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Nick Mohammed

(Leeds, 1980) came to Cambridge with a BA in Geophysics and a PhD in geophysics in mind.

Until Footlights, the

comedy

sketch

group

run by college students,

crossed his path

and ended up at the Edinburgh Fringe comedy festival.

"

That's where the comedy bug bit me

," he details.

And he did it with force.

In the last year, his appearance on

Ted Lasso,

winner of the Emmy for best comedy, it has catapulted him into the map of British comedy.

Now the second season of

Intelligence

has just premiered

,

created by and starring him alongside David Schwimmer, which premieres a new chapter in Cosmo every Friday.

A story of two British secret service agents with unorthodox methods and dubious ethics to entrust them with the security of an entire country.

"I had never done comedy professionally, I had never written before, and certainly I had never acted before ...

Maybe I enjoy because I did a lot of magic when I was younger and worked in hotels, weddings and stuff,

" exposes this Briton with a Cypriot mother and father from Trinidad and Tobago. Those were the beginnings of a career that has grown "slowly" over the past decade to the point where Mohammed was "sure" he was going to make a living. "I guess at first I was blindly optimistic and after reflecting if it hadn't worked, I would have said 'oh no, what have I been doing these last few years?'

What he's been doing is building two characters that even touch each other in character:

Ted Lasso's

shy and helpful Nate

and

Intelligence's

insecure and carefree Joseph

. "They're both awkward and comic in effect, they're in love with the exotic Americans who come into their lives and they're a fish out of water, so they line up with them and help them out, but I think that's probably where the similarities end. "He explains though he adds that

his secret agent" is dumber, "" a lovely puppy, "

and" aligns himself with Jerry because he likes to have this kind of big brother figure in his life. "

Could there really be a secret agent like Joseph and Jerry? I wish there were a lot of jerrys and josephs populating those worlds, but I think they are probably much more serious, and they should be, because they are ultimately the ones who protect humanity!

Despite the importance of his work, in the approach that Nick Mohammed had with the Government Communications Headquarters to document himself to create

Intelligence,

the comedian found that the agents have eccentric situations like his own choir in the service secret or cupcake sales that they organize periodically. "

There is a mixture of ages and attitudes and some people are very eccentric

, but they are united by the fact that they are all typically very analytical and talented in terms of coding and mathematics," details the Briton.

He once delves into the world of cybersecurity to create this series. Don't you get more paranoid in your internet searches and interaction? I'm frankly a bit naive about all things cyber. I mean, I do all the general things you need to do (and hopefully I won't be the victim of identity theft!), But I haven't gotten paranoid or anything like Edward Snowden. I probably have a lot of red flags from GCHQ in terms of cybersecurity from my internet searches. But since they're obviously on top of the show, I guess they're thinking 'oh yeah, it's just Nick doing his thing, trying to figure out how to get into the GCHQ server and see what we're doing!'

And, in the middle of these tasks, how do you play with humor in a minefield such as security, bringing it as close as possible to the reality of the tasks of secret agents? "There always has to be a backdrop to the kinds of things that these people who work there are dealing with in real life, but I guess our goal is to walk that fine line of, you know,

this person sitting at their desk. who is dealing with a horrendous atrocity and, at the same time, in the middle of a typical little office talk

like 'Elaine is leaving tomorrow and we are thinking of organizing drinks in this place, do you want to come?' or 'how is your cat? I heard he was sick,' "says Mohammed.

His partner David Schwimmer recounted that they had to remove a joke about terrorist attacks from the script. Do you censor yourself in that regard so as not to be canceled by society? Often, in scripts, we have alternatives if we feel that things are bordering on bad taste. And then we make that call in editing, but I don't think so. But I don't think we've ever felt like we couldn't or shouldn't say something for fear of being

canceled,

we've always done what we thought was more fun. And, as a writer, I would never write something that was downright offensive. We are not going for cheap laughter and we are not targeting a particular minority group. That, to me, would be wrong. So yes, we tread a fine line, but I hope we do it with precision.

In fact, recalls Mohammed as creator,

Intelligence

is "mostly a very silly comedy" that "never takes itself too seriously."

"That being said, everything we reference in the show has happened and is accurate. As in the pilot, there is a reference to 9/11 and we do it because Jerry claims he predicted it. Which is crazy, but that it's Jerry's character: he can say offensive things, but the key is to remember that he's always the butt of the joke. "

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