Unmissable show?
Game Of Thrones. I love fantasy stuff, and fantasy stuff with an occasional arse is even better! It’s not jumped the shark yet, but when you start off with dragons and stone men and stuff it’s quite hard to jump the shark anyway. I’m really loving it.
Earliest TV memory?
My nana used to tape The Simpsons when it aired on Sky. We’d get the VHS tapes – my dad would courier them from Nana’s house to us – and we’d watch them on Sunday nights. There’s an episode where Homer’s sinking slowly in a prehistoric swamp and says: “I’ll just reach in and pull my legs out, and now I’ll pull my arms out with my face.” And I remember just laughing my heart out at that. That was a really early TV memory for me.
Bring back…
I would die of pleasure if The Day Today or Brass Eye came back. Though there’s something really special about the fact that they only did one series of each. If anything, it sometimes looks like Sky News or BBC News 24 have taken the Day Today and used it as a model for how they present news. It’s gotten so bombastic, it’s totally gone beyond the point of parody, which is guess is why they couldn’t bring The Day Today back now.
Mastermind specialist subject?
Seventeenth-century London. For some reason I got really obsessed with Samuel Pepys and his diaries when I read them, and with that period. I was probably a man with a wig and a frock coat in a past life! I found bits of it really funny. There’s a bit where he argues with his wife and she punishes him by not having a bath for three months!
Guilty pleasure?
I really enjoy 24 Hours In A&E. I always cry my heart out at it. I feel it’s a guilty pleasure because sometimes I do feel like I’m watching someone go through an awful moment in their lives – hit by a motorcycle or something – and I’m sat there eating crisps watching it.
Undercover begins Tuesday 16 June, 9pm on Dave
