Stratospherically- successful comedy duo David Mitchell and Robert Webb have been busy. Ridiculously busy.

The Peep Show stars have just finished filming the second series of their sketch-show hoot-a-thon, That Mitchell and Webb Look, and are set to release the first on DVD on the 29th of October.

AOL Entertainment yanked them to one side and made them to talk to us about the show, the sitcom, those much-unloved computer ads and why they're looking forward to a slightly more peaceful 2008...

You're very good mates in real life. Does this make you the comedy Ant and Dec?

Mitchell: Well, Ant and Dec have houses right next to each other don't they?
Webb: Yeah, we're about 100 houses apart.
M: The fact that we have to work together means we have to give each other a bit of space. So I don't think so, quite, but it's good to be friends as well as working together. It'd be pretty soul-destroying not to be in the long-term.
W: Yeah, that'd be awful.

So the similarity ends there? You can't see yourselves ever moving into light entertainment?

W: Well I've got absolutely nothing against light entertainment, and as you mention them Ant and Dec do that very well. But who knows what the future holds. We may end up presenting Celebrities on Ice. But not in the immediate future.

Celebrities on Ice?

W: Yeah. Celebrities on blocks of ice. We'll see who gets cold feet first.

Your sketch show is based on your radio series - was it difficult to make the shift to TV?

M: Yes. It was harder than I think we thought. We felt we'd had two series of this radio show, and it had gone down very well, and that we had six hours of material we really liked which had only got to make a series that was three hours long. But we looked at a lot of our favourite radio material and realised that it wouldn't work on television, or not without heavy redrafting. You can't just have people sitting and talking for long periods on television, unless it's the news. So we ended up having to redraft things and write new things to a greater extent than we thought.
W: And redrafting is always a bit fiddly. You don't quite know how much, or how many visual characters to add, and whether it'll be all a bit crowbarred.
M: But making the second series, which we've just finished, was oddly an easier process because we didn't have all this radio material we were trying to use. And I think we made the right choice with the first series first to keep what we used from the radio show relatively low.
W: We really enjoyed making the radio show, and we even went back to do a third one because the audience was so nice and friendly.
M: Yeah you're always going to want to do radio. Radio is a slightly more forgiving medium.
W: But we had noticed that sometimes big comedies start on radio and make that move, so yeah we had that in mind.