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Comedy Soup: This week, we speak to Welsh comedy auteurs, The Slagg Brothers. Hello Slaggs! How long have you been making comedy?

SlagA: We've been writing together since 2003 but we've created work in isolation for much longer. SlagA has written and published humorous novels. SlagB composed many songs as leader of punk band, 100,000 Bodybags. As a partnership, we've never argued over jokes or scripts. End-product is more important than percentage of lines and we both supply different strengths that compensate for each other's weaknesses.

Comedy Soup: Who or what inspired you to get started?

SlagA: An ITV producer who called within an hour of receiving an emailed pilot to say how much it excited him. Though we never heard any more, we owe him a debt as it gave us initial belief. Reaching the finals of ITV's Shoot the Writers was another boost. Comedy Soup also takes part blame. Its launch forced us to start recording video and audio. Although we network across YouTube and MySpace, Comedy Soup gave us that impetus to record and promote our work. Others in the 'Biz' have given great advice but I don't want to embarrass them by associating their long pedigrees with The Slagg Brothers' brand.

SlagB: I've been inspired by comedy from Dads Army and Fawlty Towers to Brass Eye, The League of Gentlemen, and Laurel and Hardy.

Comedy Soup: What's been your proudest achievement or the most fun thing you've done so far?

SlagA: Sad as it sounds, I have an innate inability to take pride in things I've done. Maybe I'll pop some bubbly when they air our first commissioned series.

SlagB: Tripping on vodka and Viagra and going on a gangbang in Yorkshire during a Saga Holidays outing.

Comedy Soup: And what's been your worst experience?

SlagB: Waking up the following morning.

SlagA: Being so poor that I had to share a bed with SlagB after a London writing conference. Trust me, it was scary. This guy does things to screwdrivers that no human should be forced to witness.

Comedy Soup: What are your comic aspirations?

SlagA: A writer told me he believed he'd become famous after death and that school kids would study his scripts. My response was: What use is posthumous fame? Personally, I'd prefer they study my work before I die. No-one should write with posterity in mind. If you believe you have an unique voice or take on the world then you absolutely need a platform in the present. My dilemma is expressed in the formula: Creativity - Platform = frustration + ulcers + early death. So my aspirations are to win a series of commissions culminating in well-timed retirement after writing a classic Simpsons episode.

SlagB: To present a show entitled "I'm a celebrity, put me out". A show in which has-beens get a burning tire put round their necks; fellow deadbeats try to extinguish them, all by public vote.

Comedy Soup: Are you really brothers?

SlagB: Yeah, we're twins, different fathers though.

SlagA: We've performed all the necessary native American blood brother ceremonies, so yes.

Comedy Soup: What's with the hair?

SlagA: He's never told me but I suspect it can be summed up in one word: over-compensation.

SlagB: One's real, the other's fake. Answers on a postcard. First correct answer wins SlagA's wig. Oh, bugger!

Comedy Soup: Other than yourselves, who should we be looking out for on the Welsh comedy circuit in 2007?

SlagB: Ron Davies resurrecting his career in "Badger Watch"‚ Harry Secombe literally resurrected in "Celebrity Exhumations"‚ And a documentary featuring Charlotte Church as the recipient in pioneering surgery to have a talent transplant.

SlagA: If there's a Welsh comedy circuit, they haven't invited us. It's harder to break in Wales as Welsh men than elsewhere in the UK. There's a language issue. If we become successful it'll be a case of importing our comedy back into Wales rather than exporting comedy from it.

Comedy Soup: Could you be any funnier?

SlagA: Yes, much funnier. Like our heroes Hale and Pace, we're unfortunately a comedy double act blessed with two straight men.

SlagB: Yes, if I could get rid of SlagA or set him on fire.

And now the unprinted questions

Comedy Soup: Why do you think we chose you as our member of the month?

SlagA: Because we have such photogenic faces?

SlagB: Because we’re the only saps on your mailing lists?

Comedy Soup: Say something funny.

SlagA: Our agent says let’s talk money first.

Comedy Soup: You make us laugh but who or what makes you laugh?

SlagA: It’s SlagB, he's my favourite funny guy.

SlagB: Gary Glitter pleading innocent. Seriously, Laurel and Hardy;  League of Gentlemen.

Comedy Soup: Who’d win a fight between Russell Brand and Jo Brand?

SlagB: Benny Hill.

SlagA: Neither. It'd be a fight-to-the-death in molten lava. If one of them managed to crawl out, I’d kick them back in. As a bonus to mankind, I’d get Les Dennis and Jade Goody to adjudicate.

Comedy Soup: If you could have three superpowers what would they be?

SlagB: America and China. I haven’t needed a third superpower since Viagra came on the market.

SlagA: A death ray vaporising all catchphrases and their originators at time of inception. The ability to leave coherent messages on answer-phones. To become irresistible to the BBC’s Head of Comedy.

Comedy Soup: How does it feel now that Soup has made you a celebrity?

SlagB: I’m looking forward to four weeks in the jungle with Kate Moss, Jodie Kidd, and Nichole Kidman and eating nothing but stick-insects.

SlagA: It feels like permanent priapism.

Comedy Soup: Any plans for this evening?

SlagB: I’m going to try locating SlagA’s backbone - he had one once.

SlagA: I’m auditioning for the role of lead gimp in the West End version of Pulp Fiction.

Comedy Soup: How about the future?

SlagA: To continue feeding the hubbub of indifference our name is generating through the comedy network until it erupts in a furnace of disinterest. From this groundswell of apathy, we hope to land our first commission.

SlagB: How would I know? I’m not Nostro-@*&!%-damus

Alternative answer: To bring peace to the Middle East by nuking the region off the planet. But it seems world leaders are already working towards this solution. To end inhumanity by chopping off everybody’s hands and tongues. You can’t pull triggers without fingers and you can't say anything offensive without a tongue.