When were you last so drunk that you fell over?

W: Falling over? Quite a few years now.
M: Yeah, you get better and better at somehow staying on your pins. I've probably had a stumble, but not completely and irrevocably lost balance. At New Year, 2002 I'm guessing, I got extremely drunk and basically my first memory of the year was throwing up a load of White Russians on some steps. Fortunately the rest of the year was better than that.

You're having a friend over for dinner. What do you cook?

W: I can sort of make pasta and a thing. But it's a thing out of a jar. I know how to put some pasta in boiling water and wait five minutes. It's like a new taboo - I don't like cooking. I like eating, but it's better when someone else has cooked it.
M: I'm the same really.

What other fashionable things don't you like?

W: Sushi. Simon Cowell.
M: Facebook.
W: Ridiculous coffees. We're getting into grumpy old man territory, although I find that very comfortable.

Well, to take you out of your comfort zone, who's the loveliest person you've ever met?

W: Well I'd better say my wife really. But [Peep Show writers] Sam Bains and Jesse Armstrong are unusually lovely people, as is Olivia Colman [who plays Sophie in Peep Show], so it's good that we get to work with them.

Finally, the 5th of November is coming. Who's on your bonfire?

M: Ah, the old murder question.

Well, I wouldn't say murder.

M: Well, if somebody had to be badly burned, I don't think they should be, but if they had to be, how about...
W: Well I'm quite disappointed now, because what I usually say is Jeremy Kyle. But now that a judge has had a pop at him, it's very unoriginal.

Well who's on the mental pyre?

M: Noel Edmonds.

His jumpers would go up nicely.

W: Yeah! Oh, George Osborne is quite difficult to watch.
M: You used to say the Respect guy...
W: Ah, yes, George Galloway.

He'd probably appreciate the publicity.

M: Oh, he'd go on about it wouldn't he? "They tried to burn me..." OK, we did.

What was the last lie you told?

W: When I was talking to the previous interviewer. I can't remember what it was actually, but I didn't tell the truth all the way through it.
M: I must have told one today. I've certainly told half-truths.
W: Oh yeah, I told him I had my fingers in my ears when I didn't.
M: Ah yes, it was a phone interview and he tried to do a Mr and Mrs thing and asked one of us to put our fingers in our ears while the other one answered questions. And neither of us did. We're so rock and roll.

The first series of That Mitchell and Webb Look is released on DVD on the 29th of October. Also, Peep Show Series 4 and the Peep Show Series 1-4 Boxset are out to own on DVD on the 5th of November.

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