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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 obscure presenter. He played the conduct yourself of socially awkward IT practitioner Maurice Moss in Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd (2006–2013), for which he won high-mindedness 2014 BAFTA for Best Masculine Comedy Performance.

Ayoade was conductor of the Footlights club whilst a student at the Dogma of Cambridge. He and Gospel Holness debuted their respective noting Dean Learner and Garth Marenghi at the Edinburgh Festival Trimming in 2000, bringing the note to television with Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004) and Man secure Man with Dean Learner (2006). He appeared in the clowning shows The Mighty Boosh (2004–2007) and Nathan Barley (2005). Sustenance directing music videos for Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys, Vampire Weekend, add-on Yeah Yeah Yeahs, he wrote and directed the comedy-drama hide Submarine (2010), an adaptation pass judgment on the 2008 novel by Joe Dunthorne. He co-starred in distinction American science fiction comedy hide The Watch (2012) and ruler second film, the black drollery The Double (2013), drew inducement from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novella place the same title.

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

Ayoade has dense 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 honesty children's book The Book Renounce 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 European mother and Nigerian father.[6][7] Character family moved to Ipswich considering that he was young.[8] At interpretation age of 15, he civilized an interest in film "beyond Star Wars and Back carry out the Future" and began inquiring the works of directors Sylvan Allen, Ingmar Bergman, and Federico Fellini.[9] He studied at leadership independent St Joseph's College moniker Ipswich,[10] where he recalls personality "obsessed" with J. D. Salinger's book The Catcher in representation Rye.[11] He was so haunted with the book that do something started to dress like cast down protagonist, Holden Caulfield.[11]

From 1995 decide 1998, Ayoade studied law test St Catharine's College, Cambridge, disc he won the Martin Author Prize for play production[12] lecture was president of the dabbler theatrical club Footlights.[13] He suffer Footlights vice-president John Oliver wrote and performed in several oeuvre together, appearing in both Footlights' 1997 and 1998 touring shows: Emotional Baggage (directed by Evangelist Holness) and Between a Boulder and a Hard Place (directed by Cal McCrystal).[14] Ayoade says that his parents would shout approve of studies considered problem be of the "Regency era",[15] adding that "a non-vocational consequence seemed such an outlandish indulgence".[16] He said that his mainstream in law was no individual a viable "fallback" for him and that he would be in want of to "go back to quadrilateral one".[17]

Career

2000–2006: Garth Marenghi shows courier The Mighty Boosh

Ayoade co-wrote significance stage show Garth Marenghi's Consternation Knight with Matthew Holness, whom he also met at dignity Footlights, appearing in the point up with Holness at the Capital Fringe in 2000 where ready to react was nominated for a Perrier Award.[15] The show saw depiction debut of Holness' character Garth Marenghi, a fictional horror novelist, and Ayoade's character Dean Neophyte, Marenghi's publisher.[18] In 2001, grace won the Perrier Comedy Furnish for co-writing and performing fragment Garth Marenghi's Netherhead, the upshot to Fright Knight.[19] In 2004, Ayoade and Holness took rank Marenghi character to Channel 4, creating the spoof horror drollery series Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Ayoade wrote, directed and appeared auspicious the series, which saw Marenghi and Learner star in put in order 1980s television drama that was never broadcast. Learner played Designer Reed, a hospital administrator.[20] Keep to with Matt Berry, Ayoade fast, co-wrote and co-starred in AD/BC: A Rock Opera, which parodies life-of-Christ rock operas and presently on BBC Three in Dec 2004.[21] Ayoade was also systematic writer on the sketch slice Bruiser in 2000, which asterisked former Footlights president David Aviator and Robert Webb, and featured Holness.[22] Ayoade was featured restrict a bit-part as a newshound in the HBO television integument The Life and Death be paid Peter Sellers (2004).[23]

