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Michael Spicer: ‘Monty Python taught me that authority figures must earn our respect’

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How did you get into comedy? I was submitting sketches to Spitting Image when I was 17 and making my own sketches pre-internet. But I guess in terms of my actual break, that didn’t happen until [online political sketch series] The Room Next Door . Was that an overnight success? I was watching a particularly bad interview with Boris Johnson and jotted down the concept of an adviser next door who was pulling his hair out over what was being said. I then filmed it after dinner, posted it before I went to bed and the next morning it was in the millions. So that is literally an overnight success, isn’t it? There were other disastrous interviews taking place that week which got highlighted on social media and I realised the character could be in the room next door to literally any situation at any point in time, anywhere. There was some longevity in it, as opposed to other sketches I’ve done in the past that went viral.…

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