Matt Berry

Onion on site: Toast Q&A

TVO's newest recruit, Jess Gerber, recently attended the series launch, which featured a Q&A from the show's writers Matt Berry and Arthur Mathews.

Matt Berry interview

Jon Hamm joins the comedian for the latest series of Channel 4 sitcom Toast of London.

Radio Times review

Steven Toast, the volcanic, pathologically self-absorbed actor, emerges from the debacle of a Lorraine interview stricken with stage fright. He's doing Macbeth in the open air in Regent's Park but is blissfully unaware, until Lorraine tells him, that it's being screened live for ITV's Night of Culture.

It's a thin episode to open a new series of the cult, award-winning comedy, with far too few rank idiocies and not enough laughs. Still, Clem Fandango, the hipster buffoon who torments Toast (Matt Berry) from behind the mixing desk in the voiceover studio, is back - as is the lubricious Mrs Purchase (Tracy-Ann Oberman). But a central story featuring Toast, Stanley Kubrick and a fake Moon landing needs more oomph.

Matt Berry interview

"Channel 4 didn't want me to mention Dickie Davies!"

Matt Berry on fishcakes, Toast of London and Roy Keane

On tour, on telly and all over the place, the comedy star takes on our First & Last quiz.

Toast Of London star Matt Berry revealed at the launch of the third series last week that Channel 4 high-ups had reservations about the largely theatre-based exploits of the struggling actor - it had too much theatre in it. "It's no-one who's here but the top brass at [Channel] 4 when we first brought this to them said, this is fine but let's not dwell too much in the theatre," said Berry. "What do you do? Then that kind of disappeared and it was fine, but there was this worry at the start. I don't know whether they thought that people who watched Channel 4 didn't know what the theatre was."

Online review: Matt Berry Does...Ghosts, BBC iPlayer

The latest short online micro-comedy from fruity-voiced Matt Berry takes its inspiration from Halloween. "UK ghosts are real and they are here to stay...they make you shit yourself," Berry explains at the outset.

Toast of London series three is packed

Matt Berry's comedy hit returns to Channel 4 next month - and Ben Dowell got a sneak peek as some recognisable faces pop up.

The charm didn't really endure into the second series of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's sitcom (which was recently cancelled by the Beeb) but this - the first episode of the first series - is a fine reminder of their absurdist comic strengths. Bob is dismayed that his oddball lodger, Vic, is cramping his style. It's particularly problematic tonight, as his neighbour Beef (Matt Berry) has arranged a date for Bob with a woman "charred, like a tugboat". The plan is to watch Conan the Barbarian on TV. But what has Vic done with the TV?

Jon Hamm is guest starring in Toast of London

Yes I can hear you, Don Draper: Jon Hamm is to guest star in Matt Berry's Toast Of London.