What have you got in the works at the moment, then, apart from releasing the first series of That Mitchell and Webb Look on DVD?

W: Well we've made the second series of That Mitchell and Webb Look, and that will air in February, and next year we'll do the fifth series of Peep Show, and then after that we'll start on the third series of the sketch show. So we've got two nice big chunks of stuff for next year.

Another tour?

W: We've got no firm plans.
M: I imagine we'll do one at some point in the next two or three years... but...
W: We're not in a hurry at the moment.

You certainly don't sound very eager to...

M: Well it's very, very tiring, and we've been very, very busy for ages. At the moment we're very conscious of not squeezing... we've spent a long time squeezing things in. We want our next year to feel normal, and have enough time to do all the things that we've said we're going to do. If we tried to do a tour next year, that would be going down the path of being too busy again. The great thing is that once people start knowing who you are, suddenly from nowhere you get lots of offers of work and things you can do, and a lot of them seem really exciting. But you have to steel yourself to say no to a lot of them because they're not primarily what you do. Primarily what we do is Peep Show and our sketch show - and those have to be our priorities.
W: Not turning up at Gordon Ramsay's restaurant and having a chat, for example, and all the fluff around the edges of what we do.
M: You can totally fill your year with doing the things around the edges, and then they suddenly disappear. So I definitely want to tour again, but I definitely want to have the space to do it properly. Last time we were having to rush back to London half the time to film something in the morning, and it's just not a happy life. It's horrible to feel unhappy when things are going well.

Over the past couple of years, your profiles have raised enormously. Do you worry about over-exposure?

W: Well apart from turning down the fluffy things, it's not something you can particularly control all the time. Certainly in autumn 2006, the film [Magicians] was coming out and the ad campaign was going on and we were doing lots of publicity for the tour... so, yeah, we were all over the place. But you can't really go "Oh we'll turn down a series of Peep Show because I think people have seen enough of us for the time being". You have to take the work when it comes.