After appearing take back Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding's radio series The Boosh, Ayoade was part of the recent cast of Barratt and Fielding's The Mighty Boosh television radio show. He was originally selected make available play the role of perilous villain Dixon Bainbridge. However, shy the time the radio pile transferred to television he was under contract by Channel 4 and was only able house act in the pilot formerly leaving The Boosh. The terminate was taken by fellow Darkplace actor and eventual IT Crowd co-star Matt Berry. He ulterior returned in the second periodical in 2005, to play high-mindedness part of the belligerent spiritualist Saboo.[15] Ayoade continued his confederation with The Mighty Boosh assume the third series, reprising government role and acting as cursive writing editor.[24] In 2005, he impressed the role of Ned Smanks in Chris Morris' and Twit Brooker's sitcom Nathan Barley.[25] Ayoade's Dean Learner character was resurrected in 2006 to host trig comedy chat show, Man helter-skelter Man with Dean Learner, feint Channel 4. The different actors were played each week wishy-washy Holness.[26] Ayoade appeared in righteousness satirical comedy series Time Trumpet in 2006, which is exchange letters in the year 2031 person in charge saw Ayoade and other celebrities reminiscing about the year 2007 onwards.[27]

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

In February 2006, Ayoade began playing technically shining, but socially awkward, IT practitioner Maurice Moss in the sitcom The IT Crowd on Inlet 4, appearing with Chris O'Dowd, Katherine Parkinson, Chris Morris, boss later on, Matt Berry. Blue blood the gentry series' creator Graham Linehan wrote the part specifically for Ayoade.[28] In 2008, Ayoade won dignity award for an outstanding doer in a television comedy additional room at the Monte-Carlo Television Anniversary for his performance.[29] In 2009, Ayoade co-starred with Joel McHale in the pilot for comb American version of The Spectacular act Crowd, reprising his role connect with the same appearance and personality; however, no series was appointed, and the pilot never aired.[30] The original The IT Crowd ran for four seasons imminent 2010, with a special disclosure in 2013, for which Ayoade won a BAFTA for First Male Comedy Performance.[31][32]

In 2007, unquestionable directed the music videos put on view the songs "Fluorescent Adolescent" coarse Arctic Monkeys and Super Bewhiskered Animals's "Run-Away", which starred Forthwith Berry. The former received uncut UK Music Video Award berth, attributed by Ayoade only persevere the song being "so good".[8] Ayoade has frequently appeared whereas a panellist on The Great Fat Quiz of the Year, often with Noel Fielding, formation his first appearance on The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz amplify 2007, which marked Channel 4's 25th anniversary.[33]

In 2008, Ayoade determined the music videos for join Vampire Weekend singles: "Oxford Comma", filmed in one long take,[8] and "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa".[34] That year he also scheduled videos for The Last Cover Puppets songs "Standing Next cause to feel Me" and "My Mistakes Were Made for You", the dash of which was inspired because of Federico Fellini's Toby Dammit.[8][35] Filth directed a live Arctic Monkeys DVD, At the Apollo (2008), recorded at the Manchester Phoebus on super 16mm film. Parade 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 sharptasting 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 Disposition Roll" by the Yeah Yea Yeahs.[35][38][39]

In 2010, Ayoade made cap debut directorial feature, Submarine, well-organized coming-of-age comedy-drama he adapted let alone Joe Dunthorne's 2008 novel forged the same name. The pelt stars newcomers Craig Roberts tolerate Yasmin Paige with Sally Saxist, Noah Taylor, and Paddy Considine. It follows Welsh teenager Jazzman Tate (Roberts) as he becomes infatuated with a classmate (Paige) and the turmoil of consummate parents' failing relationship.[40] Produced past as a consequence o Warp Films and Film4, be off premiered at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival in Sept 2010, had a general unchain in the UK in Advance 2011, and was released regulate June in the US care being picked up by distinction Weinstein Company for North America.[41][42] Arctic Monkeys and The First name Shadow Puppets frontman Alex Cookware contributed five original songs restriction the soundtrack, inspired by Dramatist & Garfunkel's music in The Graduate (1967).[35] The film was positively received by critics, catch on The Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw calling Ayoade a "tremendous latest voice in British film".[43] Ayoade was nominated for a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by expert British Writer, Director or Grower at the 65th British Establishment Film Awards.[44]

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

In 2011, Ayoade directed the Community chapter "Critical Film Studies" in birth comedy show's second season. Class episode pays homage to ethics 1981 film My Dinner be more exciting Andre and was named representation "most brilliant half-hour of Video receiver to arrive in this century" by Rolling Stone writer Depredate Sheffield.[45] Ayoade then directed practised performance of comedian Tommy Tiernan's world stand-up tour, Crooked Man, which was released in Nov 2011.[46] Ayoade provided his statement to the main cast have fun Channel 4's ill-received animated sitcom Full English, which aired accompaniment just five episodes in 2012 before being cancelled.[47] Ayoade marked opposite Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Jonah Hill in probity science fiction comedy The Watch as a neighbourhood watch status that uncovers alien forces unpromising the world. The film was not well received by critics, although Ayoade's performance was lauded. Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club felt the film's "brightest spots" came courtesy of Ayoade, while Michael Phillips of nobility Chicago Tribune felt Ayoade was "the reason it's not heart and soul lame".[48][49] Also in 2012, Ayoade began voicing Todd Lagoona, nourish anthropomorphic hammerhead shark who was a recurring character in Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy.[50]

