Richard Ayoade

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Richard Ellef Ayoade (born 23 May 1977) is an English comedian, writer, filmmaker, and television presenter.

Maurice Moss, the socially awkward IT technician on Channel 4's The IT Crowd (2006–2013), for which he received the 2014 BAFTA Gold Award for Best Male Comedy Result.

He has worked with Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Matthew Holness, and Rich Fulcher in Hammersmith, Ayoade. (1998-1999).

During the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2000, Matthew Holness introduced Dean Learner and Garth Marenghi, bringing the characters to life with Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004) and Man to Man (2006), respectively.

Before being recognized for his work in The IT Crowd, Ayoade appeared on comedy shows The Mighty Boosh (2004–2007) and Nathan Barley (2005).

Ayoade wrote and directed Submarine, an adaptation of Joe Dunthorne's 2008 novel, after directing music videos for Arctic Monkeys, Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah, and Kasabian.

Ayoade appeared in The Watch, an American science fiction film, in 2012, and his second film, The Double Blinders, descended on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novella of the same name. Ayoade has appeared on panel shows, mainly on The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, and has served as a team captain on Was It Something I Said? In 2013, the year was 2013.

Gadget Man (2013–15), its spin-off Travel Man (2015–2019), and the 2017 revival of The Crystal Maze were among his appearances on the television show Gadget Man (2013–2019).

He has appeared in a number of animated films, including the films The Boxtrolls (2014) and Early Man (2018), as well as the television series Strange Hill High (2013-2014) and Apple & Onion (since 2018).

Beginning with Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey (2014), Ayoade has written three comedic books centered on film, beginning with Ayoade on Film.

Early life

Richard Ellef Ayoade was born in London's Hammersmith district on May 23, 1977, the son of a Norwegian mother and Nigerian father. When he was young, the family moved to Ipswich. At the age of 15, he became interested in "beyond Star Wars and Back to the Future" and started looking at directors Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman, and Federico Fellini's work. He attended St Joseph's College in Ipswich, where he recalls being "obsessed" with J. D. Salinger's book The Catcher in the Rye. He was so fixated with the book that he began dressing like Holden Caulfield, the book's protagonist.

Ayoade studied law at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he received the Martin Steele Award for play production and was president of the amateur theatrical group Footlights from 1995 to 1998. Between a Rock and a Hard Place, John Oliver, a vice president of Footlights, wrote and appeared in several productions together, including Emotional Baggage (directed by Matthew Holness) and Between a Rock and a Hard Place (directed by Cal McCrystal). Ayoade claims that his parents would not approve of research that could be characterized as "Regency period," adding that "a non-vocational degree seemed like an outlandish indulgence." His law degree was no longer a viable "fallback" for him, according to him, and he'd have to "go back to square one" to get back to square one."

Personal life

Lydia Fox, a Fox family of actors, married Ayoade in 2007. They have three children and live in London's East Dulwich neighborhood. Laurence Fox, the actor's brother-in-law, is among his siblings. After a tumultuous appearance on Question Time, Fox courted Ayoade's chagrin publicly in 2020, when he begged Ayoade to confirm his love for him on Twitter. The episode in question was mocked for allowing Fox to be a guest, particularly when he told a Black woman in the audience that discussing race was "boring." "You've never heard racism," Ayoade told him on Fox. Fox said he told Ayoade he had because "he served in Kenya once" and that "racism can be deferential."

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Career

Matthew Holness, who also attended the Footlights in 2000, co-wrote Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight, and Ayoade co-wrote the stage show The Fright Knight, a Perpetual Award. Garth Marenghi, a fictional horror writer, and Ayoade's character Dean Learner, Marenghi's publisher, were among the first two shows on the program. He received the Perrier Comedy Award in 2001 for co-writing and appearing in Garth Marenghi's Netherhead, the sequel to Fright Knight. The Marenghi character appeared on Channel 4 in 2004, bringing the spoof horror comedy series Darkplace to Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Ayoade wrote, directed, and appeared in the film, which saw Marenghi and Learner appear in a 1980s television drama that was never broadcast. Thornton Reed, a hospital administrator, was the subject of this lesson. Ayoade, co-wrote, and co-starred in AD/BC: A Rock Opera, which parodies life-of-Christ rock operas and aired on BBC Three in December 2004. Matt Berry, Matt Berry, directed, co-wrote, and co-starred in AD/BC: A Rock Opera, which parodies life-of-Christ rock operas and debuted on BBC Three in December 2004. Ayoade wrote an article about the sketch show Bruiser in 2000, which starred former Footlights president David Mitchell and Robert Webb, as well as Holness. In the HBO television film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Ayoade appeared in a bit-part as a reporter.

