And there are regular trips to the voice-over studio where he is ever more openly mocked by engineer Danny Bear (Tim Downie) and producer Clem Fandango (Shazad Latif). What remains constant is the horrible play in which he stars nightly - its title so obscene that it is masked with noise when anyone says it - and which opens him up to abuse when he is recognized from it in public.
TOAST OF LONDON STREAMING SERIAL
There is a mildly serial element, but its arcs are mostly short, with Toast sent on different jobs and involved with different women in each episode. It is an impolite sort of show, profane, sexually farcical, mock-heroic, sometimes violent. (All three extant seasons are also streaming on Netflix.) series, a Victorian detective comedy called “Year of the Rabbit” that will also come to IFC next year - finds the time.
in 2013 the second and third seasons will come to IFC in 2020, and a fourth is possible when Berry - whose current U.K. “The thing is, Toast,” she replies, “you don’t have any horizons”). (“Maybe I should broaden my horizons a little,” he suggests to unreliable agent Jane Plough, played by Doon Mackichan. And every year around this time, I post a link to “AD/BC,” a pitch-perfect pastiche 1970s-style rock opera written by Berry and Ayoade that tells the story of the Nativity from the point of view of the innkeeper.Ĭreated by Berry and Arthur Mathews (“Father Ted”), “Toast of London” stars Berry as Steven Toast, a British actor who is not so much struggling - he works - as stuck.
TOAST OF LONDON STREAMING SERIES
Where are you, American viewer, likely to have met the stentorian English comic actor Matt Berry, whose “Toast of London” comes to stateside cable Wednesday on IFC?Ĭurrently, Berry plays an English vampire on Staten Island in the FX vampire mockumentary series “What We Do in the Shadows,” developed by Jemaine Clement from his film of the same name, and is the voice of Prince Merkimer, man and pig, in Matt Groening’s Netflix animated fantasy “Disenchantment.” Longer ago, there was “The IT Crowd,” with Chris O’Dowd and Richard Ayoade the ’80s horror pastiche “Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace” and a few episodes of “The Mighty Boosh,” all of which have managed airings this side of the Atlantic.
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