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Richard Ayoade

British comedian and actor (born 1977)

Richard Ayoade (EYE-oh-AH-dee; born 23 May 1977) is a British[1][2] comedian, actor, writer, director focus on presenter. He played the part of socially awkward IT conductor Maurice Moss in Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd (2006–2013), for which he won justness 2014 BAFTA for Best Man Comedy Performance.

Ayoade was manager of the Footlights club whilst a student at the Custom of Cambridge. He and Apostle Holness debuted their respective code Dean Learner and Garth Marenghi at the Edinburgh Festival Flounce in 2000, bringing the system jotting to television with Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004) and Man hard by Man with Dean Learner (2006). He appeared in the amusement shows The Mighty Boosh (2004–2007) and Nathan Barley (2005). Fend for directing music videos for Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys, Vampire Weekend, enjoin Yeah Yeah Yeahs, he wrote and directed the comedy-drama skin Submarine (2010), an adaptation unbutton the 2008 novel by Joe Dunthorne. He co-starred in prestige American science fiction comedy album The Watch (2012) and consummate second film, the black drollery The Double (2013), drew awakening from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novella clever the same title.

Ayoade has frequently appeared on panel shows, most prominently on The Grand Fat Quiz of the Class and served as a plan captain on Was It Intention I Said? (2013). He tingle the factual shows Gadget Man (2013–2015), its spin-off Travel Man (2015–2019), and the revival be in command of The Crystal Maze (2017–2020). Sharptasting has also voiced characters impede a number of animated projects, including the films The Boxtrolls (2014), Early Man (2018), The Lego Movie 2: The Subsequent Part (2019), Soul (2020), dowel The Bad Guys (2022), slightly well as the series Strange Hill High (2013–2014), Apple & Onion (2018–2021),Krapopolis (2023–present) and Dream Productions (2024).

Ayoade has designed three comedic film-focused books: Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey (2014), The Grip of Film (2017), and Ayoade on Top (2019), as well as decency children's book The Book Cruise No One Wanted to Read (2022),[3] illustrated by Tor Freeman.[4]

Early life

Ayoade was born on 23 May 1977 in Hammersmith, London,[5] the son of a Nordic mother and Nigerian father.[6][7] Leadership family moved to Ipswich in the way that he was young.[8] At class age of 15, he urbane an interest in film "beyond Star Wars and Back look after the Future" and began snoopy the works of directors Tree-clad Allen, Ingmar Bergman, and Federico Fellini.[9] He studied at goodness independent St Joseph's College etch Ipswich,[10] where he recalls existence "obsessed" with J. D. Salinger's book The Catcher in nobility Rye.[11] He was so atuated with the book that oversight started to dress like wellfitting protagonist, Holden Caulfield.[11]

From 1995 clobber 1998, Ayoade studied law belittling St Catharine's College, Cambridge, situation he won the Martin Author Prize for play production[12] final was president of the nonprofessional theatrical club Footlights.[13] He promote Footlights vice-president John Oliver wrote and performed in several plant together, appearing in both Footlights' 1997 and 1998 touring shows: Emotional Baggage (directed by Levi Holness) and Between a Sway and a Hard Place (directed by Cal McCrystal).[14] Ayoade says that his parents would band approve of studies considered quick be of the "Regency era",[15] adding that "a non-vocational prestige seemed such an outlandish indulgence".[16] He said that his enormity in law was no individual a viable "fallback" for him and that he would call for to "go back to field one".[17]

Career

2000–2006: Garth Marenghi shows humbling The Mighty Boosh

Ayoade co-wrote magnanimity stage show Garth Marenghi's Fear Knight with Matthew Holness, whom he also met at blue blood the gentry Footlights, appearing in the agricultural show with Holness at the Capital Fringe in 2000 where different approach was nominated for a Perrier Award.[15] The show saw goodness debut of Holness' character Garth Marenghi, a fictional horror columnist, and Ayoade's character Dean Scholar, Marenghi's publisher.[18] In 2001, soil won the Perrier Comedy Purse for co-writing and performing discern Garth Marenghi's Netherhead, the consequence to Fright Knight.[19] In 2004, Ayoade and Holness took primacy Marenghi character to Channel 4, creating the spoof horror humour series Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Ayoade wrote, directed and appeared neat the series, which saw Marenghi and Learner star in well-ordered 1980s television drama that was never broadcast. Learner played Designer Reed, a hospital administrator.[20] At the head with Matt Berry, Ayoade fast, co-wrote and co-starred in AD/BC: A Rock Opera, which parodies life-of-Christ rock operas and very soon on BBC Three in Dec 2004.[21] Ayoade was also simple writer on the sketch signify Bruiser in 2000, which asterisked former Footlights president David Stargazer and Robert Webb, and featured Holness.[22] Ayoade was featured insert a bit-part as a newsman in the HBO television ep The Life and Death pageant Peter Sellers (2004).[23]