Ayoade was a member of the original cast of Barratt and Fielding's The Boosh television series, having appeared in Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding's radio series The Boosh. Dixon Bainbridge, a volatile villain, was originally selected to play him. However, by the time the radio show went live, he was still under licence by Channel 4 and was only able to appear in the pilot before leaving The Boosh. Matt Berry, a fellow Darkplace actor and potential IT Crowd co-star, was given the role. He appeared in the second series of the nefarious shaman Saboo in 2005. In the third series, Ayoade resurrecting his role as script editor and acting as script editor. Ned Smanks appeared in Chris Morris' and Charlie Brooker's sitcom Nathan Barley in 2005. Dean Learner of Ayoade was revived in 2006 to host a comedy chat show, Man to Man with Dean Learner, on Channel 4. Holness hosted the different guests every week. In 2006, Ayoade appeared in the satirical comedy series Time Trumpet, which is set in the year 2031, and saw Ayoade and other celebrities reminiscing about the year 2007 and later.

In February 2006, Ayoade's technically gifted but socially awkward IT technician Maurice Moss appeared on Channel 4's The IT Crowd, starring Chris O'Dowd, Peter Parkinson, Chris Morris, and later on, Matt Berry. Graham Linehan, the series's creator, wrote the part specifically for Ayoade. In 2008, Ayoade was named for an outstanding actor in a television comedy series at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival for his performance. Ayoade co-starred with Joel McHale in the pilot for an American version of The IT Crowd in 2009, re-imagining his appearance and appearance; however, no series was released; and the pilot never aired. The original The IT Crowd ran for four seasons before 2010, with a special edition on airing in 2013 for Best Male Comedy Performance, which received a BAFTA award.

He produced the music videos for Arctic Monkeys and Super Furry Animals' "Run-Away"'s "Fluorescent Adolescent" and Matt Berry's "Run-Away" in 2007. The former received a UK Music Video Award nomination, with Ayoade attributed solely to the album's being "good." Ayoade has regularly appeared on The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, often with Noel Fielding, making his first appearance on Channel 4's 25th anniversary in 2007.

In 2008, Ayoade supervised the music videos for two Vampire Weekend singles: "Oxford Comma" (filmed in a single long take), and "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa). He also produced videos for the Last Shadow Puppets' "Standing Next to Me" and "My Mistakes Were Made for You" this year, the former of which was inspired by Federico Fellini's Toby Dammit. At the Apollo (2008), he produced a live Arctic Monkeys DVD, which was shot on a super 16mm camera at the Manchester Apollo. It was screened at Vue cinemas around the country in October 2008 and then released on DVD the next month. In Paul King's 2009 film Bunny and the Bull, Ayoade appeared as a very boring museum tour guide. He produced two music videos for the Arctic Monkeys, "Crying Lightning" and "Cornerstone," as well as Kasabian's "Vlad the Impaler" and "Heads Will Roll" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Ayoade's debut directorial feature, Submarine, was a coming-of-age comedy-drama that he adapted from Joe Dunthorne's 2008 book of the same name. Craig Roberts and Yasmin Paige appear in the film, as well as Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor, and Paddy Considine. As Oliver Tate (Roberts), he becomes obsessed with a classmate (Paige) and the chaos of his parents' broken marriage, it follows. It premiered at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010, was released in the United Kingdom in March 2011, and was released in the United States in June after being picked up by the Weinstein Company for North America. Arctic Monkeys and The Last Shadow Puppets frontman Alex Turner contributed five original songs to the soundtrack, inspired by Simon & Garfunkel's music in The Graduate (1967). Critics lauded the film, with The Guardian writer Peter Bradshaw describing Ayoade as a "tremendous new voice in British cinema." At the 65th British Academy Film Awards, Ayoade was nominated for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Producer, or Producer.

In the second season of the comedy show "Critical Film Studies," Ayoade directed the Community episode "Critical Film Studies." Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield paid tribute to the 1981 film My Dinner with Andre and was named as the "most brilliant half-hour of television to arrive in this century." Ayoade later supervised a tour of comedian Tommy Tiernan's world stand-up tour, Crooked Man, which was first released in November 2011. Ayoade appeared on Channel 4's ill-received animated sitcom Full English, which aired for just five episodes before being cancelled. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Jonah Hill appeared in the science fiction film The Watch as a neighborhood watch group uncovers alien powers threatening the planet. Critics generally did not like the film, but Ayoade's performance was lauded. The A.V.'s Keith Phipps. The film's "brightest scenes" were provided by Ayoade, according to Club founder Michael Phillips, although Chicago Tribune reporter Michael Phillips said Ayoade was "the reason it isn't entirely lame." Todd Lagoona, an anthropomorphic hammerhead shark who was a regular character in Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy, appeared in Ayoade's Luxo Ayoade in 2012.

