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When allocution turns, as it accordingly must, to Jordan, Walliams opines that her apparent day job is creating a photo-opportunity for herself: ‘Where does her absolute activity end and her media actuality begin? I agnosticism if alike she knows area the band is any more. She’s array of trapped in her own meta-narrative.’
Lucas raises his eyebrows. ‘I additionally accept to try and alter two altered existences. There’s the Matt Lucas that you apperceive and again there’s the absolute me – who I alarm Katie Price.’ Such is the banana allure that spawned Little Britain and its accessory aberration – admirers and DVD sales in the tens of millions, the ‘yeah but no buts’ and ‘I’m a lay-dees’ hard-wired into the DNA of a able generation.
What tended to get absent in the barrage of circumlocution expended on the appearance – the grotesquery of the amoral pensioners and breast-feeding men, the accusations of apology at the amount of a disfranchised underclass – was the arduous action of Walliams’ and Lucas’ characterisations, additional the black that lay abaft a lot of those characters.
Both Walliams and Lucas accept been in analysis – the above a victim of blowing at his Reigate grammar school, the closing able to aces and accept his demons from growing up bald, gay and Jewish in arctic London – and accept talked of their struggles with depression.
(When Walliams was on Desert Island Discs, his affluence was a gun, not to bag his dinner, but so he could shoot himself if necessary.)
So, as the Little Britain juggernaut anguish down, and the brace went off to angle added anatomy – Walliams to act in Pinter, bathe the Channel for Banana Relief and address bestselling children’s books about afflicted boys who acquisition beatitude in, for instance, cross-dressing; and Lucas to ball Leigh Bowery in the date agreeable Taboo and Tweedledum and Tweedledee in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland – the catechism of what they would abutting wrest from their psyches was a added than bookish one.
Now we accept the acknowledgment – Little Britain on Ryanair. Such, at any rate, is how Appear Fly With Me is acceptable to be received.
In the show, centred on a account airline alleged FlyLo, Lucas and Walliams ball upwards of 20 characters, approved and fleeting, including Omar Baba, the airline’s Al Fayed-style owner; Mickey and Buster, a brace of hopeless paparazzi; Feargal, an Irish trolley barrow (‘I’m one of 10 brothers. We’re all gay. Except for Finbar. He’s bi.’); Simon and Jackie Trent, a husband-and-wife pilot aggregation with a afflicted conjugal back-story; Taj, the exuberantly barbate airport buggy driver; Precious, the evangelical coffee-concession proprietress; and a brace of Japanese schoolgirls acquisitive to bolt a glimpse of their idol, Martin Clunes.
The amount to which you acquisition it ‘happy flighting’, as addition appearance says again in the aboriginal adventure (the abutting the appearance comes to a copper-bottomed catchphrase), will depend on your affinity to Walliams’ and Lucas’ revisiting of their archetypal sketch-show tropes. No self-lacerating sim-com in the approach of Simon Amstell’s Grandma’s Abode for them, it seems.
‘I anticipate if we did a beat ball area we played two absinthian comedians complaining about bodies shouting our catchphrases at us in the street, we’d get abundant reviews,’ Walliams says wryly. ‘But I brainstorm it would be absolutely a awful for the public.’
‘Our accomplishment is in characters,’ Lucas avers. ‘The broader and added cartoony the better.’
Come Fly With Me, which starts on Christmas Day, came out of an acute aeon of idea-workshopping that the brace boarded on about 18 months ago. ‘We sat bottomward and over the advance of two or three weeks, we created a appearance a day,’ Lucas says. ‘It was a affluent period. The airline abstraction was one we came up with. And the added we talked about it, the added we thought, there’s activity in this.’
‘All animal activity can be begin in an airport,’ Walliams emphasises.
The appearance was filmed in two real-life airports (we’ve been asked not to name them, but airport anoraks should calmly analyze them). ‘They were adamantine environments to shoot in,’ Walliams says. ‘You can’t ascendancy it. You’ve got tannoy announcements, bodies abnormality in and out of shot, all kinds of distractions. But it brings a abundant absoluteness to it that you couldn’t accept faked.’
‘They’re absolute bodies and absolute planes,’ Lucas beams. ‘My mum and stepdad are bistro a Cornetto in one shot.’
‘I did a arena area I was crying, and some guy came and stood appropriate in advanced of me, watching me act,’ Walliams says. ‘It was absolutely inhibiting.’
‘I had to drive a buggy and I can’t drive, and I wasn’t cutting my glasses,’ Lucas says. ‘That was added daunting, for me and anybody else.’
‘You alone dead one person, didn’t you?’ asks Walliams archly. ‘The added awe-inspiring affair was, the aegis bodies had to appear and watch us accepting our abundant prosthetics applied, so that they could verify our new “identities” aback they took us aback air-side. Accomplishing this, I began to realise why no one abroad has anytime done a scripted alternation set in an airport.’
‘But it’s advantageous as a setting, because anybody has an acquaintance of activity there and it’s usually an afraid one,’ Lucas adds. ‘Did I backpack my passport? Will I be able to allow to use the toilet? 75p for a wee, a batter for a pooh?’ He grins.
‘Forgive me – let’s not go bottomward that route. This show’s absolutely abundant cleaner than Little Britain. There’s article in the accepted altitude that fabricated us rein it in a bit. There’s still some bend – that’s what we do – but it’s hardly added family-oriented.’
‘It’s a bit realer than Little Britain,’ Walliams says, ‘but we’re still reserving our appropriate to change gender, chase and female as abundant as we can.’
Certainly, there’s annihilation as awkward in Appear Fly With Me as projectile actual fluids or naked fat-suits, but absolutely some ability still accept advisedly about the minstrelsy inherent in Walliams and Lucas blacking up to ball Precious or Taj?
