Toast Of London

Toast of London: series 3, episode 5 review

This episode is firing on all cylinders, some rectangular prisms, and a rhombus; reaching 'house falling down around them' heights of hilarity.

Radio Times review

It's business as usual for the final episode, which is to say moments of brilliance and stretches that go a bit tepid. But that's the deal with Toast: you put up with the iffy bits for the occasional dash of comic glory you wouldn't find anywhere else.

Our luckless curmudgeon gets a job at the Globe in a production of Twelfth Night by radical director Daz Klondyke. It's to be performed by a cast of dogs as "a metaphor for what's happening in Syria". Yes, it's daft, but if you want an idea of the series' celebrity fans, look out for cameos from Jude Law, Martin Freeman, Sheila Hancock and others. They're all basically agreeing that Toast is, as Sam Mendes puts it, "a colossal t**t".

Radio Times review

Our favourite booming buffoon has landed a part in a West End play called Man of Sex by Gaviscon Kerchief. Also appearing is Toast's nemesis Ray ("bloody") Purchase, and worse, Ray's albino twin Bill has turned up in London looking to make trouble. It's a perfect storm for our man, but at least he has the consolation of a new girlfriend, though the fact she's a doctor of drumming is proving troublesome.

It doesn't add up to a vintage Toast plot but there are incidental pleasures, like Timothy West in a cameo as an old-school actor with a drink problem, and Toast's opening humiliation at the voiceover studio is a new low: he's made to do sound effects.

Toast of London: series 3, episode 4 - Bob a Job review

An impressive episode of TOL. Very 'stream on consciousness' writing, classic loosely connected plot, and featuring a live performance of the usual musical interlude.

Matt Berry: I don't know if there'll be more Toast

"I love doing Toast and it's done me more good than anything else I've done," he enthuses. "I want to do more of it, but I don't know when it could be and I don't know if there'll be a new series. I've other things I want to do."

Matt Berry's Christmas Q&A

The comedian and musician says it doesn't feel like Christmas until he panics, and reveals what his character Steven Toast would do on the big day.

Berry set to make history by playing theme tune live

Toast of London star Matt Berry will be playing the theme tune to his Channel 4 series live on Wednesday, in what the broadcaster says is a global television first. The BAFTA award-winner, who plays eccentric actor Steven Toast, will be performing Take My Hand - the series' theme tune - live from a studio over the end credits of episode four, which airs on 9th December. According to Channel 4 this kind of live performance has "never been done before".

Toast of London: series 3, episode 3 review

The strongest of the season so far. Featuring the inexplicably charming Jon Hamm, Brian Blessed, and the world's tallest castle.

Toast takes a spill down some stairs, and after bashing his noggin on some masonry finds himself beguiled by Jon Hamm, who makes a special guest appearance this week as himself. Hamm moves in opposite Toast and Ed's crumbling billet on Meard Street, and a charming courtship begins, but it threatens to be derailed with news that Toast's father Gonville (a brilliantly booming Brian Blessed) is on his last legs. With his estate to secure, Toast races to Somerset with his brother Blair to claim his birthright. Lovely stuff.

Toast and Hamm: the making of great TV guest stars

The Mad Men star is on Channel 4 on Wednesday, putting a spin on a gag that stretches from Morecambe and Wise to The Simpsons and Friends.