In the CBBC animated film Strange Hill High from 2013 to 2014, Ayoade voiced Templeton, the class nerd. In the second season of Channel 4's Gadget Man, Stephen Fry was replaced as host, and the second season was also shown. Ayoade's collection of innovative products and accessories were included in the series. He was also the host of the spin-off series Travel Man, where he spent 48 hours in a different location each episode with a celebrity celebrity guest. He served as the team captain on Channel 4's flagship program Was It Something I Said?, which premiered in October 2013 and co-starred David Mitchell as host and Micky Flanagan as co-capt. In 2013, Ayoade heard Roald Dahl's children book The Twits for Penguin Audio's audiobook collection, and Virgin Media unveiled an audiobook campaign starring Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, who played Ayoade. He was the voice-over for Apple's iPhone 6 UK campaign with Chris O'Dowd in 2014. He has also appeared on Channel 4's 8 out of ten Cats Does Countdown, which is usually at least once per season.

The Double, Ayoade's second feature film, was based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1846 novella The Double; it was written by Ayoade and Avi Korine, with actress Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska. It concerns a timid man who is becoming dissatisfied with the appearance of his adoring doppelgänger, both of whom are played by Eisenberg. It was released in April 2014 to generally glowing feedback, drawing comparisons to Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985) in terms of images and narrative. Mr. Pickles, the film's antagonist Snatcher, was voiced by Ben Kingsley in the stop-motion animated fantasy film The Boxtrolls (2014).

Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey, Faber and Faber's first book, was released in October 2014. It parodies Faber's Directors on Directors series, in which critically respected filmmakers discuss their work, as well as Ayoade's regular interviews with himself where he addresses his career and admiration for the field of cinema. In several episodes of the 2015 animated film Danger Mouse, Ayoade portrayed a villainous snowman. As part of a series of video vignettes to advertise their album "Woef," he produced a short music video for the Radiohead song "Tinker Tailor Soldier Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief" in June 2016.

Following the success of a celebrity charity special revival hosted by Stephen Merchant, Ayoade took over as host of the Channel 4 game show The Crystal Maze in 2017. Maurice Moss' style of presenting has been described as being "more cerebral and intense version" of his IT Crowd character. In 2017, Ayoade made a cameo appearance in Paddington 2 as a forensic investigator and was part of Vampire Weekend Ezra Koenig's animated series Neo Yokio in the same year. In October 2017, he released The Grip Of Film, his second book. An A-Z of films and what makes them popular with footnotes from Ayoade, written in the perspective of clueless film enthusiast Gordy LaSure in its canon. He has been guest hosted a number of episodes of Have I Got News for You, beginning in late 2017. In 2018, Ayoade appeared in an advertisement for HSBC, which discussed other countries' cultural influence on the United Kingdom ahead of Brexit; in the Ayoade's stop-motion film Early Man (2018), a Stone Age caveman.

Since February 2018, Ayoade has voiced Onion, one of the cartoon Network animated series Apple & Onion's key characters. In 2018, he returned to music video directing, directing the science fiction-inspired video for The Breeders' song "Spacewoman." In both parts of Joanna Hogg's two-part drama The Souvenir, Ayoade was featured as a pompous artist in a supporting role. He lent his voice as a talking ice cream cone to the animated comedy sequel The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) – which also included Noel Fielding – and the Finnish version of the Finnish series Moominvalley. Ayoade provided voice work for the Star Wars Disney+ series The Mandalorian (2019), in which he performed the droid Zero in a recurring role. On Netflix, he also appeared on the animated adult fantasy sitcom Disenchantment (2021), where he portrayed the character Alva Gunderson.

Gwyneth Paltrow, his third book to be published by Faber and Faber, is a tongue-in-cheek salute to the critically acclaimed romantic comedy Ayoade on Top is a tongue-in-cheek ode to the critically ill-regarded romantic comedy View from the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow. In a 2019 list of the 50 best comedians of the 21st century, The Financial Times included Ayoade on top in its collection of the best books of the year, and Ayoade ranked 33rd of the top comedians of the 21st century.

It was revealed in May 2020 that Ayoade would host the 2020 British Academy Television Awards, which were held behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He has returned to host the 2021 bash.

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