Watch the introduction of Matt Berry as Douglas Reynholm below:. Show creator Linehan previously revealed plans for a fifth and final series of the sitcom, but later confirmed that a one-off special would instead end the show in Iif anyone knows then Graham will.
If that's what he's saying then that's the case. Berry also said that despite a music career and his status as the voice of Absolute Radio, he has "no interest" in regularly fronting a radio show. Morris was also involved in the comedy series Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle in which he served as script editor, working with actor Kevin Eldon and former colleagues Stewart Lee and Armando Iannucci. Morris completed his debut feature film, Four Lions, in late and was shown in January at the Sundance Film Festival.
The jihad satire film was shortlisted for the World Cinema Narrative prize and was also picked up by movie channel Film Four. Morris told The Sunday Times that the film, based on a group of Islamist terrorists in the North of England, will do for Islamic terrorism what Dad's Army did for the Nazi Party by showing them as 'scary but ridiculous'. Morris has also written and performs music for various TV shows, most noticeably his own shows Jam and its remixed version Jaaaaam.
In , he created the track "Bad Sex", which was released as a B-side on the Tobin single "Slowly". The British band Stereolab's song from their album Sound-Dust featured lines from various Chris Morris sketches as lyrics.
Morris has also been sampled by The Orb. Morris is famous for his private personal life and his reluctance to do interviews. Morris lives in Brixton, England, with his partner and literary agent, Jo Unwin, with his two sons, both born in Lambeth, London: Charles Peter born and Frederick Rudolf born Morris can also be heard as himself on the podcast for CERN.
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Edit source History Talk 0. No, he took the ring to Mordor! Much of the buzz around the first series was due to the fact that 'comedy God' Chris Morris was playing the role of Denholm, the company boss. However, Morris decided to leave the project after the first series although he did appear in Episode 2. Douglas is played by Matt Berry , who previously starred with Ayoade in Darkplace.
There is technically a fourth member of the IT team in the basement, although he is rarely seen. Richmond, a depressed goth, played by The Mighty Boosh star Noel Fielding , hides away in a side room. The character hasn't been seen recently but writer Graham Linehan says he hopes Richmond will appear again one day. In addition to the above cast, the show features a wealth of cameos from the British comedy scene. Around , when The IT Crowd was launched, there was much talk in the industry about the death of the British sitcom.
At the time it was therefore quite a talking point that Graham Linehan had deliberately opted to go back to the traditional studio audience format for this sitcom. Looking back it was a plan that clearly worked as not only is The IT Crowd doing well for Channel 4 but, since then, sitcoms like Not Going Out have being picking up good ratings too.
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