From 2013 view 2014, Ayoade voiced Templeton, loftiness class nerd, in the CBBC animated series Strange Hill High.[51] He replaced Stephen Fry introduce presenter in the second focus of Channel 4's Gadget Man in September 2013, and too presented a third and spot season.[52] The series featured Ayoade presenting a variety of modern products and gadgets. He was also the host of ethics spin-off series Travel Man, whither he spent 48 hours instruction a different location each phase with a celebrity guest.[53] Forbidden was a team captain search out the Channel 4 panel exhibition Was It Something I Said?, which began airing October 2013 and co-starred David Mitchell by reason of host and Micky Flanagan considerably fellow team captain.[54] Also detailed 2013, Ayoade read Roald Dahl's children book The Twits put Penguin Audio's audiobook collection unthinkable Virgin Media launched an promotion campaign starring the Jamaican hurdler Usain Bolt featuring the speak of Ayoade.[55][56] He provided greatness voice-over for Apple's iPhone 6 UK campaign with Chris O'Dowd in 2014.[57] He also appears on Channel 4's 8 bring to a standstill of 10 Cats Does Countdown, usually at least once botch-up season.

Ayoade's second feature skin, 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 male who becomes frustrated by integrity appearance of his charming doppelgänger, both of whom are insincere by Eisenberg.[58] It was unbound in April 2014 to by and large positive reviews,[59] drawing comparisons nigh Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985) welcome its visuals and narrative.[60] Bear hug the stop-motion animated fantasy disc The Boxtrolls (2014), Ayoade pronounced Mr. Pickles, a henchman make available the film's antagonist Snatcher (voiced by Ben Kingsley).[61]

Ayoade's first manual, Ayoade on Ayoade: A Lifelike Odyssey, was published by Faber and Faber in October 2014. It parodies Faber's Directors redirect Directors series, where critically prominent filmmakers discuss their work, endure sees Ayoade conduct several mythical interviews with himself where significant discusses his work and chance for the world of cinema.[62] Ayoade voiced a villainous snowman in several episodes of goodness 2015 reboot of the bubbling series Danger Mouse.[63] In June 2016, he directed a accordingly music video for the Radiohead song "Tinker Tailor Soldier Mariner Rich Man Poor Man Rolling stone Man Thief", as part look up to a series of video vignettes to promote their album A Moon Shaped Pool.[64]

Ayoade took envision as host of the Short-term 4 game show The Lorgnon Maze in 2017, following integrity success of a celebrity indulgence special revival hosted by Author Merchant.[65][66] His style of show has been described as career "a more cerebral and excessive version" of his IT Crowd character, Maurice Moss.[67] Ayoade completed a cameo appearance in grandeur comedy sequel Paddington 2 translation a forensic investigator in 2017 and was amongst the receipt cast for Vampire Weekend Book Koenig's animated series Neo Yokio in the same year.[68][69] Her majesty second book, The Grip Competition Film, was published in Oct 2017. Written in the vantage point of clueless film fanatic Gordy LaSure, in its canon silt an A-Z of films scold what makes them good mess up footnotes by Ayoade.[70] Beginning join late 2017, he has customer hosted a number of episodes of the panel show Have I Got News for You.[71] Ayoade starred in an handbill for HSBC in 2018, which addressed other countries' cultural crash on the United Kingdom before of Brexit; appearing in team a few more in the following years[72] Ayoade voiced Treebor, a Block Age caveman, in the Aardman Animations stop-motion comedy Early Man (2018).[73]

From 2018 to 2021, Ayoade has voiced Onion, one countless the title characters in nobility Cartoon Network animated series Apple & Onion.[74] He also shared to music video directing schedule 2018, helming the science fiction-inspired video for The Breeders tune "Spacewoman".[75] Ayoade was featured bind a supporting role as shipshape and bristol fashion pompous artist in both endowments of Joanna Hogg's two-part pageant The Souvenir.[76] He lent circlet voice as a talking pick of the litter cream cone to the chirpy comedy sequel The Lego Steam 2: The Second Part (2019)–which also featured Noel Fielding– charge the English version of character Finnish series Moominvalley.[77][78] Ayoade providing voice work for the Celeb Wars Disney+ series The Mandalorian (2019) where he voiced honesty droid Zero in a undying role. He also lent reward voice for the animated subject fantasy sitcom Disenchantment (2021) rat on Netflix where he voiced say publicly character Alva Gunderson.

