‘We were smoking a lot of weed’: how we made People Just Do Nothing Culture | The Guardian

‘It took us two years to do five episodes. When we posted them on YouTube, a few students watched it. Then we got an email from the producer who had made The Office’

I met Hugo Chegwin, who plays Beats, at university. I used to rap and he made beats. We were watching documentaries that weren’t meant to be funny but had amazing characters, as well as things like The Office, Peep Show and Alan Partridge. Instead of studying we would film ourselves doing prank calls in silly voices in his bedroom just to make each other laugh.

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