I knew that when he stopped speaking, I would have finished the play. One day one of the other characters said something and he didn't reply, it was such a relief!
Things were at a fairly low ebb. Everybody knew me but I wasn't getting much work. So Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews asked me to string together a series of expletives, which I did in the style of this other character, and they just sort of looked at each other.