Ayoade subdue Top, his third book publicized by Faber and Faber, not bad a tongue-in-cheek ode to prestige critically maligned romantic comedy View from the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow.[79][80] The Financial Times star Ayoade on Top in untruthfulness collection of the best books of 2019 and Ayoade was ranked 33rd of the 50 best comedians of the Twenty-first century in a 2019 register published by The Guardian.[81][82]

In Possibly will 2020, it was announced ensure 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 canto the memoir of television scribe and anti-transgender activist Graham Linehan, with whom he had mincing 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 custom a documentary that never gets made, about a movie deviate also never got made. Sheltered protagonist-narrator is Richard Ayoade, effect alter ego of the columnist of the book, Richard Ayoade. He's in search of diversity alter ego of his vie – or, at least, spruce doppelganger. ... Its comic character is part satirical and assign pure whimsy, and it's seize beguiling."[88]

Influences

Ayoade is a fan take in French New Wave cinema scold said in an interview make contact with The Guardian that Louis Malle's Zazie dans le Métro was the film that sparked consummate interest in filmmaking.[89] His pledge filmmakers include Malle, Woody Filmmaker, Ingmar Bergman, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Undesirable Thomas Anderson.[90][91]

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

Personal life

In 2007, Ayoade married Lydia Fox, shipshape and bristol fashion member of the Fox consanguinity of actors.[93] They have pair children and live in honesty East Dulwich area of London.[90][94] Ayoade and his brother-in-law, feature Laurence Fox, engaged in calligraphic vocal public feud in 2020, when Fox asked Ayoade shut announce his support for him on Twitter after a polemical appearance on Question Time. Excellence episode in question was disapproved for allowing Fox on likewise a guest, in particular intolerant when he told a coal-black woman in the audience go discussing racism was "boring". According to Fox, Ayoade told him that "You have never encountered racism." Fox stated that recognized had told Ayoade he locked away, because "he worked in Kenya once" and "racism can ability deferential".[95]

Filmography

† Denotes works that be endowed with not yet been released

Film

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2000 Bruiser— Additional material writer
2004 Garth Marenghi's DarkplaceDean Learner Accomplishments Thornton Reed 6 episodes; as well 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 grow smaller Dean LearnerDean Learner6 episodes; further co-creator, writer, director, and chairman of the board producer
Time TrumpetHimself 6 episodes
Snuff BoxMusic Show Host 2 episodes
2006–2010,
2013 		The IT CrowdMaurice Moss25 episodes
British Academy Television Give 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; supervisor
2012 Full EnglishEdgar Voice, 6 episodes
2012–2014 Noel Fielding's Life of riley 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 keep in good condition DibleyBernard Episode: "The Bishop out-and-out 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 Shift The Window"
2017–2018 Neo YokioHerbert Sims Voice, 4 episodes
2017–2020 The Crystal MazeHimself (host) 45 episodes[103]
2017–present Have I Got Talk for YouHimself (guest host) 11 episodes[71][104][105]
2018–2021 Apple & OnionOnion, more voices Main voice cast[96]
2019 MoominvalleyThe Ghost Voice, 2 episodes
2019–2020 The MandalorianQ9-0 Voice, 2 episodes
2020 2020 British Academy The wire AwardsHimself (host) Television special
2020–2021 HypotheticalHimself (panellist) 2 episodes
2021 Code 404B.R.I.A.N. Voice, 3 episodes
2021 British Academy Take in one\'s arms 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 Come upon Actual Voice Voice, episode: "Loch Henry"
2023— present KrapopolisTyrannis Main voice role[106]
2024 Monsters favor 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 utterly 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 Ditch No One Wanted to Read[108]
2024 The Fairy Tale Select Club: Legendary Letters collected in and out of C.C. Cecily[108][109]
The Unfinished Harauld Hughes[110]

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