Richard Ayoade's Wonderfully Dry Opening Speech for the Virgin Media BAFTA TV Awards 2021

Richard Ayoade delivers an expectedly wonderfully dry opening speech at the Virgin BAFTA TV Awards 2021.

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[GenericCoyote]

The perfect host for this event. Thriving on the awkward energyb

[wundurra]

Richard Ayoade is the only reason I watched (some of) the Baftas.

[cordialman]

*"I like things with no atmosphere"* ...Hear! Hear! My fellow introvert and awkward friend

[troygaspard]

Of course any new footage of Mr. Ayoade I will click on, no matter what the form.

[limerence]

Second year on a row I've watched the BAFTAS all the way through and for only one reason...

[anjou]

His Travel dvds leave me rolling on the floor in hysterics like a puppy.

[irish]

"We are here to celebrate people making stuff up whether it be in drama or documentary." Brilliant.

[joshuablissett]

I want to make a movie with Richard he’s hilarious

[limerence]

I like how people treat taste in comedy as they would fact.

[David-mgyj]

What need is there to live life, when we can watch it? How very Situationist, baby.

[politeparody]

Piers Morgan jealous there's not enough air in the universe to allow him be invited in the Bafta. He's too contagious

[anjou]

Cant wait for this witty, brain-bustingly intelligent take no prisoners non-sneering sneerer to become the next prime minister.

[Ohm]

That is not dry. It's witheringly acidic.

[MikeWalls]

This is like Mitchell and Webb's sketch with the gameshow in the spaceship travelling towards the sun for the gratification of some suicidal billionaire wanna be tv presenter who wants to use a game show to mentally torture the audience for his amusement until we all die, I hope this is satire...

[MacIntoshMann]

he should host the film awards too. he’d be a lot better than lumley, that’s for sure.

[ThatCoalSoul]

If you tried removing the anger from Romesh and left the machine on too long - so long in fact that it removed strong personality traits flat out - Richard is the result.

[omgwtfbbq_]

Idk it feels like he's trying too much to be Ricky Gervais

[gonnahavemesomefun]

1:37 WOAH who is the l̶a̶d̶y̶ person with the hairy pits? Don't get me wrong I am all for it -- not that it matters if I am or not <insert any number of wokeisms here> -- it just made me jump.

[davideunbekannt]

RA was only ever funny in the IT crowd everything else I have seen him in has been painful to watch.

[davidbond]

Far too dreary and the event host was just not funny this year!