Their new film is an affectionate spoof of action movies, but they’re equally at home waxing lyrical about the comedic pleasures of The Young Ones. Our piercing questionnaire reduces funnymen Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to tears.
What’s the most rock’n’roll thing you’ve done today?
Simon Is it rock‘n‘roll to be stuck in traffic?
Which time in history would you love to have lived? And why? Nick I would have to say the Victorian era. Everyone was a lot more _ :. courteous towards each other and you i C‘ k had vampire gentlemen. Simon The 603, so I could have the kind of fun and discovery that a lot of our parents had.
Your house is on fire, loved ones and pets are safe, you have a 1 chance to go and retrieve one thing, what would it be? i S My laptop. ‘ N I've got a painting by a Scottish artist called Joe Gillespie, and I really love that. It cost a bit. so probably that.
and things.
What would be your ideal birthday present?
S Well my birthday‘s actually on the day of the release of Hot Fuzz. so I would hope for a healthy box office receipt!
N Either a weekend away in Amsterdam in a beautiful hotel, or a new car.
to fly.
favourite joke?
You could quit your job, start afresh tomorrow and have the skills to do something completely new. What would you choose to do?
8 Why would we want to?
N I would have to say I'd be a master
And Finally...
As the 79th Academy Awards ceremony approaches, we present some Oscar trivia.
up to the 1986 ceremony, because he was busy on Monday nights. playing clarinet with his jazz band. I It might feel like they go on forever. but there's actually a 45 second limit on
I Oscar winner Zbigniew Rybczynski popped out for a cigarette during the 1982 ceremony and wasn't allowed back in by the vigilant security guards. He resorted to kicking the guard, and spent the rest of the night in jail.
Brody wisely spent six seconds of his allotted time kissing Halle Berry.
I Judi bench and Anthony Quinn did the
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baker. I'd have my own delicatessen and bakery. It'd make fine apple tarts
What’s your least favourite country? And why? N I don't have a least favourite country.
If you could wake up tomorrow and have obtained one ability what would it be?
S Flight. It would be so great to be able
Tell us the punchline to your
S Only for a chocolate biscuit. N ‘Why did father rape the cardinal?‘
What song would you hate to be played at your funeral?
S ‘l'm so Excited' by the Pointer sisters. N ‘I‘m Too Sexy' by Right Said Fred.
When did you last laugh out loud while reading a book? S Last night, reading Andrew Collins'
I Woody Allen failed to turn
acceptance speeches. Adrien
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1 book. Where Did it All Go Right? He talks about his childhood during the 70s. and there were so many moments ' of familiarity in it.
N I don‘t read.
Have you ever exploited your position to get something? Did
you get the results you hoped for? l N I haven't but I'm trying to at the moment. I‘m trying to get a car from Volkswagen and I'm also trying to get into Glastonbury.
8 I'm trying to get a nice hotel room for the day for the Hot Fuzz premiere. for me and my wife to get ready in.
N And me. S No you're not allowed in. Really I 5 don't know what our position is, so I‘d hate to assume.
‘ What’s your all time favourite sitcom and why? N I would have to say The Young l Ones. It was a time I was really j beginning to understand what comedy was and I remember laughing :
Sarandon keeps hers in the toilet. Russell Crowe keeps his in his chicken coop.
I Oscar Hammerstein
II is the only Oscar ever to
have won an Oscar — in fact
he won two. for Best Song in
1941 and 1945.
I The most embarrassed man in Oscar history has to
be Frank Capra. In
1934, Will Rogers
least work ever to win j. .. an Oscar: both only ' appeared on screen for a total of eight minutes in Shakespeare in Love and Lust For Life respectively.
I Not every Oscar takes pride of place in the recipient’s home. Jack Nicholson uses one of his as a hat stand. Susan
hysterically at it.
S I‘d have to agree. It was the show that showed us we could have a comedy voice. and it wasn‘t just middle class couples living in London.
Do gentlemen prefer blondes? S Well we're gentlemen and our partners are brunettes so . . .
When did you last dance? What was the occasion? N I danced at a wedding on Saturday.
What’s your lucky number? Can you tell me how it has proved to be so?
N I‘m not superstitious.
S My lucky number's four.
What do you like best about your life?
S I like the fact that I get to work with my best friends. That is a very nice situation to be in.
I Hot Fuzz is on general release from Fri 76 Feb. See review, page 43.
announced the winner by saying, ‘Come up and get it Frank!’ Unfortunately for Capra. it was actually Frank Lloyd who’d won. Capra had to retreat back to his seat.
I No winner is legally allowed to sell their Oscar without first offering to sell it back to The Academy for $1.
I The Oscars will be shown on Sky Movies 7 at 7am, Sun 25 Feb.