Robert Popper, who has worked on some of the biggest UK sitcoms of the past two decades from Peep Show to The Inbetweeners, is only too aware that comedy is all about timing.
In the script for his new show I Hate You, which airs on Channel 4 next week, he put in a joke about the Queen, breaking his rule of not referencing current affairs or a celebrity in his sitcoms. “If you mention a famous person, you don’t know what’s going to happen to them and suddenly that joke has a different meaning.”
