A REAL PAIR
everything you are describing doesn’t happen to everybody else?’
“We are not living a normal life and he made us realise it could work.”
Jon adds that he was keen the show would be universal enough to engage viewers.
“I was worried initially it would be too reliant on celebrity cameos. It had to be relatable. The jokes had to come from the relationship and living with other people and family. It became clear that was going to be the case. There are guest stars but they are people that we do know.”
Lucy adds there is a tension between what works on screen and what real life requires.
“What makes good comedy characters is they don’t change but in real life to have a successful marriage, you need to be learning things. But I quite like the idea [in the show] that we are not going to.”
The nine-part second series, which is being shown on Dave on Thursday nights in the coming weeks, follows a six-episode run for the first series last year and a two-part Christmas special.
Another meta-part of the show’s storyline relates to Lucy’s attempt to make a BBC sitcom with Tim Reid called Wet Cloth, Dry Cloth based on her real-life time working as a cleaner at Hull University.
In the first episode of the new series, she finds out that another actress is to be cast in the role of ‘Lucy from Hull’ despite her specifically writing the role for herself.
While Beaumont
What makes good comedy characters it they don’t change but in real life to have a successful marriage, you need to learn.