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“We didn’t even really know the rules we were rebelling against,” says Ash Atalla, the show’s producer, who has since brought to life a raft of brilliant post-Office sitcoms, from People Just Do Nothing (a mockumentary about a crew of deeply misguided performers) to Stath Lets Flats (a lo-fi cringe-comedy revolving around a needy, socially inept man at work). “I was very inexperienced, Stephen and Ricky had never written anything before, so at the centre of the show were three people who, in terms of track record, had no right to be there.” It was a good starting point from which to upend conventions, the first one being who was allowed to make sitcoms in the first place. “Ricky being someone that wasn’t trained and having this more punk attitude, that was an inspiration for us,” says Allan Mustafa, who plays MC Grindah in People Just Do Nothing. “We thought: ‘Oh, we could do something like this.’”

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