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In 2008, Ayoade directed the music videos for two Vampire Weekend singles: " Oxford Comma", filmed in one long take, [10] and " Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa". [35] That year he also directed videos for The Last Shadow Puppets songs " Standing Next to Me" and " My Mistakes Were Made for You", the latter of which was inspired by Federico Fellini's Toby Dammit. [10] [36] He directed a live Arctic Monkeys DVD, At the Apollo (2008), recorded at the Manchester Apollo on super 16mm film. It was previewed at Vue cinemas across the UK in October 2008 and released on DVD the next month. [37] Ayoade was featured in Paul King's 2009 film Bunny and the Bull, playing an extremely boring museum tour guide. [38] That year he also directed two music videos for the Arctic Monkeys, " Crying Lightning" and " Cornerstone", and videos for Kasabian's " Vlad the Impaler", starring Fielding, and " Heads Will Roll" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. [36] [39] [40] I read this book because I am an admirer of Richard Ayoade's performance on the British sitcom, The IT Crowd, and his two films, Submarine and The Double. Like many books by comedians, Ayoade on Ayoade is a vehicle for jokes, and most of them are funny. Ayoade is particularly good at making up fake movie plots (see Hot Sauce 2: The Afterburn). In May 2020, it was announced that Ayoade would host the 2020 British Academy Television Awards, [84] [85] which was held behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [86] He returned to host the 2021 and 2022 ceremonies.

Dams, Tim (28 May 2020). "BAFTA Sets New July Dates for Postponed Television and Craft Awards". Variety . Retrieved 29 May 2020.

Channel 4 shelves final episode of Full English". British Comedy Guide. 17 December 2012 . Retrieved 6 March 2018. According to The Sun, he was a "leading candidate" to replace hosts Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc at one point. Can you picture him presiding over proceedings in the Baking Show's famous tent? Richard Ayoade to host socially-distanced TV Baftas". BBC News. 29 May 2020 . Retrieved 29 May 2020.

Gordon, Jeremy (17 June 2016). "Watch Radiohead's New Short Video Directed by Richard Ayoade". Pitchfork . Retrieved 7 March 2018. Annie Lord (30 April 2020). "Laurence Fox reveals brother-in-law Richard Ayoade's furious reaction to Question Time race row". The Independent . Retrieved 27 September 2020. Cambridge Footlights ( Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Penny Dwyer and Paul Shearer)Ayoade often works alongside Julian Barratt, Matt Berry, Noel Fielding, Matthew Holness, and Rich Fulcher. [6] Early life [ edit ] The ADC Theatre, home of Footlights

The book itself is a parody of high-brow interviews with film directors. It probably helps if you've taken a film studies class or two in college, as the satire of this writing style is pretty spot on. Ayoade's interviews are totally ridiculous, however, and this is not a book to read if you want to learn anything purely factual about him. The constant absurdism does raise the question of whether there's anything true in the book, even on a metaphorical level. I think the answer is yes. Macleod, Duncan (9 July 2013). "Virgin Media Bolt vs Blot". The Inspiration Room . Retrieved 6 March 2018. Guardian Authors (27 July 2016). "Pulling to Time Trumpet – TV's most underrated shows". The Guardian.His 2014 interview with British newscaster Krishnan Guru-Murthy went viral because Ayoade used it to turn the tables, hilariously, on the "essential lie" of the whole celebrity interview process. Unlike The Wiggles’ ear worm (sorry Jeff), it’s an oddly affective vision. Each time Gwenyth in Paris appears, I think of myself bored, pre-menstrual, naively drifting through a world of VCDs. Each time Gwenyth in Paris appears, I know I am further from that girl. Ayoade on Ayoade' is, in parts, laugh out loud funny however it is also quite disjointed, especially the book's lengthy appendices which, whilst still good, got a bit boring and repetitive. Whelan, Natalie (13 June 2008). "UK actors win at Golden Nymph Awards". The Guardian . Retrieved 26 January 2018. However it's more than just that. It is entirely held together by a series of footnotes, in fact nearly half of the book is just footnotes. It would make David Foster Wallace proud but made navigating this book on my Kindle a task akin to Dante's journey through the Inferno. The footnotes are full anecdotes within themselves, made up of letters and diary entries and strange Pinteresque short film scripts. The book's subtitle, "A Cinematic Odyssey", is really the best description of it.