‘We wrote “Suit you, sir!” for Harry Enfield – he didn’t like it’: an oral history of The Fast Show

Thirty years after it first aired, the stars of the hit BBC sketch show tell all – from wowing Johnny Depp to inter-office tension that left one of the cast in tears Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse’s rapidfire sketch series The Fast Show – which recently turned 30 – delivered the biggest comedy catchphrases of the 90s. With Arabella Weir, Mark Williams, Simon Day, Caroline Aherne and John Thomson, the comedy troupe created countless “iconic” characters &nda