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Richard Ayoade

Richard Ayoade (born 1977 in Whipps Cross, London) is an English comedian and actor. Recently, he has also dabbled in music-related film directing. His father is from Nigeria and his mother is from Norway.

Ayoade studied in Ipswich, Suffolk and later studied law at St Catharine's College, Cambridge where he became president of the prestigious Footlights.[

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Richard Ayoade - what members say

Man To Man With Dean Learner review by stpfitz from Downpatrick

Fantastic! 12 April 2008
...ays six different characters being interviewed by the Porn baron Dean Learner ( Richard Ayoade ). Each character is mad in their own way! I espectially liked the American act...

AD/BC - A Rock Opera review by SiClark from London

AD/BC 29 December 2007
...ar a little thin by the end. It is not devoid of laughs, hearing Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade singing in high pitch voices is a amazing, as is Berry's talent for composing a...

Richard Ayoade - filmography

Bunny And The Bull - BLU-RAY Version (2008)
Starring: Ed Hogg, Simon Farnaby, Noel Fielding
Director: Paul King
Certificate:
Stephen (Edward Hogg) is a profoundly neurotic young man suffering from agoraphobia, though this is a relatively recent development, and as he ponders the dim prospect of going out for food, he recalls a vacation in Europe with his former best friend Bunny (Simon Farnaby). While Stephen is quiet ..read more »

Rate this: 70% from 3 members

- our price: £7.93
The IT Crowd - Series 3 on DVD (2008)
Starring: Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson
Director: Graham Linehan
Certificate:
Written by Graham Linehan (Father Ted, Black Books) and produced by Ash Atalla (The Office), The IT Crowd centres on the worlds of Roy, Moss and Jen who make up the IT department of Reynholm Industries. While their social betters work upstairs in fantastic surroundings, the IT dept. work in a ..read more »

Rate this: 82% from 2,415 members

- our price: £11.93
Time Trumpet on DVD (2008)
Starring: Armando Ianucci, Richard Ayoade, Stewart Lee
Director: Armando Iannucci
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Armando Ianucci presents a satirical look at the present onwards... from the future. Witness an increasingly bizzare Tom Cruise, Tesco invading Denmark, George Lucas' CGI enhanced funeral and many more hilarious memories yet to happen.

Rate this: 61% from 891 members

- our price: £6.93
The IT Crowd - Series 2 on DVD (2006)
Starring: Richard Ayoade, Chris Morris, Chris O'Dowd
Director: Graham Linehan
Certificate:
The brand new sitcom written by Graham Linehan (Father Ted, Black Books) and produced by Ash Atalla (The Office), The IT Crowd centres on the worlds of Roy, Moss and Jen who make up the IT department of Reynholm Industries. While their social betters work upstairs in fantastic surroundings, the IT ..read more »

Rate this: 80% from 3,792 members

- our price: £6.93
The IT Crowd - Series 1 on DVD (2005)
Starring: Richard Ayoade, Chris Morris, Chris O'Dowd
Director: Ben Fuller, Graham Linehan
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From the creators of FATHER TED and THE OFFICE comes THE IT CROWD, the popular British sitcom that’s taking the world by storm. Relegated to a dingy basement, Moss, Jen and Roy are their company’s last line of technological defence; they are the IT crowd.

Rate this: 81% from 4,287 members

- our price: £13.93
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace on DVD (2004)
Starring: Matthew Holness, Matt Berry, Alice Lowe
Director: Richard Ayoade
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This spoof series invites you to see a 'long lost' 1980s TV chiller from acclaimed novelist, Garth Marenghi. With hammy acting and a ridiculously shoddy filmmaking technique, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace makes for seriously funny viewing.

Rate this: 78% from 2,617 members

- our price: £13.93
Man To Man With Dean Learner on DVD
Starring: Richard Ayoade, Matthew Holness
Director: Richard Ayoade, Ben Kellett
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Live from his luxury apartment in London's glittering East End, Dean Learner: club owner, celebrity manager, restaurateur, entrepreneur and publisher of high-class gentlemen's magazines, invites you to meet some of his closest friends, Man to Man.

Rate this: 68% from 572 members

- our price: £9.93
AD/BC - A Rock Opera on DVD
Starring: Matt Berry, Julia Davis, Julian Barratt
Director: Richard Ayoade
Certificate:
An all-singing, all-dancing, star-spangled musical leap around the biblical story of the Nativity, set in 1972. With a comic twist, this familiar story is brought to life through the eyes of the innkeeper. Despairing after a bad year, he contemplates suicide but his attempt is stalled by a voice ..read more »

Rate this: 63% from 495 members

Richard Ayoade facts

5 most recent films

Bunny And The Bull - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
The IT Crowd - Series 3 - 4.0 stars
Time Trumpet - 3.0 stars
The IT Crowd - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
The IT Crowd - Series 1 - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The IT Crowd - Series 3 - 4.0 stars
The IT Crowd - Series 1 - 4.0 stars
The IT Crowd - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - 4.0 stars
Man To Man With Dean Learner - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Bunny And The Bull - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Time Trumpet - 3.0 stars
AD/BC - A Rock Opera - 3.0 stars
Man To Man With Dean Learner - 3.5 stars
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Matt Berry - 4 times - show films
Matthew Holness - 4 times - show films
Noel Fielding - 4 times - show films
Julian Barratt - 3 times - show films
Chris O'Dowd - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Graham Linehan - 3 times - show films
Ben Kellett - 2 times - show films
Armando Iannucci - 1 times - show films
Ben Fuller - 1 times - show films
Paul King - 1 times - show films