Your route to the stage started with funny videos on Facebook. Was there any intention of it becoming something bigger?
I’m going to put 37% of it down to boredom. I’d just had my second little one and I remember a friend of mine saying: “My god, we’re so boring now. You’re a teacher. Our lives used to be crazy.” He said: “Man you’re so funny, what we going to do about this? What’s going to happen to our lives?” I thought, let’s just start making a couple of funny bits for each other. So that’s how it started, in WhatsApp groups for our friendship circles.
Then one of my mates who I grew up with was like: “Yo man, you need to show the world this stuff.” So it got uploaded on Facebook and YouTube. I remember thinking, if five people like it, then that’s maybe proof that we can be funny on a camera. I think it got 30 likes, so nothing special. The first one or two videos got local traction in West Midlands news. I ignored it though because I didn’t think it would go anywhere because where we’re from, you don’t do this kind of stuff. Lo and behold, six months later, everything had changed.
