search owen o'neill, who are both stand-up comics, had done some shows up in edinburgh like twelve angry men, which was full of comedians and which was a hit that just went crazy. i think a lot of people thought that 12 stand-up comics would make a right hash of it, and yet we actually somehow pulled it off! then we did one flew over the cuckoo's nest in edinburgh and then in the west end with [christian slater