{"id":6816,"date":"2022-10-15T00:55:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T00:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6816"},"modified":"2022-12-18T11:43:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T11:43:44","slug":"media-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6816","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA: Toast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019ve been aware of Matt Berry since seeing him in Garth Marenghi\u2019s Dark Place<\/em>. Up until now I\u2019ve found his (always exactly the same) character – loud, brashly self-confident, etc. – for example, in The IT Crowd<\/em>, rather annoying. But somehow, here, with a show that\u2019s all about him, that same boorish self-love works much better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, I have to confess I found this, when I binged on the first three or four episodes, very funny and entertaining. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berry is also a musician, which is a mixed blessing in respect of this series. His theme music for the series – \u2018Take My Hand\u2019 – is terrific. But the song interludes embedded in the individual episodes are rather poor. Maybe that\u2019s intentional? But for me it doesn\u2019t quite work. And it makes the series, otherwise quite slick, a bit clunky. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Toast and his nemesis, Ray Purchase.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But all in all, Toast\u2019s ludicrous self-regard helps propel him through various very silly scenarios, in which we can also enjoy numerous other ridiculous \u2018luvvies\u2019, admirably. Not an out and out classic. But very funny and enjoyable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BONUS BALL<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This slightly Bond-themed episode may be my favourite of series one. Or maybe not? Like all the episodes, it made me laugh a lot. But it’s also pretty lame. Somehow it builds its own crappiness and lameness into the fabric of the show itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing that really<\/em> strikes me, whilst watching this – indeed, whenever I see Matt Berry perform – is what a truly dreadful<\/em> actor he is. Genuinely. He is always exactly the same. His vocal delivery is always the same, a kind of pompous declamatory tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He sounds like he’s doing an impression of a British male actor from the 1940s or ’50s, but he’s forgotten exactly who. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the chief threads that runs through the whole series – and indeed all Matt Berry character’s I’ve ever seen – is Toast’s lothario lifestyle. And as a sex-crazed ‘deviated prevert’ myself, I can’t help but warm to this aspect of his delusional self-love. M<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Toast enjoys Mrs Ray Purchase.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mind, he’s not delusional as portrayed here, frequently getting his oats (always dressed in his vest!), usually doggy style! And frequently with the wife of his arch rival, Ray Purchase, another dreadful moustachioed ham. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been aware of Matt Berry since seeing him in Garth Marenghi\u2019s Dark Place. Up until now I\u2019ve found his (always exactly the same) character – loud, brashly self-confident, etc. – for example, in The IT Crowd, rather annoying. But somehow, here, with a show that\u2019s all about him, that same boorish self-love works much … <\/p>\n

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