And we're back for what is sure to be the most chaotic #tnuc panel yet - @therealcononeill.bsky.social, Nathan Foad, and David Fane! #ofmd Con: We're Hanson. You know what I can see? Fane's thighs. That's all I can see right now. Q: What is your crappiest claim to fame? Con: It's like sitting next to a rack of meat [still talking about Fane's thighs] Nathan: I used to be Twitter famous. The other day I was at a day rave and this guy came up to me was like "FUCK I USED TO LOVE YOUR VIDEOS" and then so seriously went "what happened?" What happened? I got on TV bitch! DF: This reminds me of being on S1 and there was so much banter with Kristian added to it. Con: And none of us could understand what Kristian was saying. DF: Nathan would have to translate for us. Nathan: Kristian doesn't code switch for anyone. I did act as sort of the resident Northern Irish translator. DF: and I thank you for that. Q: Do you have any tips for dealing with stage fright? Con: Years ago I got sober and I did a play after a year and it was my first time on stage completely sober. Before I went on, my nerves were enormous. And then I heard myself say, "you're excited." Con: We tend to think that excitement and fear are the same thing but they aren't. Don't let the fear announce itself as the only thing you're feeling. Performers love to perform. Cut it in half - only half of this is fear and the rest is excitement. Don't let the fear override your excitement. DF: I was doing a terrible show (I'd written it). One night we had an audience of 4 in a theater of 300 but it had to go one because one of them was William Shatner. I got the courage to go on, my foot went through the stage and I fell off. I crawled my way into the wings. But in the end he was kind Nathan: When I was doing standup it was the most nervous I'd ever been for anything in my entire life. You just have to battle through it. It's going to feel horrible and there's no way to cheat your way around it. It will feel really shit and scary and then it'll stop feeling scary. Q: Has there been a fan experience that's stuck with you? Con: Many years ago I was touring with Blood Brothers in Toronto. I did an interview and a question was "What music are you listening to?" Barenaked Ladies had just released an album. Con: Then the show went to Broadway and I started getting fan letters that started to get pretty overt and sexual. All of the letters came to the theater. One night I got back to my apartment and I was a bit drunk and I got into the bedroom and the answering machine light was flashing. Con: I pressed play and I heard "Con, I love you." I never found out who it was. Con: When I grow up, I want to be Dave Fane. DF: When I grow up, I want to be Con. Con: And Nathan is never going to grow up. DF: He's going to be Peter Pan. Q: What's something fans are surprised to know about you? Nathan: I think because Lucius is so sexual in the show, I got asked a lot of questions about open relationships and polyamory and I have no experience in that. Con: I'm as boring as Nathan. Me and my fellow are the most boring couple. We bore ourselves but there's comfort in being that boring. Con: You know what we hate? When friends are in shows and it means we have to go see them. You know what we love? When friends are on the telly because we don't have to move and we can judge them, be overtly critical and then go to bed. Nathan: My own mother thinks I do fuck all. People think I'm mister fun swanning around town. I am a loser, I sit at home. I work very hard, I'm chained to my kitchen table all the time writing my little scripts. I can't be meeting up with old men for charity [points to Con]. Dave: I think they'd be surprised by the fact that I volunteer at the zoo. I like animals and you can be part of a behavior enrichment team. And then I got swapped over to talking to people which was horrible. I went back to doing behavioral enrichment. Animals are so cool. Q: If you had a spirit animal, what would it be? Nathan: I don't know. Con: You'd be a gerbil. Nathan: I think maybe a guinea pig. What are animals that breathe loudly? Con: An asthmatic gerbil. DF: There's no secret that I'm in love with Con so I'd say you're an eagle flying high above. And you my friend [to Nathan], you'd be a tiger. Con: I think I'm more of a jack russell who thinks he's an eagle. [To David Fane] You're a polar bear. Q: As a big cheese fan, would you ever take part in the Gloucester cheese rolling festival? Con: No, it would mean I have to leave my house. Q: Are there any characters you'd like to have interacted with more? Con: I'd have loved to be in the lesbian episode. I'd have loved to work with those two. I'm a big Will Arnett fan too. I think he's fabulous and Izzy and Jack would've had great chemistry. But we didn't. Only in your filthy minds DF: I would have liked to have more time with Samson. I really liked his vibe and we're sort of similar. Both alike in color and round. Con: And deeply authentic. No acting required, it's just seamless what the two of you do. It's a little bit intimidating how natural it is. Nathan: From guest cast, I'd love to have done anything with Claudia O'Doherty. I think Mary and Lucius would have gotten on like a treat. In terms of people I would have liked to work with more - Ruibo! Con: I would have liked to do more with Vico. There's a real undiscovered thing between Jim and Izzy that would have been dynamic. But you know what, we'll do it in the movie. Nathan: DON'T GET EXCITED THAT WASN'T AN ANNOUNCEMENT. Q: Who have you met that you'd just fangirl over? DF: Molly Ringwald. I love her talent, except her jazz singing. Nathan: I was very starstruck by Leslie Jones and Fred Armison. I met Jinkx Monsoon and I was unbelievably starstruck. I would really struggle to talk to Tina Fey. Q: Have you got any funny moments on set of #OFMD? DF: I corpsed all the time. I giggle. There was one time we were playing a game in between shots - A for apple, B for banana - and we got to Q and I stupidly said "cucumber". I've never been able to live it down. Con: We laughed for 3-4 weeks. Con: When we did the "oh daddy" scene, it was improvised. Nathan laughed and Matt laughed. And I was getting notes off Alex and Alyssa to bring it in because the first time it was long and really pervy but I felt like I was in the club. Con: There was another scene with me, Dave, Guz, and Taika about dogs going to heaven. Fuck me, the improv in that scene. When Taika goes off, you just hold on and hope you don't die. I felt so shattered by the fact that I kept laughing. Nathan: A moment I found so funny on set, when me and Rhys are sat up high collecting people's teeth and we hi to Ivan, it was just so funny and so British.