Trivia:

He had been to an audition in the morning where he felt that he was made "to jump through hoops" for a small role by people he had worked with before. This frustrating audition gave him the mind-set at the next audition on that day, for the role of Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It: Der Intrigantenstadl (2005). Armando Iannucci found him perfect for the role.