Sorry, we’re bumpkins,” says Daisy May Cooper. “Complete and utter country bumpkins,” adds her brother, Charlie, shaking his head. The pair are sitting in a café beside BBC Broadcasting House, explaining how all this – doing interviews, having a hit comedy series, just being in London – makes them fish out of water.
Not long ago, the pair had zero prospects: sharing the same bedroom in their parents’ Cotswolds home and cleaning the same office block together, feeling like life had left them behind. Now they star in This Country, a mockumentary series they’ve created about marginalised youth in rural Britain. They’ve managed to satirise small-town life so well that people from all backgrounds quote their favourite lines at them in the street. So yes, they’re outliers… but they’ve fought…