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He is a hero of Brydon’s – so much so that the latter seems

He is a hero of Brydon’s – so much so that the latter seems to have taken on his characteristics. When I played back my tape recording after the interview, I noticed just how much Brydon sounds like Corbett delivering one of his stories on The Two Ronnies.”I love his voice – the rhythms of his voice,” says Brydon. And he went: ‘Hoo, hee, good lord, yes, hee – I hope I’m up to it Hee hee hee.’ It was very sweet.” Ah, yes, Corbett. I said these two women come out of your room and it’s obvious you’ve just had your way with them.

It’s not a chat show – he’s going to go out speed dating, going to meet body-language experts The idea is to bring the character out. I love that character…”Brydon is also penning a sitcom called Home with David Walliams from Little Britain. “We play brothers and we run an old people’s home,” says Brydon. “Ronnie Corbett is the only male resident.He’s a Hugh Hefner-type figure wearing a silk dressing gown and shagging all the women there.”I was talking Ronnie through the the draft of the first episode.

“Oddly enough it’s the person who, as far as I can tell, works the least.”I ask whyDirector’s Commentary ended up on ITV1 rather than BBC2. Isn’t it strange, I wonder, that Jane Root [the Controller of BBC2] didn’t want something new from her prot?? “You’d be surprised how hard it is getting something away,” he says, “unless your surname is Gervais and your first name is Ricky.”He is, however, doing The Keith Barrett Show for BBC2, in which Marion and Geoff’s tragicomic chauffeur is given a TV show. “He’s hosting a show about relationships – someone at BBC2 has spotted his video diaries. His production company, Jones the Film (Brydon’s real surname is Jones), also owns the rights to 32 episodes of Bonanza, and he’s not quite sure what he’s going to do with the rest of them.Then began the laborious process of getting the permission of the individual actors involved Tantalisingly he won’t identify the one actor who refused. The great John Cleese quote about Cook is that to write a great three-minute sketch it would take him three minutes because it would just come out.”Since it was Granada that eventually commissioned Director’s Commentary, Brydon had his pick of the extensive Granada library from which to choose his old shows. In the first episode, there is a wonderful riff about an actress in The Duchess of Duke Street.