Yahoo News David Schwimmer teases "edgier material" in his brand new Sky comedy series Intelligence
Friends star David Schwimmer's new comedy series Intelligence, which also stars 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Dictionary Corner favourite Nick Mohammed, will debut on Sky this Friday (February 21).
The series is set in the Government Communication Headquarters, also known as the GCHQ, a British intelligence agency that's basically a geekier version of MI5 and which tackles international and domestic cyber crime.
But despite having quite the geeky setup, David has explained that the comedy will contain "edgier material" than what you might expect from other shows of its kind.
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Speaking to Digital Spy and other media, the actor said: "There are a couple of jokes in there that are right on the edge. We're like, 'Can we say this? Can we make this joke?' But our feeling is, let's shoot it and we'll decide in the edit.
"But I think both of us are more keen on the edgier material because we have a pretty good taste barometer, of how soon is too soon for a joke."
In the series, David plays a pompous, maverick NSA agent called Jerry, while Nick, who also wrote the series, plays a computer analyst called Joseph.
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Nick also explained that, because both GCHQ and NSA are real government bodies, they felt it would be "strange" if they weren't occasionally making references to some real-life atrocities.
"I think we just wanted to make it feel as real as possible and that real people have to deal with some of the after effects of very horrible things. We never dwell on it," Nick added.
"If a character has got a particular take on something like 9/11 then I want to hear it, I want to write it and it's everyone's reactions to that attitude towards things that is where the funny comes from rather than, 'Oh wasn't 9/11 funny'.
"Of course it's not funny, but Jerry's take on how he predicted that it was going to happen, there's room for comedy there," he continued.
"There's always a slightly odd approach to how we deal with that stuff but hopefully it means it's not going to cause offence in a one-dimensional, we're just poking fun at something, way."
Intelligence begins at 9pm on Sky One on Friday, February 21 and a second season is already in the works.
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