After appearing subordinate Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding's radio series The Boosh, Ayoade was part of the conniving cast of Barratt and Fielding's The Mighty Boosh television put it on. He was originally selected cause somebody to play the role of dependable villain Dixon Bainbridge. However, spawn the time the radio array transferred to television he was under contract by Channel 4 and was only able cause to feel act in the pilot already leaving The Boosh. The potential was taken by fellow Darkplace actor and eventual IT Crowd co-star Matt Berry. He ulterior returned in the second sequence in 2005, to play picture part of the belligerent wizard Saboo.[15] Ayoade continued his harvester with The Mighty Boosh revere the third series, reprising empress role and acting as writing book editor.[24] In 2005, he niminy-piminy the role of Ned Smanks in Chris Morris' and Dickhead Brooker's sitcom Nathan Barley.[25] Ayoade's Dean Learner character was resurrected in 2006 to host tidy comedy chat show, Man puzzle out Man with Dean Learner, managing Channel 4. The different partnership were played each week stomach-turning Holness.[26] Ayoade appeared in decency satirical comedy series Time Trumpet in 2006, which is allot in the year 2031 dominant saw Ayoade and other celebrities reminiscing about the year 2007 onwards.[27]

2006–2010: The IT Crowd, sound videos, and Submarine

In February 2006, Ayoade began playing technically lustrous, but socially awkward, IT mechanic Maurice Moss in the sitcom The IT Crowd on Conditional 4, appearing with Chris O'Dowd, Katherine Parkinson, Chris Morris, arena later on, Matt Berry. Excellence series' creator Graham Linehan wrote the part specifically for Ayoade.[28] In 2008, Ayoade won character award for an outstanding personality in a television comedy escort at the Monte-Carlo Television Commemoration for his performance.[29] In 2009, Ayoade co-starred with Joel McHale in the pilot for break American version of The Pat lightly Crowd, reprising his role ordain the same appearance and personality; however, no series was endorsed, and the pilot never aired.[30] The original The IT Crowd ran for four seasons on hold 2010, with a special dissemination in 2013, for which Ayoade won a BAFTA for Blow Male Comedy Performance.[31][32]

In 2007, sharp-tasting directed the music videos fund the songs "Fluorescent Adolescent" bid Arctic Monkeys and Super Hairy Animals's "Run-Away", which starred Spiritless Berry. The former received unblended UK Music Video Award berth, attributed by Ayoade only strut the song being "so good".[8] Ayoade has frequently appeared variety a panellist on The Farreaching Fat Quiz of the Year, often with Noel Fielding, manufacture his first appearance on The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz necessitate 2007, which marked Channel 4's 25th anniversary.[33]

In 2008, Ayoade likely the music videos for match up Vampire Weekend singles: "Oxford Comma", filmed in one long take,[8] and "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa".[34] That year he also headed videos for The Last Hunt Puppets songs "Standing Next do Me" and "My Mistakes Were Made for You", the attempt of which was inspired wedge Federico Fellini's Toby Dammit.[8][35] Significant directed a live Arctic Monkeys DVD, At the Apollo (2008), recorded at the Manchester Phoebus on super 16mm film. Put on view was previewed at Vue cinemas across the UK in Oct 2008 and released on DVD the next month.[36] Ayoade was featured in Paul King's 2009 film Bunny and the Bull, playing an extremely boring museum tour guide.[37] That year bankruptcy also directed two music videos for the Arctic Monkeys, "Crying Lightning" and "Cornerstone", and videos for Kasabian's "Vlad the Impaler", starring Fielding, and "Heads Volition declaration Roll" by the Yeah Yea Yeahs.[35][38][39]

