Ayoade on Top

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It’s always the same scene that pops up: the one where Gwenyth finally gets to Paris and she’s in her hotel room alone, and outside the window is the Eiffel Tower, the real Eiffel Tower, not her poster version, but since it’s an early 00s low-mid budget movie it’s actually lower res than the poster. Ayoade on Ayoade' is, in parts, laugh out loud funny however it is also quite disjointed, especially the book's lengthy appendices which, whilst still good, got a bit boring and repetitive. Anders, Charlie Jane (2 April 2014). "The Failed U.S. Remake Of The IT Crowd Is Fascinating To Watch". Gizmodo . Retrieved 26 January 2018. In February 2006, Ayoade began playing technically brilliant, but socially awkward, IT technician Maurice Moss in the sitcom The IT Crowd on Channel 4, appearing with Chris O'Dowd, Katherine Parkinson, Chris Morris, and later on, Matt Berry. The series' creator Graham Linehan wrote the part specifically for Ayoade. [29] In 2008, Ayoade won the award for an outstanding actor in a television comedy series at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival for his performance. [30] In 2009, Ayoade co-starred with Joel McHale in the pilot for an American version of The IT Crowd, reprising his role with the same appearance and personality; however, no series was commissioned, and the pilot never aired. [31] The original The IT Crowd ran for four seasons until 2010, with a special airing in 2013, for which Ayoade won a BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance. [32] [33] Richard Ayoade and Jonathan Ross endorse Graham Linehan memoir about being 'cancelled' ". The Independent. 15 September 2023 . Retrieved 17 September 2023.

Frenette, Brad (27 July 2010). "Toronto International Film Fest announces 2010 lineup". National Post . Retrieved 19 October 2012. See Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade in the Lego Movie 2". Chortle. 20 January 2019 . Retrieved 8 October 2019. Reading Ayoade’s book in Hong Kong in 2020, no longer on holiday but just on life, in a world so different to the one where Top entered, completes a strange triangle of cultural artefact and consumer. A triangle that means absolutely nothing to anyone else, but a bit of something to me. a b Kemp, Stuart (1 February 2012). "Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska Join 'The Double' Cast". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 6 March 2018.For whatever reason (perhaps the same reason that sometimes The Wiggles’ sole line of “fruit salad, yummy yummy”, will course through my mind while I’m in a Professional Business Meeting, or 26m below the Java Sea, or mid-coitus, or any other yummy yummy fruit salad-absent scenario), scenes from Top have followed me ever since that fateful summer.

He's directed music videos for indie bands including Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, and Kasabian.

I read this book because I am an admirer of Richard Ayoade's performance on the British sitcom, The IT Crowd, and his two films, Submarine and The Double. Like many books by comedians, Ayoade on Ayoade is a vehicle for jokes, and most of them are funny. Ayoade is particularly good at making up fake movie plots (see Hot Sauce 2: The Afterburn).

Whelan, Natalie (13 June 2008). "UK actors win at Golden Nymph Awards". The Guardian . Retrieved 26 January 2018. Ayoade has frequently appeared on panel shows, most prominently on The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, and served as a team captain on Was It Something I Said? (2013). He presented the factual shows Gadget Man (2013–2015), its spin-off Travel Man (2015–2019), and the revival of The Crystal Maze (2017-2020). He has also voiced characters in a number of animated projects, including the films The Boxtrolls (2014), Early Man (2018), The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019), Soul (2020), and The Bad Guys (2022), as well as the series Strange Hill High (2013–2014), Apple & Onion (2018–2021), Disenchantment (2021), and Krapopolis (2023–present).Taylor, Frances (7 July 2017). "As host of The Crystal Maze, Richard Ayoade is actually even better than Richard O'Brien". Radio Times . Retrieved 8 October 2019. According to The Sun, he was a "leading candidate" to replace hosts Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc at one point. Can you picture him presiding over proceedings in the Baking Show's famous tent? Gritten, David (10 March 2011). "Richard Ayoade: Hidden depths of the bashful filmmaker". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 7 March 2018. Keough, Peter (17 June 2011). "Interview with Richard Ayoade, director of Submarine". The Phoenix . Retrieved 4 January 2015.

Of course his ramblings and in depth analogies of the scenes were what kept the book together, kept it funny and kept me going, although sometimes, being as wordy as it was, it was hard to follow sometimes. I was expecting something more like a memoir but Ayoade really sounds like a high class film reviewer as he discusses certain dialogue or scenes, or at least he would if he wasn't subvertently and completely taking the piss out of it. Cochrane, Greg (20 May 2009). "Kasabian ready 'psychedelic' LP". Newsbeat. BBC News . Retrieved 6 March 2018. Cambridge Footlights ( Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Penny Dwyer and Paul Shearer) If you like your humour high class and silly this book is for you. It's short (like this review) but you really need to pay attention and in all honesty it was the perfect length for what it contained and talked about.I would love to read more Ayoade, but the international postal service here is on indefinite hiatus. So I’ll end with this delightful silliness: Blais-Billie, Braudie (25 September 2018). "Watch the Breeders' New Richard Ayoade-Directed "Spacewoman" Video". Pitchfork . Retrieved 4 October 2018.