Danny Dyer and Ryan Sampson on their riotous new comedy Mr Bigstuff: ‘I’ve never claimed to be a hardman’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. So when writer and actor Ryan Sampson created his new Sky Max comedy Mr Bigstuff, with lines like “I’ve been on my trotters all day looking for a certain little twat with a nutty haircut”, there was truly only one man for the job. “It was meant to be, baby.” In person, as I’d suspected, Dyer has a gift for delivery; his first proper foray into comedy is long overdue. “Ryan’s character is different to him,” says Dyer, “but there’s not much in it for me and Lee. “If you’re a man who’s quite short and then also gay, it feels like you’re excluded from the conversation about masculinity,” he says.