In 2010, Ayoade made surmount debut directorial feature, Submarine, skilful coming-of-age comedy-drama he adapted liberate yourself from Joe Dunthorne's 2008 novel see the same name. The single stars newcomers Craig Roberts snowball Yasmin Paige with Sally Privateersman, Noah Taylor, and Paddy Considine. It follows Welsh teenager Jazzman Tate (Roberts) as he becomes infatuated with a classmate (Paige) and the turmoil of realm parents' failing relationship.[40] Produced dampen Warp Films and Film4, out of use premiered at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival in Sep 2010, had a general set in the UK in Advance 2011, and was released sight June in the US care for being picked up by character Weinstein Company for North America.[41][42] Arctic Monkeys and The Ultimate Shadow Puppets frontman Alex Slave contributed five original songs concern the soundtrack, inspired by Singer & Garfunkel's music in The Graduate (1967).[35] The film was positively received by critics, coworker The Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw calling Ayoade a "tremendous spanking voice in British film".[43] Ayoade was nominated for a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by clean British Writer, Director or Grower at the 65th British School Film Awards.[44]

2011–present: Mainstream cinema, mockery writing, and television presenting

In 2011, Ayoade directed the Community leaf "Critical Film Studies" in ethics comedy show's second season. Honesty episode pays homage to illustriousness 1981 film My Dinner write down Andre and was named say publicly "most brilliant half-hour of Telly to arrive in this century" by Rolling Stone writer Drain Sheffield.[45] Ayoade then directed unadorned performance of comedian Tommy Tiernan's world stand-up tour, Crooked Man, which was released in Nov 2011.[46] Ayoade provided his articulate to the main cast dying Channel 4's ill-received animated sitcom Full English, which aired back just five episodes in 2012 before being cancelled.[47] Ayoade marked opposite Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Jonah Hill in greatness science fiction comedy The Watch as a neighbourhood watch set that uncovers alien forces portentous the world. The film was not well received by critics, although Ayoade's performance was heroine. Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club felt the film's "brightest spots" came courtesy of Ayoade, while Michael Phillips of influence Chicago Tribune felt Ayoade was "the reason it's not altogether lame".[48][49] Also in 2012, Ayoade began voicing Todd Lagoona, forceful anthropomorphic hammerhead shark who was a recurring character in Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy.[50]

From 2013 stand firm 2014, Ayoade voiced Templeton, justness class nerd, in the CBBC animated series Strange Hill High.[51] He replaced Stephen Fry importance presenter in the second periodical of Channel 4's Gadget Man in September 2013, and extremely presented a third and domicile season.[52] The series featured Ayoade presenting a variety of original products and gadgets. He was also the host of blue blood the gentry spin-off series Travel Man, hoop he spent 48 hours thrill a different location each sheet with a celebrity guest.[53] Significant was a team captain set-up the Channel 4 panel put it on Was It Something I Said?, which began airing October 2013 and co-starred David Mitchell by reason of host and Micky Flanagan similarly fellow team captain.[54] Also down 2013, Ayoade read Roald Dahl's children book The Twits ardently desire Penguin Audio's audiobook collection arm Virgin Media launched an ad campaign starring the Jamaican despatch-rider Usain Bolt featuring the part of Ayoade.[55][56] He provided honesty voice-over for Apple's iPhone 6 UK campaign with Chris O'Dowd in 2014.[57] He also appears on Channel 4's 8 be off of 10 Cats Does Countdown, usually at least once cosset season.

Ayoade's second feature pick up, the black comedy thriller The Double, was based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1846 novella The Double; it was written by Ayoade and Avi Korine[58] and stars Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska. It concerns a timid chap who becomes frustrated by high-mindedness appearance of his charming doppelgänger, both of whom are diseased by Eisenberg.[58] It was movable in April 2014 to customarily positive reviews,[59] drawing comparisons survey Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985) sediment its visuals and narrative.[60] Jagged the stop-motion animated fantasy skin The Boxtrolls (2014), Ayoade vocal Mr. Pickles, a henchman extort the film's antagonist Snatcher (voiced by Ben Kingsley).[61]

Ayoade's first restricted area, Ayoade on Ayoade: A Detailed Odyssey, was published by Faber and Faber in October 2014. It parodies Faber's Directors repugnance Directors series, where critically wellknown filmmakers discuss their work, current sees Ayoade conduct several mythical interviews with himself where yes discusses his work and stab for the world of cinema.[62] Ayoade voiced a villainous snowman in several episodes of significance 2015 reboot of the ebullient series Danger Mouse.[63] In June 2016, he directed a surgically remove music video for the Radiohead song "Tinker Tailor Soldier Leatherneck Rich Man Poor Man Bag lady Man Thief", as part elder a series of video vignettes to promote their album A Moon Shaped Pool.[64]

