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Simon: ‘One of my abiding images of the first series is that poor disabled girl in her wheelchair. With the props guy up a stepladder, with a stack of Frisbees, and the director going, “No, harder! In the face!”’…Oh, and there was  that scene in the caravan club episode where Joe has to lick the girl’s ear…that girl was quite young…’

Joe: ‘She was sixteen! She was legal!’ 

James: ‘What about that scene you had to “prepare” for?’

[They all shout over each other as they try to explain the scene in which Joe’s character, Simon, is supposed to have an erection: on asking how they were going to achieve the effect, co-writer Ian’s advice was simply to ‘get an erection’, to which Joe just agreed without realising it was a joke. He hasn’t been allowed to forget it.]

Joe: ‘You do whatever’s necessary for the shot!’

Simon: ‘It’s ironic, isn’t it, but no one’s asked you to have an erection in this series, have they?’

Read the full interview in the May issue of Maxim, on sale now

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