The chronology that I have for you, that I know about you, begins with Rowan Atkinson. You mean the work chronology, yes, all right. At a writers' meeting for a revue. He never said anything, he just came along because he had an instinct that that was where his talent lay. Then I wrote the second series of that with a guy called Ben Elton, who's a fabulous writer.
BEAN is the strangest thing.
There are no words. And it works best, I think, when there isn't huge technical crockery. What happens is you've got Mr. Bean in an extremely simple comprehensible situation, and then he messes things up or finds extraordinary ways of making himself comfortable. So I do it by standing in my room at home in front of a mirror. The only way to do it is to act it out.