Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey

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Richard Ayoade has been slammed for praising Graham Linehan’s upcoming book (Picture: SWNS / Getty)The thing is, what’s my mandate? I feel you need to earn the right to weigh in on complex issues, and that right is probably not granted to you by being moderately efficient at imparting words so that they’re amusing. On some level, I can’t get away from the undertone that exists, which is, ‘Out on Monday’. The danger is, you trivialise what you’re saying, because there’s a commercial element attached, you might have something to gain.”

During the rant about the female journalist, which aired on Dan Wootton’s show on Tuesday, the 45-year-old said in reference to Evans, who is a political correspondent at Joe: ‘Who would want to shag that?’’ Fans of Richard Ayoade have voiced their disappointment after the actor contributed to Graham Linehan’s new book.He’s also hosted shows such as the revival of The Crystal Maze, Have I Got News For You and Gadget Man. In a later statement confirming Laurence’s suspension on Wednesday, the broadcaster said it would be ‘apologising formally to Ava Evans today.’

This week, it was the turn of Richard Ayoade to face the Two Minutes Hate of the trans-activist mob.

The Lewis actor sparked an almighty race row in January 2020 when he weighed into the debate about Meghan Markle and systemic racism in the UK. I’m only a tad suspicious because these are unusual circumstances in which to conduct an interview. There should be plenty to talk about: Ayoade’s comedy career, including his Bafta-winning sitcom role as Moss, the socially-inept star of Graham Linehan’s The IT Crowd, as well as his two acclaimed films as a director, Submarine and The Double, which, alongside the recent output of Ben Wheatley and Edgar Wright, have made him a leading light of the new school of cultish British filmmaking. But Ayoade’s latest work – a book, Ayoade on Ayoade – is an interview itself, in which two fictional versions of the man antagonise one another. He’s even a prominent music video director, having directed videos for the likes of The Arctic Monkeys and Kasabian.

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Laurence said he begged for Richard’s support over the race row.Of course, in recent years, Linehan has also become a bête noire of the trans lobby. The memoir, Tough Crowd, is billed as a humorous reflection on his journey from being one of the UK’s most beloved television comedy writers to becoming a pariah for being forthright about his gender-critical beliefs. Laurence Fox is Richard’s brother-in-law (Credit: SplashNews.com) Who does BAFTA host Richard Ayoade play in The Mandalorian? If that’s his fear about our meeting, he doesn’t show it initially. In fact he’s quite forthcoming as we talk about cinema and comedy. He tells me lots about film I didn’t know: the ways in which Woody Allen makes nods to Ingmar Bergman; that the 1960 film Zazie Dans le Metro is useless for teaching yourself French, as Ayoade attempted as a teenager, because the titular character speaks in slang and purposeful mispronunciation. During his appearance on Question Time, Laurence clashed with an audience member and said it was ‘racist’ for him to be described as a ‘white privileged male’ and that he was ‘bored’ of people ‘throwing the race card’ around.