Production
Holness and Ayoade spent time testing out material in front of a live audience in December 2005; the show involved Ayoade fixed in the role of smut-peddling presenter Dean Learner and Holness playing various characters. These included a sci-fi — or "S.F.", as he preferred it — actor with a new biography detailing his extremely close relationship with a director, Garth Marenghi; folk musician Merriman Weir who has a penchant for rather dark songs (Holness is an adept guitarist); and another actor, who delivered a chilling and possibly improvised monologue.
Bafta Nominated composer Andrew Hewitt, who scored Darkplace, also scored sections of Man to Man.
An amount of the humour stems from Learner's dubious business activities and misogynistic tendencies — with Finnish model Satu Suominen (as his 'beautiful assistant-cum-bartender') being the target of many of his jibes.
Read more about this topic: Man To Man With Dean Learner
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