Fullerton, Jamie (26 May 2009). "Yeah Yeah Yeahs premiere Richard Ayoade-directed video online". NME . Retrieved 6 March 2018. 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]

Chang, Justin (10 September 2013). "Toronto Film Review: 'The Double' ". Variety . Retrieved 6 March 2018. Rachel Smalter Hall (5 September 2013). "Listen to Kate Winslet, Richard Ayoade and Other Famous People Read Roald Dahl". bookriot.com . Retrieved 1 January 2015. Ayoade on Top, his third book published by Faber and Faber, is a tongue-in-cheek ode to the critically maligned romantic comedy View from the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow. [80] [81] The Financial Times included Ayoade on Top in its collection of the best books of 2019 and Ayoade was ranked 33rd of the 50 best comedians of the 21st century in a 2019 list published by The Guardian. [82] [83] One man and his machine … Guy Martin. Photograph: Ryan Mcnamara/Channel 4 Succession 9pm, Sky AtlanticAyoade's first book, Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey, was published by Faber and Faber in October 2014. It parodies Faber's Directors on Directors series, where critically celebrated filmmakers discuss their work, and sees Ayoade conduct several fictional interviews with himself where he discusses his work and enthusiasm for the world of cinema. [63] Ayoade voiced a villainous snowman in several episodes of the 2015 reboot of the animated series Danger Mouse. [64] In June 2016, he directed a short music video for the Radiohead song "Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief", as part of a series of video vignettes to promote their album A Moon Shaped Pool. [65] Sometimes a format as simple as two comedians going on a bike ride together makes for good television. Away from stage comedy, David O’Doherty earns his primetime slot with another obsession: cycling. Taking Richard Ayoade on a two-day trip along the Kent coast, they observe, reflect and talk utter nonsense. Bliss. Later in the series, Grayson Perry and Mel Giedroyc saddle up. Hollie Richardson The Outlaws 9pm, BBC One Fletcher, Alex (1 May 2013). "Richard Ayoade replaces Stephen Fry on Channel 4's 'Gadget Man' ". Digital Spy . Retrieved 8 March 2018. 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. Dobbs, Sarah (3 April 2014). "The cast of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace: 10 years on". Den of Geek. Dennis Publishing . Retrieved 26 January 2018.

For those who, like me, wondered if this was coming a little too early in the career of Richard Ayoade, rest assured – this is a spoof of those grandiloquent career-spanning interview books. It's a very competent spoof, too – one showing that he can put pen to paper and come up with something clever enough, enjoyable and witty and at times sprightly, and very well sustained. Unfortunate, then, that he has sustained mediocrity too far. That might sound like a mildly amusing conceit for a traditional autobiography, but Ayoade’s actual life is almost entirely absent, his work barely mentioned. The book is more of a surreal and hilarious exercise in self-aggravation. For example, one exchange runs like this: “I read somewhere that you regard your Jewish identity as being important to you.” “It’s very important. It’s foundational.” “And yet you’re not Jewish.” “No.” “And you don’t find that problematic?” “Not at all. I don’t think whether I’m Jewish or not is really relevant to my Jewish identity.” “Would you call yourself a practising Jew?” “I use to play guitar but I don’t really have time for it any more.” When that doesn’t work, he tries to turn a specific question about his life into a general one about film, peppering it with relatively obscure references to pre-1960s cinema, of which his knowledge is spectacular, to keep things on his terms.Bassett, Kate (20 June 1998). "The Footlights lose their shine". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 26 February 2016 . Retrieved 19 January 2018. Cochrane, Greg (20 May 2009). "Kasabian ready 'psychedelic' LP". Newsbeat. BBC News . Retrieved 6 March 2018. Evans, Bradford (26 February 2014). "Richard Ayoade Signs a Deal to Write Three Books About Film". Vulture . Retrieved 8 March 2022. The elephant in the room of any interview is, consume this product’ ... Richard Ayoade. Photograph: Antonio Olmos for the Guardian 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.

It’s after about 67 Gwenyth in Paris mental appearances that I come across Richard Ayoade and become a fan. I have absolutely no reason to think the two would ever cross paths. Yet lo and behold, around the 140th time I think of Gwenyth in Paris, the two worlds meet, and in long form no less. Ayoade has written an entire book on an average but lowkey charming VCD movie I watched one time but couldn’t quite forget. Of course he has.

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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). Goodness, where to start? This was quite the ordeal. I realise it's supposed to be a spoof and the endless footnotes another witty idiosyncrasy, but my God it wore thin. Then just when I was at my lowest ebb, there would be an Alan Partridge-esque gem that I couldn't help smiling at:

Welikala, Judith (21 August 2013). "Edinburgh Comedy Award winners: where are they now?". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 19 January 2018. In an episode of The Sacred podcast, Richard said he also gets his wife to read his projects before he signs up. Taylor, Frances (7 July 2017). "As host of The Crystal Maze, Richard Ayoade is actually even better than Richard O'Brien". Radio Times . Retrieved 8 October 2019. There was actually a lawsuit (which the vag-egg-wallah lost) because of the false claims made about these - proof that fools are indeed born continuously. 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.

I caught Richard Ayoade on The Graham Norton Show regaling the couch with a description of his new book and I knew I had to read it asap. a b c d Alexis Petridis (14 January 2011). "Richard Ayoade: Meet Mr Modest". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 January 2015.