great mimickerey, great sets (loved Nigella Bites), good studio lighting, excellent make up, top quality wig designers, superb opening music. But who on earth was the writer? Talk about dumbing down. In fact my letter to Barry Took or whoever is being written now

Dear Anne, Maier oh Maier whatever next...

(Dan, you really are superman...great stuff mat

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2002

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-- Anonymous, April 21, 2002

I thought the Hamiltons sketch was absolutely fantastic. Just how much did the Blah-Blah man have to do with it? F***in' brill.

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2002

And have the fuckers invited me to the Bafta's? Or Montreux? Pah.

Work now underway on the World Cup special. Just need to find out if Ronni can do a good Ulrika...

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2002

Just as long as McGowan does a better Sven. Not his strongest card, that one. Bremner does it better.

So Dan, did you write the funny stuff or the crap stuff? ;-)

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2002

Tossers eh Dan.....when will they realise that it's all down to you :)

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2002

I actually didn't see it on Friday so don't know what went in. They'll have wanted the first ep to be strong, so there was probably nothing of mine in!

Lovely Alistair apparently gave us a namecheck on J Ross' chatshow last week - of course it was lost in the edit. Boo.

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2002

There was some top stuff in the show. Do you contribute individually, Dan, or is it mostly a collective effort as part of a writing team? And do you copyright sketches? I suppose you have to. Fascinating job.

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2002

Pete-

It varies. Mostly individually written, though often as a result of big ideas meetings. AMcG also rewrites a lot of stuff that comes in, so that's co-writing of a sort.

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2002

if i can make a constructive comment dan, i felt that your name wasn't big enough on the credits, and the names went past too quickly! whats al like? he seems like a good blok

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2002

Very nice, quiet...doesn't like being 'nasty' about anyone, hence the generally gentle tone of the show.

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2002

Dan...know anything about a sketch with "Kevin Keegan" as Rob Brydon's mini cab driver character Keith, as seen in Marion and Geoff?

-- Anonymous, April 24, 2002

Y-yes...why?

-- Anonymous, April 24, 2002

Just looking forward to seeing it!

-- Anonymous, April 25, 2002

I'm not totally sure whether it's made it into the show - I don't think enough of the studio audience got the reference when it was played in to them.

-- Anonymous, April 25, 2002