. Yeah.
Do you think you could possibly name that character?Jonathan Cranston.
Are you serious?No. I don't know. Kenneth Bateman. These are definitely totally wrong. Hang on, give me one more guess. David Robertson. [ Notices the publicist on his phone] Are you looking it up?
Publicist: Yeah. So far you're wrong. He doesn't have a last name.
I'm gonna say... Glenn?Publicist: There's a Shakespeare play about him.
Oh, Richard! Yes. Just Richard.
I am very sorry for that detour. I promise I will do my best to get people to watch Get ShortyThank you. I wish, I wish, I wish it was more out there. I think that we're just drowning in content and it's just it's sometimes hard to get your head above the parapet, but in terms of my job all I have to try and do is make a show that I'm proud of. I feel like we've done that and then it's somebody else's issue, right?
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