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They recall their schooldays — when, Watson says, Oliver gravitated towards her because she was part of that year's collection of oddballs — and they make each other, and me, laugh a lot in conversation, with dry and self-deprecating asides. Watson's parents are teachers, while Oliver has an engineer father and and businesswoman mother. After university, between improv and acting work Watson has appeared in Lead Balloon and The IT Crowd, Oliver in Doc Martin and Peep Show , they worked in boring temp jobs, characters from which feed into their wide range of voices and accents, before starting their professional partnership in The comics, both of whose partners are actors, acknowledge that their enduring friendship is key to the professional partnership.

But we are in synch emotionally and seem to have our ups and downs together, so we can see when the other is stressed and needs to take a break. They mostly write separately then edit each other's work, and if one doesn't like a sketch it doesn't go in. They rarely have a disagreement. Watson says: "Egos can come into it when we both want to play a part but it's usually obvious who plays what.

The friendship comes first and we don't argue. They are like two sisters, two old ladies and two toddlers at the same time.

The talent is there in abundance, but getting it to work under the TV microscope is another matter. It is patently impossible to please everyone. TV Comedies rarely have the luxury of being discovered naturally. And sketch shows are scrutinised down to the last punchline.

Yet it often feels like luck who gets the breaks. Of the current club crop, I'm surprised Idiots of Ants , whose gigs are so polished they resemble TV programmes, have not had major screen exposure yet. Looking back, I always wondered why Hudson and Pepperdine did not move from Radio 4 to television.

If not there are plenty of acts queuing up to take their place.