Just thinking about the producer that told me that people from private schools are better at comedy because "it's an intellectual activity."

Funniest thing she ever said.

Let's not get distracted though, the real enemy of British comedy writers are British comedy writer-performers.

The first time PhoneShop got pitched, a commissioner (not Shane who actually commissioned it) rejected the script pages that were sent as "no one reads scripts. Better to have a taster tape that we can all just watch."

Over the last five years, of the twenty shows nominated for Bafta best comedy awards, only four have been written by people who don't feature in the show. They're all great and absolutely deserve their nominations but where's the next John Sullivan getting his break?

(obviously writer-performers are not actually the enemy of writers - that was just a joke. The enemy of a writer is all other humans)

Enough of this, here's a photo of my Grandad