Kayvan Novak
- 46 years old
- English
- Actor and writer
Press clippings
Friday Night Live review
What a week to bring back a partially topical comedy show!
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 22nd October 2022TV review: Toast Of Tinseltown, BBC Two
The script is superb and and the visual gags are the icing on the cake, from the 1970s titles (Columbo 1974?) to the gaggle of ancient in-joke celebs in the "Colonial Club" including David Hockney, George Melly and Tom Baker in his Doctor Who iteration.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th January 2022Toast Of Tinseltown review
With no great change from the Channel 4 series, Toast Of Tinseltown might not win this bonkers, larger-than-life creation many more fans beyond its original devoted, but cult-sized fanbase. Nonetheless, it's good to see mainstream TV still has space for this thick-skinned self-centred oddball.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 4th January 2022Toast Of Tinseltown, BBC2, review
Matt Berry's gloriously surreal cult comedy goes to Hollywood.
Gerard Gilbert, i Newspaper, 4th January 2022Toast Of Tinseltown review
Knowingly naff and stuffed with surreal one-liners, this riotously absurd cult comedy sees Britain's worst actor arrive in Hollywood.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 4th January 2022The oral history of Four Lions
A comedy about suicide bombers doesn't exactly jump off the page as a workable film idea. Yet in the 2000s, Chris Morris decided to spend years researching the subject to see if he could pull it off for his debut feature.
Daniel Dylan Wray, Vice.com, 30th July 2020The Day Shall Come review
Morris certainly succeeds in using satire to throw some light onto the shady operations of the FBI, but whether The Day Shall Come succeeds as a gripping, convincing story or astute comedy is mooter. But there's plenty of food for thought generated from the subject matter.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 11th October 2019The Day Shall Come: review
Marchánt Davis gives a star-making performance in Chris Morris's half-baked satire.
Tim Robey, The Telegraph, 10th October 2019The Day Shall Come review
The truth is stranger than fiction in Chris Morris' first film since 2010's Four Lions.
Steven Sheehan, The Digital Fix, 8th October 2019The Day Shall Come: Marchant Davis & Kayvan Novak
The stars of Chris Morris' blistering new satire about the FBI's recruitment of terrorists discuss the topics comedies should or shouldn't avoid.
Yahoo, 7th October 2019