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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: One of my favorite shows of last year was Colin

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Speaker 2: from Account, a small, quirky Australian show that has taken

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Speaker 2: the world by storm. Brilliant. There's a brand new series

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Speaker 2: about to drop and the stars of the show a

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Speaker 2: real life couple as well. Patrick and Harriet Hello.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, thanks for having us.

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Speaker 2: How did you manage to do this because a lot

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Speaker 2: of people have tried and no one has And to

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Speaker 2: make an Australian to make an Australian show that isn't

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Speaker 2: cringe worthy. It's cringey because of the subject matter and

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Speaker 2: the stories, but it's not cringe worthy. How did you

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Speaker 2: take the cheese out?

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Speaker 1: I think that comedy can kind of die when there's

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Speaker 1: too many hands on it and too many folks giving

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Speaker 1: notes like comedy by committee.

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Speaker 3: Type things, because comedy is such, you know, it's so

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Speaker 3: much about your point of view, one like this, one.

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Speaker 1: Perspective, and the more unique that perspective is, the kind

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Speaker 1: of the more it hits, I think. And people just

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Speaker 1: left this own truly Binge Foxteel, Easy Tiger. They supported

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Speaker 1: us all the way, gave a couple of notes and

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Speaker 1: just let us do something and it worked.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we just sort of wrote stuff to entertained ourselves.

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Speaker 3: Stuff we thought it was funny, and.

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Speaker 1: Then they did.

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Speaker 3: They did a great job of giving us a long leash,

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Speaker 3: I mean occasion they try and keep us on story.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there was always some really good notes in terms

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Speaker 1: of story and stuff like that, but in terms of

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Speaker 1: the silliness or you know, kind of big risks that

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Speaker 1: we talk, they just let us do it. He's really like.

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Speaker 2: Drops to them because you wrote one episode a piece,

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Speaker 2: kind of, didn't you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's some similar to what we did in season

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Speaker 1: one season when we kind of collaborated, but we're just

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Speaker 1: for a bit more time for this time, so we

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Speaker 1: really kind of split it up a bit. But we

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Speaker 1: have like one brain Patty and I.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, we'd sit down like and plot out the

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Speaker 3: whole season, stuff that we want to see, stuff that

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Speaker 3: we want characters to do, and so we do all

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Speaker 3: that together. But then to actually sit down and write,

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Speaker 3: then we do that separately.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: When I first watched the show, I actually said, gee,

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Speaker 4: would make a nice real life coupled but thank you No,

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Speaker 4: But I actually thought that I thought, you guys, you

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Speaker 4: guys match each other and all that sort of stuff,

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Speaker 4: and I thought, Wow, what great actor is There's a

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Speaker 4: real chemistry there. And then I thought, in a way,

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Speaker 4: does that is that bad to hear that? Do you

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Speaker 4: think I'll hang on? I mean, I need to act

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Speaker 4: with someone else, but I hate so I can prove

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Speaker 4: that I'm such a great actor.

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Speaker 1: Well we've done a bit of that already.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we've got to do that as well.

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Speaker 1: It's really nice to work opposite your person. But also

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Speaker 1: it's not a it's not for gone conclusion that you

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Speaker 1: would have chemistry because also we're tired, we're raising a toddler.

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Speaker 1: We are like running around like headless chickens trying to

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Speaker 1: produce it as well as write it and star in it.

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Speaker 1: And you know, just it could have like it could

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Speaker 1: have been dead between us.

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Speaker 3: It was a huge relief when we when we showed

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Speaker 3: it to some friends, they're like, you guys have got

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Speaker 3: good chemistry, Like, oh, thank god, that would be embarrassing.

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Speaker 2: Is the dog lovely or is the dog a pain

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Speaker 2: in the neck.

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Speaker 1: The dog's amazing. He's he's he's.

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Speaker 3: The most amenable of all my closeters.

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Speaker 1: He very professional.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a very good boy, and he will work

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Speaker 3: the treat.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and his name is actually it's not Colin though,

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Speaker 4: is it.

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Speaker 2: No, you guys make that ex Yeah, yeah, we absolutely.

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Speaker 3: We actually had a dog for a brief time back

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Speaker 3: in the day, like two weeks. We fostered the dog

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Speaker 3: for a minute and we called him Colin from Account and.

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Speaker 1: That's where that whole bit was from. It was kind

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Speaker 1: of like literally Thebata and something Patty and I did

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Speaker 1: on the couch years ago with this foster dog like

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Speaker 1: Colin Colin from count from Lord Big my jart loll

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Speaker 1: and then we put it in a script. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And do you find the Australian sense of humor, as

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Speaker 2: you say, the undercutting, the underplaying, how it's wonderful that

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Speaker 2: that has translated so well around the world. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think different different countries capturing different stuff. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I think one of the reasons that went so well

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Speaker 3: in the UK is that we have a very shared

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Speaker 3: sensibility of not ever allowing anything get too saccharin or

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Speaker 3: too earnest and undercut it.

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Speaker 1: And similarly though with the US, you know, they've got

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Speaker 1: such a huge history of those multicam shows where as

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Speaker 1: soon as something gets too smaaltzy, someone walks in and

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Speaker 1: says a joke and then there's canned laughter, Like everybody

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Speaker 1: does it, it's just in different ways. And I think

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Speaker 1: we just happened to ground out in realness, which helps it.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, we try it, and Harry is really

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Speaker 3: good at this, but like not letting us write a

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Speaker 3: line of that sounds like TV dialogue. Yeah, she's got

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Speaker 3: a really good you know, bullshit meter is what I

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Speaker 3: call it. And yeah, it's got a great BSM. And

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Speaker 3: and so we finally get away with more kind of

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Speaker 3: comedy and stuff as long as it sounds like something

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Speaker 3: a human would actually say, Yeah, we're.

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Speaker 1: Allowed to send it off.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's great you guys are educating Australian audience

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Speaker 4: on a sitcom, because really, I'm off the top of

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Speaker 4: my head when I think about Australian sitcoms, I always

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Speaker 4: just go back dad, Hey Dad, and then before that,

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Speaker 4: hey Dad, don't and then before that Kingswood Country. I

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Speaker 4: think about Kingswood Country. But that was but it was

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Speaker 4: it was that live audience vibe and what.

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Speaker 2: You were flapstick.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't you just watch it and it's exactly that.

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Speaker 4: It's funny, but at the same time.

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Speaker 2: It's it's sad, it is, it really is, and I

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Speaker 2: can't wait to see season two. It's out now, actually

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Speaker 2: on It's happening.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's happening. This is a mix of like the

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Speaker 1: sitcom and the rom com, a real.

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Speaker 2: Com, yeah real, calm real, like relationship, Colm, real, calm real.

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Speaker 3: You're welcome.

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Speaker 4: Put that next to you, Put that next to your

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Speaker 4: B s M.

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Speaker 2: It's so nice to talk to you both. Congratulations for

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Speaker 2: all the accolades coming away. I cannot wait to see

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Speaker 2: it on which is in success. Absolutely, thank you for

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Speaker 2: joining us.

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Speaker 3: Thank you guys. It's beautiful. Thanks for having it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, bye,