I quite like Richard Ayoade. I’ve never been much of a fan of The IT Crowd, and that has nothing to do with ol’ angry twitter man ‘Glinner’, I just don’t find it especially funny. But Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place, that shit had me howling, and the character the comedian portrays, Dean Lerner, is a highlight. Whatsmore, if Ayoade is on a panel show, I know it’ll probably be pretty entertaining. I find his brand of socially awkward, half pretentious, half self-depricating humour works for me. And he seems to show a genuine love of film, something that I can get behind fully. I’ve never seen Submarine — it looks like a Wes Anderson wannabe, and I’ve grown out of Wes Anderson, let alone his imitators — but I did quite like The Double, even if I had forgot it existed until a couple of hours ago while researching for this piece. But is Richard Ayoade anti-trans? Well… I dunno. But at the point of writing, he’s more anti-trans than not.
Is Richard Ayoade a TERF?
I quite like Richard Ayoade. I’ve never been much of a fan of The IT Crowd, and that has nothing to do with ol’ angry…