The Royle Family, with its comfy-caustic scripts, brought my household together like no other show " and Aherne was the subtlest, most surprising, member of its talented castA while back, I interviewed one of my heroes, Tim Key, and asked him to list his comedic idols. He reeled off a predictable enough list " Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, Stephen Fry " but among the alt-comedy patriarchs he named a less obvious influe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM on February 18, 2015