Richard Ayoade, Moss in The IT Crowd, brings Afterthoughts, an evening built on his latest book, to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
Richard Ayoade, the comedian known as Moss in The IT Crowd, brings his evening Afterthoughts to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in Covent Garden on Sunday 29 November 2026.
Ayoade was born in Hammersmith in 1977 to a Norwegian mother and a Nigerian father, and grew up near Ipswich. He read law at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, where he was president of Footlights.
With Matthew Holness he created the horror writer Garth Marenghi and his publisher Dean Learner. Their Edinburgh show Garth Marenghi’s Netherhead won the Perrier Comedy Award in 2001.
He played Maurice Moss in the Channel 4 sitcom from 2006 to 2013, and the role won him a BAFTA in 2014. He then wrote and directed the films Submarine and The Double, and presented Travel Man and The Crystal Maze.
Afterthoughts draws on his latest book, Afterthoughts, or Some Pistachios Won’t Open: Wisdom for the Unreflective. On stage he works through more than 500 of what he calls his colossal notions.