Baynton is part of a group of six comedy actors who have stuck together since the BBC’s Horrible Histories first hit screens in 2009.<\/p>\n
Becoming known as The Six Idiots – officially named Them There – the troupe also features Jim Howick, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond.<\/p>\n
Baynton said being back with the gang felt like “coming home” for a “family reunion”.<\/p>\n
“Families can rub each other up the wrong way, [but] deep down, you love each other,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“We all find each other really funny, we’re all fans of each other.<\/p>\n
“You spark each other’s imagination and ideas sort of snowball.<\/p>\n
“I find when I write on my own, it’s a much more drawn-out process. There’s a lot more silence in between those sparks where you just stare at a wall.”<\/p>\n
Baynton said it was only while writing that the cast realised there was a strong family theme between the characters.<\/p>\n
“I think there’s a reason that family sitcoms are always the ones that seem to endure or find the biggest audiences, because people love to see family reflected back at them,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baynton is part of a group of six comedy actors who have stuck together since the BBC’s Horrible…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}