KARL MINNS is, in his home county, one third of The Nimmo Twins, and to the rest of the world a comedy writer for television, radio and theatre, including Have I Got News For You, and for Charlie Brooker, Russell Howard and Al Murray. He will be appearing in Nimmo spinoff She Go Looks Back from Behind at 2019 With Friends at Norwich Playhouse from January 13-26.
Where is the most unusual place you have spent Christmas?
Other than Great Yarmouth? In plaster, recovering from getting beaten up in 2007. I was fantastically concussed and would veer between hysterical laughter and emotional breakdowns over the turkey carcass. It was oddly joyous.
What is the best present you have ever given or received?
About 12 years ago I treated close friends to holidays and large gifts. I spent Christmas Day driving round like a thin Santa. The looks on their faces as they saw what they’d got was the best present I’ve ever had.
And the worst?
I gave a hideous dressing gown toa close friend that I realised was a mistake when their face turned to permafrost as the wrapping paper was pulled away. When I was a kid, socks from absent aunties always cast a pall. Nowadays, socks make me punch the air with delight.
What would you really like to eat for Christmas dinner?
A curry with a few pints of lager. That or sausage and mash.
Do you have any unusual festive traditions?
I always try and watch The Lion in Winter. It’s the perfect Christmas film because it’s a dysfunctional family forced to spend the festivities together, while plotting to murder one another.
DAVID WHITELEY
presents Inside Out in the East for the BBC. His wife Amelia Reynolds, is also a BBC Look East presenter and the couple live in south Norfolk.
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