Richard Ayoade
Richard Ayoade

Richard Ayoade

  • 46 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer, presenter and script editor

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Stars in Andy Murray sketch for Stand Up To Cancer

The former Wimbledon champion will show his funny side in a Stand Up To Cancer spoof where he oversees auditions for roles in the film of his life with Richard Ayoade, Gordon Ramsay, Michael Sheen, Rory McIlroy, Sir Terry Wogan, Pharrell Williams, Britney Spears and many more taking part.

Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 1st October 2014

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was weird, but also truly original and brilliantly funny. A show-within-a-show, it saw Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade's popular Edinburgh Fringe character, the eponymous horror writer and egomaniac (played by Holness), present his fictional, never-aired TV show, intercut with interviews with cast and crew. It captured the spirit of hammy Eighties action shows, with acting and special effects appalling enough to make Ed Wood look like Steven Spielberg. Being aired late at night with very little advertising actually worked in the show's favour: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace became the true "lost classic" that Marenghi himself always proclaimed it to be.

Chris Taylor, The Telegraph, 13th September 2014

Richard Ayoade on being true to yourself

Actor, author and 'coolest' man in London Richard Ayoade talks about life after The IT Crowd.

Damian Whitworth, The Times, 2nd August 2014

BAFTA TV Awards 2014 - comedy winners

A League Of Their Own, Him & Her, Katherine Parkinson and Richard Ayoade were amongst the winners at the BAFTA TV Awards 2014.

British Comedy Guide, 18th May 2014

British comedian John Oliver has last laugh in the US

He performed with David Mitchell and Richard Ayoade in Cambridge Footlights but John Oliver had to emigrate to gain recognition.

Ian Burrell, The Independent, 27th April 2014

Richard Ayoade on directing his surreal second film

To fans of hit comedy The IT Crowd, Richard Ayoade will probably always be known as super-geek Moss, but his second film The Double sees him carving out a name as a talented director.

Sarah Jane Griffiths, BBC News, 7th April 2014

Radio Times review

Alan Carr: Chatty Man may have won the 2014 Royal Television Society Award for best entertainment performance, but there's no doubt that The Graham Norton Show is the one that attracts the best A-list guests.

Settling down on his sofa are Hollywood stars Russell Crowe (who indiscreetly voted Cate Blanchett the best on-screen kisser the last time he appeared on the show) and Cameron Diaz (who lassoed a fake cow - don't ask - but this time is probably plugging her relationship comedy The Other Woman).

Joining them are The Voice UK mentor Kylie Minogue and Richard Ayoade, whose new movie The Double has just opened.

Jane Rackham, Radio Times, 4th April 2014

Richard Ayoade on The Double

How do you make a convincing film about a man with an identical-looking, but completely different-acting, doppelganger? Director Richard Ayoade says that sort of challenge is what made The Double star Jesse Eisenberg the only actor he wanted for the role.

Jack Seale, Radio Times, 4th April 2014

The cast of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace: 10 years on

What have Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe and Matt Berry been up to in the decade since Garth Marenghi's Darkplace?

Sarah Dobbs, Den Of Geek, 3rd April 2014

Interview with Richard Ayoade

A couple of weeks ago we were lucky enough to be invited to meet the man himself, to talk to him about his latest film and to find out why he's glad that it hasn't yet been compared to Nutty Profressor 2.

The Velvet Onion, 31st March 2014

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