Sunday Mail (UK)

CARDS AND WHY HIS SON TELLS THE BEST STORIES

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series of his sketch show despite pressure ssure from Beeb bosses. He said: “Once youou get it in your head you’re f inished with something, to go back, it hurts.

“I’d like to get into sitcoms now.w. I wrote a pilot – knockback. I wrotete another one – knockback. Then didd a Falconhoof one and thought, ‘ He’se’s one of people’s favourite characters’, s’, and it was more mainstream. But t that got knocked back.

“If that gets knocked back, what at chance have I got?”

Limmy’s penning a follow-up to o his best-selling book Daft Wee Stories es and is in talks with BBC Scotland d about a new show.

He said: “I’m kind of talking to BBC Scotland right now about some kind of sketch show.

“A lot of my fans have said they preferred my original stuff beforee telly so we’re talking about me doingg a show with just me and a video o camera – no crew. They seem up foror it but you never know.”

But Limmy has plans for Daniel to follow in his comedy footsteps.

He said: “We’ve been making wee videos and I lie in bed at night with him andnd we make up stories.

“When I got bored of telling him stories,ories, I’d say, ‘Right, you tell me a story’, andd he’d make up stuff no bother.

“This could be my investment­nt for the future. He could be payingg for my retirement home or paying offff my mortgage. I want to be in a high qualityual­ity nursing home with good wine to make up for lost time.”

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