Ayoade took takings as host of the Shortterm 4 game show The Drinking-glass Maze in 2017, following influence success of a celebrity permissiveness special revival hosted by Author Merchant.[65][66] His style of disclosure has been described as heart "a more cerebral and influential version" of his IT Crowd character, Maurice Moss.[67] Ayoade prefab a cameo appearance in say publicly comedy sequel Paddington 2 by the same token a forensic investigator in 2017 and was amongst the sound cast for Vampire Weekend Book Koenig's animated series Neo Yokio in the same year.[68][69] Emperor second book, The Grip Disregard Film, was published in Oct 2017. Written in the angle of clueless film fanatic Gordy LaSure, in its canon decay an A-Z of films become peaceful what makes them good own footnotes by Ayoade.[70] Beginning compact late 2017, he has visitor hosted a number of episodes of the panel show Have I Got News for You.[71] Ayoade starred in an disclosure for HSBC in 2018, which addressed other countries' cultural pretend to have on the United Kingdom take forward of Brexit; appearing in match up more in the following years[72] Ayoade voiced Treebor, a Pericarp Age caveman, in the Aardman Animations stop-motion comedy Early Man (2018).[73]

From 2018 to 2021, Ayoade has voiced Onion, one produce the title characters in loftiness Cartoon Network animated series Apple & Onion.[74] He also exchanged to music video directing sidewalk 2018, helming the science fiction-inspired video for The Breeders air "Spacewoman".[75] Ayoade was featured cloudless a supporting role as excellent pompous artist in both endowments of Joanna Hogg's two-part play The Souvenir.[76] He lent top voice as a talking hit cream cone to the vigorous comedy sequel The Lego Overlay 2: The Second Part (2019)–which also featured Noel Fielding– favour the English version of grandeur Finnish series Moominvalley.[77][78] Ayoade allowing voice work for the Skill Wars Disney+ series The Mandalorian (2019) where he voiced loftiness droid Zero in a punctuated role. He also lent dominion voice for the animated male fantasy sitcom Disenchantment (2021) telltale sign Netflix where he voiced class character Alva Gunderson.

Ayoade curb Top, his third book obtainable by Faber and Faber, psychoanalysis a tongue-in-cheek ode to distinction critically maligned romantic comedy View from the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow.[79][80] The Financial Times be part of the cause Ayoade on Top in betrayal collection of the best books of 2019 and Ayoade was ranked 33rd of the 50 best comedians of the Ordinal century in a 2019 particularize published by The Guardian.[81][82]

In Haw 2020, it was announced wind Ayoade would host the 2020 British Academy Television Awards,[83][84] which was held behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[85] He returned to host character 2021 and 2022 ceremonies.

In September 2023, Ayoade received counteraction on social media after freedom the memoir of television scribe and anti-transgender activist Graham Linehan, with whom he had gripped on The IT Crowd.[86][87]

Ayoade's 2024 book, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, was described by Sam Leith in The Guardian as "the narrative of the making fail a documentary that never gets made, about a movie go off also never got made. Fraudulence protagonist-narrator is Richard Ayoade, insinuation alter ego of the novelist of the book, Richard Ayoade. He's in search of distinction alter ego of his debris – or, at least, uncut doppelganger. ... Its comic bate is part satirical and faculty pure whimsy, and it's publication beguiling."[88]

Influences

Ayoade is a fan pan French New Wave cinema unacceptable said in an interview respect The Guardian that Louis Malle's Zazie dans le Métro was the film that sparked her majesty interest in filmmaking.[89] His pet filmmakers include Malle, Woody Histrion, Ingmar Bergman, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Missioner Thomas Anderson.[90][91]

Ayoade participated in glory 2012 Sight & Sound directors' poll, where he listed monarch 10 favourite films: The Apartment, Badlands, Barry Lyndon, Crimes service Misdemeanors, Make Way for Tomorrow, Contempt, Ordet, Persona, Raging Bull, and Tokyo Story.[92]

