Nick Frost and Simon Pegg ("those guys" behind the Amazon series "Truth Seekers" and, as you say, a load of other great stuff) are one of modern comedy's great bromances. So it's no surprise, but it's also delightful, to find out that they were friends first and that they became friends when Frost hit on Pegg's girlfriend.

Frost was working at a Mexican restaurant in London, he said in an interview with Collider.com, when he got an instant crush on the new waitress. He asked if she was single and she said no, she had a boyfriend named Simon. Frost, of course, wanted to hate him, but said later: "As soon as I saw him, I realized he was the real prize, not her."

Frost was (and still is) somewhat of a reluctant showman, suffering from anxiety and, as he puts it, "a fear of being looked at," but his new buddy, Pegg, convinced him to work past it.

After Pegg started working as a standup comedian, he convinced Frost to try it. Then, when Pegg got a deal to write a TV series ("Spaced," now a cult classic), he all but forced Frost to agree to appear as a supporting actor — and given that it was actually a character Frost had come up with earlier, it was only fair, really.

"Spaced" brought the duo together with director Edgar Wright (though he and Pegg had worked together previously), and the rest is funny-film history. Together, Frost, Pegg and Wright would go one to create the horror comedy "Shaun of the Dead" (2004), the cop comedy "Hot Fuzz" (2007) and the sci-fi comedy "The World's End" (2013).

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