Meet Steven Toast (Matt Berry, The IT Crowd, House of Fools) - actor, ladies' man and aficionado of some of Soho's finest drinking clubs. With the often misguided assistance of his old-school 'retro' agent Jane Plough (Doon Mackichan, Smack the Pony, Plebs) and peculiar flatmate Ed Howzer-Black (Robert Bathurst, Cold Feet, Downton Abbey), Toast faces a multitude of obstacles in his quest for fame and recognition. These include murderous director Acker Herron, arch-nemesis Ray Bloody' Purchase, submarines, Bruce Forsyth lookalikes, obsessive hoarders, Freemasonry, and the real Michael Ball. Special Features: Series 1: The Pilot Episode Audio Commentary with Michael Cumming (Director), Matt Berry (Writer), Arthur Mathews (Writer) and Kate Daughton (Producer) Burnt Toast, Making Toast, The Forsyth Sage, Toast and Purchase Art Film Dub Toast sings a song about London The Theme from Toast of London Unplugged 'My Name is Michael Ball' ... a short film about Michael Ball On the Analyst's Couch The Songs Series 2: Audio Commentary of Desperate Measures with Matt Berry (Writer) Arthur Matthews (Writer) Michael Cumming (Director) and Kate Daughton (Producer) Audio Commentary of Fool in Love with Matt Berry (Writer) Arthur Matthews (Writer) Michael Cumming (Director) and Kate Daughton (Producer) Mo' Burned Toast Series 2 Songs Deleted Scenes Steven Toast's Voiceover Showreel 'My Turn' Toast Autobiography On the Analyst's Couch Part II: Steven Toast recalls some of his most memorable stage roles.
The most talked about and reviewed comedy series ever! 6 Episodes and Brass Eye Special: 'Animals' 'Drugs' 'Science' 'Sex' 'Crime' 'Moral Decline' Brass Eye Special!(
In 2004 a fine art graduate from Bedford near London met a law principal from Chicago America. Together they produced one of the most stunning best kept secrets in British Comedy. Shown only once back in early 2006 and due to the nature of the material the programme couldn't air until 11pm at night. In spite of this word spread and the cult was born. Matt berry and Rich Fulcher star as two hangmen. The pair spend their days hanging condemned souls for cash chasing women and sitting in their rather posh gentleman's club sipping whiskey.
Steven Toast (Matt Berry The IT Crowd House of Fools) is back. Struggling actor and resident of Soho's famous theatreland the hapless thespian returns for more misadventures alongside his inept agent Jane Plough (Doon Mackichan Smack the Pony Plebs) and peculiar flatmate Ed Howzer-Black (Robert Bathurst Cold Feet Downton Abbey). This time he faces amongst other challenges a prostitutes’ and celebrity blow-football tournament the horror of being buried alive freemasonry and of course his arch-nemesis Ray 'Bloody' Purchase. Can Toast win out and secure the glamorous acting roles he's sure his immense talent deserves? Special Features: Audio Commentary of Desperate Measures with Matt Berry (Writer) Arthur Matthews (Writer) Michael Cumming (Director) and Kate Daughton (Producer) Audio Commentary of Fool in Love with Matt Berry (Writer) Arthur Matthews (Writer) Michael Cumming (Director) and Kate Daughton (Producer) Mo' Burned Toast Series 2 Songs Deleted Scenes Steven Toast's Voiceover Showreel 'My Turn' Toast Autobiography On the Analyst's Couch Part II: Steven Toast recalls some of his most memorable stage roles.
Chris Morris' Brass Eye is a brilliantly funny spoof on current affairs media that carries on where his previous The Day Today left off. The show ran for one single, contentious series in 1997, to be followed by an even more controversial one-off in 2001. While these episodes might cause offence to those not versed in Morris' satirical methods, and while one occasionally suspects his work is informed by a dark seam of malice and loathing rather than a desire to educate, Brass Eye remains vital satire, magnificently hilarious and, in its own way, fiercely moral viewing. Brass Eye satirises a media far too interested in generating dramatic heat and urgency for its own sake than in shedding light on serious issues. Morris mimics perfectly the house style of programmes such as Newsnight and Crimewatch, with their spurious props and love of gimmickry. Meanwhile his presenter--an uncanny composite of Jeremy Paxman, Michael Buerk and Richard Madeley among others--delivers absurd items about man-fighting weasels in the East End and Lear-esque lines such as "the twisted brain wrong of a one-off man mental" with preposterously solemn authority. Much as the media itself is wont to do, each programme works itself up into a ridiculous fever of moral panic. Most telling is the "drugs" episode, in which, as ever, real-life celebrities, including Jimmy Greaves and Sir Bernard Ingham, are persuaded to lend their name to a campaign against a new drug from Eastern Europe entitled Cake. The satirist's aim here isn't to trivialise concern about drugs but to point up the media's lack of attention to content. A response to the ill-conceived News of the World witch-hunt, in the wake of the Sarah Payne affair, the 2001 "paedophilia" special was the most supremely controversial of the series. It followed the usual formula--duping celebs such as Phil Collins into endorsing a campaign entitled "Nonce Sense", urging parents to send their children to football stadiums for the night for their own safety and mooting the possibility of "roboplegic" paedophiles--and prompted the sort of hysterical and predictable Pavlovian response from the media that Brass Eye lampoons so tellingly. On the DVD: Brass Eye on DVD includes brief outtakes, such as "David Jatt" interviewing celebrities about breeding hippos for domestic purposes, an hilarious exchange with Jeffrey Archer's PA ("He's a very wicked little man") as well as trailers for the paedophilia special.--David Stubbs
Meet Steven Toast (Matt Berry, The IT Crowd, House of Fools)--actor, ladies' man and aficionado of some of Soho's finest drinking clubs.
Sitcom following Steven Toast a successful actor who has made a recent career faux pas by electing to star in a new controversial West End stage play.
A recording from Glasgow's Stand Club of Lee's hugely acclaimed 2007/8 show that cements his reputation as one of the most masterful stand ups in the world.
This is Mark's true story of cake icing as a political weapon of demonstrations to Defend Surrealism and getting to like the police. Mark turns an 18 month battle over Parliament Square and the right to demonstrate into bizarrely brilliant stand up. This is how Mark fought the law... With the law's permission! It is a laugh out loud funny world inhabited by anarchists Goths artists and the Westminster Constabulary in which Mark becomes a Guinness World Record holder organises 2 500 protests in one day and changes the law in the process.
Hilarious sketches and stand up in Omid Djalili's long awaited BBC series. One of Britain's best loved comedians the multi award-winning British-Iranian Omid Djalili takes on the world - jumping from multi-culturalism to multi-tasking mums and from Godzilla impressions to the execution of Saddam Hussein. Wonderfully varied - one minute he's performing a hilarious belly dance the next he's an over zealous football referee - the series also features some great running sketches including Kebab Shop the Musical; the ingratiating wannabe actor; instructional videos from bouncer Steve 'the Dragon' Thompson and the adventures of a 1970s American-Iranian detective Donny Chicago.
Brothers Barry and Garry are landlords of the least-successful pub in the East End but help is on hand with their ever-scheming mate Dodgy Phil. One quick call to Renovation Reg Memorabilia Mick or Big Screen Dean and the punters will soon be flocking in. Originally tagged as 'Eastenders meets The Simpsons' World of Pub is one of the most inventive comedy series of recent years following a path from Radio 4 to TV (as with The League of Gentleman and Little Britain) and featuring an all-star line-up of British comedy talent. Welcome to the World of Pub!
Omid Djalili returns for a second series of stand-up sketches and skits.
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