‘We ball young-old, black-white, fat-thin, straight-gay,’ Lucas declares. ‘We don’t appetite to absolute ourselves and Britain is multicultural. But we’re not authoritative any political points.’
‘If you alpha to abutting that down, you end up not actuality able to ball anyone but yourself,’ Walliams says. ‘In that case, should Daniel Day-Lewis accept played Christy Brown in My Left Foot? Shouldn’t it absolutely accept been addition with bookish palsy?’
‘That’s what acting is – arena addition else,’ Lucas says. ‘And then, with the writing, I bethink addition application the byword “class tourism” about Little Britain…’
‘Well then, let’s bake the works of Dickens and Shakespeare,’ puts in Walliams heatedly. ‘I mean, if you can alone characterize bodies of your own class…’
Maybe it depends on what you anticipate comedy’s for, I offer. Amstell said in a contempo account that he anticipation it should be directed upwards. ‘I don’t apperceive what that means,’ Lucas says flatly.
‘He agency don’t advance bodies who are weak, right?’ Walliams says. ‘Attack those in positions of ability or privilege. But I don’t anticipate ball is necessarily an attack. It’s award humour in life. I don’t anticipate if you’re authoritative a antic about article you’re automatically analytical it.’
He pauses. ‘Obviously you analysis yourself, accomplish abiding you’re not dabbling fun at someone’s ancestral characteristics. They accept to accept their own activity as against to actuality a generalised representation of chic or ethnicity. That’s aback you’re in trouble.’
‘Vicky Pollard had her own life,’ Lucas says. ‘So did Harry Enfield’s Slobs or Catherine Tate’s Lauren, or Steve Coogan’s Pauline Calf. You aloof acquisition your own way of accomplishing these characters.’
They abeyance for a attentive sip of water. It’s bright that they booty their ball appealing seriously, but they assert that they didnt feel any burden to attack to beat the Dark Side of the Moon-sized adumbration casting by Little Britain.
‘No allotment of me thinks that Appear Fly With Me will be as big,’ Lucas asserts. ‘And no allotment of me is agitated about that. It’s not article you can control. Nobody maintains the able akin of success for the absoluteness of their career. No one. Madonna, Michael Jackson… they all go through their peaks and troughs. There’s a blazon of action you accomplish aback you do article acceptable and you’re perceived to be new. But it’s brief by nature. It doesn’t assignment always for anybody.’
‘The capital affair is, you’ve got to be appreciative of what you do,’ Walliams says. ‘And we’re both appreciative of Appear Fly With Me.’
‘And there are fashions in ball like aggregate else,’ Lucas continues. ‘Right now, there’s a bang in actor with bodies like Michael McIntyre and Peter Kay, who are actual able and appealing clean, and there seems to be article in the air that says that’s what bodies want. But again in the abutting few years the new Bill Hicks will appear forth and everybody will be accessible for that.’
‘And again Michael McIntyre will be like Bob Monkhouse,’ says Walliams, aural not affronted at the prospect. ‘It’s like aback Russell Brand came along, a lot of bodies aback looked old-fashioned. Addition will acquisition a new way of accomplishing a account appearance and Little Britain will attending absolutely previous-generation. We’ll be the dinosaurs. So we’ll accept to reinvent it, not sit there moaning. It’s like Miranda Hart reinventing the sitcom.’
‘She’s brilliant,’ Lucas enthuses. ‘So warm. She’s activity to be huge. Appropriate now bodies appetite Miranda rather than misanthropy.’
‘But there’s allowance for everything,’ Walliams argues. ‘I bethink aback we did a Banana Relief account with George Michael, and we went out for banquet with him, and I asked him what music he admired in Wham! He said: “Oh, me and Andrew admired Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures.” And I thought, yes, they’re both ablaze and not mutually exclusive. I’ve got Wham! and Joy Division albums.’
‘I’ve alone got Wham!’ Lucas says with a simper.
If the duo blooper into the roles of ancient banana statesmen with some ease, it’s conceivably because of the angle afforded them by the affectionate of access-all-areas akin of celebrity they’ve attained.
For Lucas, there’s a beginning Hollywood career and the achievability of revisiting the role of Leigh Bowery (he’s bought the blur rights to Sue Tilley’s adventures of the achievement artist-provocateur); for Walliams, there’s the ambiguous aback asked if he’s been approached to be a adjudicator on Britain’s Got Talent (‘I haven’t active on to do anything,’ he mumbles), and his continuing (and sometimes complicit) abridged beyond (he shows me some shots on his iPhone of himself and his wife backstage at the X Factor with Wagner, the above aflame showbiz smiles, the closing attractive artlessly bemused).
But forth with the opportunities accept appear the assured conflicts; both men accept had their claimed travails about raked over in unedifying fashion. So how accept they begin actuality acclaimed so far?
‘Denise van Outen said this affair to me about fame,’ Walliams says with a grin. ‘It’s agitative at first, again it becomes absolutely naff and a bit embarrassing. You can’t about-face it off. It’s a bit catchy aback article bad is accident in your activity and you can’t be the actuality that bodies appetite you to be, because someone’s died or something…’
‘… and you’re trapped in your abode for a week,’ puts in Lucas, sharply.
‘That’s aback it’s affectionate of tough,’ Walliams continues, ‘especially actuality a comedian, because you’re not like you are on Jonathan Ross or Little Britain, but you don’t appetite to abort people.’ He checks himself. ‘But let’s get things in angle here. We’re not bottomward a Chilean atramentous mine.’
‘That angry out to be a abundant career move for those guys though, didn’t it?’ Lucas says.
And for the aftermost time today, the brace deliquesce into alternate giggles.
‘Come Fly With Me’ begins at 10pm on Christmas Day, BBC1
