I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell. |
I loved all the camp comics of my childhood, Kenneth Williams and Frankie Howerd and John Inman, but school gave me a very bad feeling about being gay and then, when I was about 12 - bang, along came AIDS. I can't think of a single positive thing about being gay at that time. |
I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about. |
I think that's natural because it's no longer new to them. Our main approach is to carry on doing what we do, not believe our own hype and do what we've always done, which is try and make the funniest show possible. |
I was hoping that the appeal of the show would stretch beyond the anglophile and comedy-obsessed. |
I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. |
I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation. |
I'm the only gay in the village |
It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it. |
It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages. |
People will love something very much or hate something very much. But the great thing about a sketch show is that if something comes along that you don't like, something else will come along in a minute that hopefully you might like that. |
Their street signs keep getting nicked. And when we did the live tour, when we did get to Wales, it felt really good to be there. |
We were friends for four years before we started writing together, so that is the foundation on which our partnership is built. |
We're going to kill some characters off in the new series |
We're trying to fill the gaps in the collection. Several schools have opened since the museum was originally created, and for other schools, we simply don't have any items to display. |