Richard Ayoade brings his book 'Afterthoughts' to life in a live talk at Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
Richard Ayoade is coming to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Sunday 29 November for a live talk based on his book Afterthoughts, or Some Pistachios Won't Open: Wisdom for the Unreflective, which came out in October 2025. The book is a collection of more than 500 short thoughts and unlikely pieces of wisdom, and the show draws from that material.
Most of us know Ayoade as Maurice Moss in The IT Crowd, but he's worked across just about every end of the industry. He's a BAFTA-winning actor, comedian, director and writer, born in Hammersmith in 1977 to a Norwegian mother and a Nigerian father. He read law at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he was president of Footlights and, with Matthew Holness, created the horror writer Garth Marenghi; their Edinburgh show Garth Marenghi's Netherhead won the Perrier Comedy Award in 2001.
Since then he's written and directed the films Submarine and The Double, presented Travel Man and The Crystal Maze, and voiced animation roles in The Boxtrolls, Early Man, Soul and The Bad Guys. He also popped up as the photographer in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, delivering the line 'Please, Mr Sellers, can I get a shot of you and your mum?'.
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The talk starts at 7:30pm and runs for an hour and 50 minutes, including a 20-minute interval. Tickets are between £34.50 and £62.00, and the venue is the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Catherine Street in Covent Garden, WC2B 5JF.
