Unmissable show?
Better Call Saul. I’m pretty much hooked on that. For me, it tops the first few episodes of Breaking Bad. I think Bob Odenkirk is phenomenal. He was the comic turn in Breaking Bad, but he’s a fully formed, three-dimensional thing in this show.
Earliest TV memory?
Do you remember [children’s animation] Bertha? I’ve got a four-year-old son and I think it would be a great thing to show him, because it’s a wonderful lesson in strong socialist principles. Bertha is the first 3D printer: she could make anything. I remember one where she was mischievous and made lots of jigsaw puzzles but kept back one piece. Oh Bertha! She was a naughty one.
Bring back…
The Storyteller. It was made by Jim Henson, with a puppet dog and John Hurt as a gnarled old guy. They would tell classic folk stories. Really enchanting. I’m a fan of shows stopping when they’re good though. There’s something amazing about Fawlty Towers and The Office only being two series. I think, when you really nail it, you don’t need to do more than two or three. I did a show called Scrotal Recall and we’re still waiting to tell the end of our story. We might get to, we don’t know yet.
Guilty pleasure?
Game Of Thrones. My brother [Jerome Flynn] is in it. He doesn’t know what’s happening in other people’s storylines, so he’s a real geek about it. He goes to Comic-Con conventions and asks the other actors what’s going on!
Mastermind specialist subject?
Withnail And I. It’s one of the only things I can say I’ve been a proper fan of. There was a time where me and my friends would watch it once a week. And we played the Withnail And I drinking game, where we had to drink what they drank, and smoke what they smoked. It included drinking lighter fluid, though we’d only put a little bit on our palms and lick it. It ends in everybody being sick.
Brotherhood begins Tuesday, 9.30pm, Comedy Central
