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What are the cast of 'The IT Crowd' doing now?
A whole decade after Jen first ventured down to the basement of Reynholm Industries, let's take a look at what the talented cast of The IT Crowd are doing now...
Sophie Davies, Cult Box, 10th March 201610 memorable bits from The IT Crowd
When I read that Channel 4's The IT Crowd debuted ten years ago this week, I thought, "Great! This will be a fun and easy topic to write about." As a dedicated fan of this slightly surreal, smart and sometimes slapsticky sitcom, I wouldn't need to do any research. In fact, I could talk about Jen Barber (Katherine Parkinson), Maurice Moss (Richard Ayoade) and Roy Trenneman (Chris O'Dowd), the staffers of Reynholm Industries' subterranean IT department, ad nauseam. Easy peasy, right? Not at all!
Carmen Croghan, Everything I Know About The UK..., 6th February 2016Talk about broadening your remit. Usually, C4's Big Fat Quizzes are merely satisfied with tackling year-sized slices of pop culture and current affairs. This time, though, Jimmy Carr rocks up with a panel game covering a whopping 100,000 years of human history. Guests including Mel Giedroyc, Richard Ayoade, Noel Fielding and Chelsea Peretti attempt to wring whimsy from historical happenings such as witch hunting, landmarks in the biological sciences and - nostalgia alert - 1970s board games.
Mark Gibbings-Jones, The Guardian, 5th January 2016Danger Mouse: The Snowman Cometh review
Brian Blessed and Richard Ayoade join the cast of Danger Mouse for its new Christmas Special, a festive classic in the making...
Pete Dillon-Trenchard, Den Of Geek, 17th December 2015Christmas is cancelled! The double-length special introduces a slightly against-type Brian Blessed as a subdued Santa, and a perfectly cast Richard Ayoade as rubbish villain The Snowman. This icy fiend has atrocious bad-guy patter ("Snow you won't!") and a dastardly plan to overcome his apparent vulnerability to mild heat. Can Danger Mouse and Penfold thaw Earth before Christmas morning? Stay alert for a Walking in the Air gag that's a killer, even if you're five and don't get the reference.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 16th December 2015Just Jim review - quirky, deadpan Welsh teen comedy
The star of Richard Ayoade's Submarine directs an oddly similar story about a smalltown nerd lusting after an unattainable schoolmate
Steve Rose, The Guardian, 24th September 2015On my radar: Richard Ayoade's cultural highlights
The actor and film-maker Richard Ayoade on Björk's powerful brilliance, the gritty films of Mike Nichols and the perfect sound of TS Eliot's poetry.
The Guardian, 28th June 2015The Double review
In 2014, Richard Ayoade presented us with his latest directing project: The Double, an artistic representation of the 1846 Dostoyevsky novel.
Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 13th January 2015A panel of top-drawer celebrities, including Richard Ayoade, David Mitchell, Mel B, Micky Flanagan, Sarah Millican and Kevin Bridges are grilled by Jimmy Carr to see which of them has retained the most knowledge of 2014. To win the crown, they'll need to recall who purred down the phone in September, why Bono issued a worldwide apology in October, and what sporting event was the most-tweeted-about ever in July. Providing assistance are a host of varyingly beloved celebs including Michael Palin, Rio Ferdinand and Lily Allen.
David Stubbs, The Guardian, 19th December 2014The genial triumvirate of Adam Hills, Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe present a special New Year edition of The Last Leg, looking at the noteworthy news stories of the past year. There will be a dick of the year award, which - in a pleasing display of democracy at work - viewers will be able to vote on, while their trademark "is it okay?" question will be joined by "will it be okay?", looking ahead at that grey area of good and bad taste for 2015. The trio will be joined in the studio by bashful polymath Richard Ayoade.
Ben Arnold, The Guardian, 19th December 2014