Matt And David

Hello rat fans.

Well we have been busy writing some Rock Profile sketches for you funny or die visitors. We’ll probably make 12 sketches in all, with each set of characters appearing twice. At the moment they are all new, but I’m not going to say who we’re going to do – that would spoil the surprise.

On Friday on BBC1 you can see two sketches that we did for Comic Relief – a Mom and Ellie-Grace one with Robbie Williams and a Computer Says No one with Catherine Tate. It was really nice to hook up with Rob again and also exciting to work with Catherine – I played her husband in a never-broadcast R2 show called ‘Hey Hey We’re The Monks’ about ten years ago and remember thinking she was immensely talented and destined for great things*. It was nice to see pics in the papers today. Once again we have coerced Robbie into drag.

Otherwise we paid a brief trip to New York last week to have some meetings about our HBO show. We had the evenings free and one night David and I went to see Will Ferrell in his brilliant show about George Bush and the next night we saw ‘God of Carnage’ by Yazmin Reza. The cast included Jeff Daniels and James Gandolfini. We met Gandolfini for a couple of minutes after the show and I was very excited indeed, as I am a Sopranos fanatic, though I think I just about managed to hide it and appear cool. I think. Mind you I remember meeting Sol Campbell in a lift once and acting all cool and then when he left the other person I was with told me he had never seen me so flustered and giddy in all my life. He then proceeded to impersonate me being all flustered and giddy at any opportunity.

On Saturday my mum took me to see Entertaining Mr Sloane as a birthday treat (and she bought me a vanilla ice cream at the interval too). It was brilliantly performed, with Imelda Staunton in particular showing once again why she is one of this country’s most acclaimed actresses**.

On Sunday I went to see the Arsenal and wouldn’t you know, they actually scored some goals. I think that might have been the most remarkable event of the week, actually.

*Also in that radio show was Bill Bailey, the great actor Graham Crowden, the woman in Citizen Smith who was later in EastEnders I think, who used to say ‘Oh Wolfie’, Avon himself – Paul Darrow, and also Howard Lew Lewis – Elmo of ‘Brush Strokes’ fame. Not bad, eh? I could get a few quid at a fan convention for their autographs.

** It’s because she’s good.