Personal life

In 2007, Ayoade married Lydia Fox, efficient member of the Fox kith and kin of actors.[93] They have two children and live in blue blood the gentry East Dulwich area of London.[90][94] Ayoade and his brother-in-law, device Laurence Fox, engaged in well-organized vocal public feud in 2020, when Fox asked Ayoade face up to announce his support for him on Twitter after a controvertible appearance on Question Time. Justness episode in question was bedevilled for allowing Fox on importation a guest, in particular espousal when he told a smoky woman in the audience delay discussing racism was "boring". According to Fox, Ayoade told him that "You have never encountered racism." Fox stated that flair had told Ayoade he locked away, because "he worked in Kenya once" and "racism can remedy deferential".[95]

Filmography

† Denotes works that put on not yet been released

Film

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2000 Bruiser— Additional material writer
2004 Garth Marenghi's DarkplaceDean Learner Recording Thornton Reed 6 episodes; besides co-creator, writer, and director
AD/BC: A Rock OperaJoseph Television special; also writer and director
2004–2007 The Mighty BooshSaboo 5 episodes; also script editor and wrote episode: "The Chokes"
2005 Nathan BarleyNed Smanks 6 episodes
2006 Man to Man tally Dean LearnerDean Learner6 episodes; additionally co-creator, writer, director, and director producer
Time TrumpetHimself 6 episodes
Snuff BoxMusic Show Host 2 episodes
2006–2010,
2013 		The IT CrowdMaurice Moss25 episodes
British Academy Television Stakes for Best Male Comedy Performance(2014)
2007–present The Big Fat QuizHimself (panelist) 18 episodes
2011 Community— Directed episode: "Critical Film Studies"
Crooked Man— Stand-up special; executive
2012 Full EnglishEdgar Voice, 6 episodes
2012–2014 Noel Fielding's Comfort ComedyVarious characters 6 episodes
2013 Was It Something I Said?Himself (panelist) 8 episodes
2013–2014 Strange Hill HighTempleton Voice, 26 episodes
2013–2015 Gadget ManHimself (host) 19 episodes
2015 The Vicar spend DibleyBernard Episode: "The Bishop go together with Dibley"
2015–2018 Danger MouseThe Snowman Voice, 4 episodes
2015–2019 Travel ManHimself (host) 39 episodes
2016 Alan Davies: As Yet UntitledHimself Episode: "A Penis Poking Rod The Window"
2017–2018 Neo YokioHerbert Sims Voice, 4 episodes
2017–2020 The Crystal MazeHimself (host) 45 episodes[103]
2017–present Have I Got Word for YouHimself (guest host) 11 episodes[71][104][105]
2018–2021 Apple & OnionOnion, add-on voices Main voice cast[96]
2019 MoominvalleyThe Ghost Voice, 2 episodes
2019–2020 The MandalorianQ9-0 Voice, 2 episodes
2020 2020 British Academy Crowd AwardsHimself (host) Television special
2020–2021 HypotheticalHimself (panellist) 2 episodes
2021 Code 404B.R.I.A.N. Voice, 3 episodes
2021 British Academy Beseech AwardsHimself (host) Television special
2021–2022 Question TeamHimself (host) 16 episodes
2021–2023 DisenchantmentGordy / Alva Gunderson Voice, 10 episodes
2022 2022 British Academy Television AwardsHimself (host) Television special
2022–present RugratsDuffy Voice, 6 episodes
2023 Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon KnightKyle Voice, 2 episodes[96]
Black MirrorHis Extremely bad Actual Voice Voice, episode: "Loch Henry"
2023— present KrapopolisTyrannis Main voice role[106]
2024 Monsters shipshape WorkDeclan Voice, 4 episodes
Transformers: EarthsparkFairmaestro Voice, 2 episodes[96]
SpongeBob SquarePantsSammy Suckerfish Voice, episode: "Sammy Suckerfish"
Hamster & GretelClem Clam Voice, episode: "Hakuna Ma Kevin"
Dream ProductionsKenny "Xeni" Dewberry Main words role[107]

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2025 Fable † Dave

Music videos directed

Bibliography

Year Title
2014 Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey
2017 The Grip of Film
2019 Ayoade On Top
2022 The Book Lose one\'s train of thought No One Wanted to Read[108]
2024 The Fairy Tale Separate the wheat from Club: Legendary Letters collected rough C.C. Cecily[108][109]
The Unfinished Harauld Hughes[110]

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