Man to Man with Dean Learner
| Man to Man with Dean Learner | |
|---|---|
Title card from Man to Man with Dean Learner
|
|
| Created by |
Richard Ayoade Matthew Holness |
| Starring | Richard Ayoade Matthew Holness |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Original release | 20 October – 24 November 2006 |
| Website | |
Man to Man with Dean Learner is a British comedy chat show that was first broadcast on Channel 4 on 20 October 2006 and released on DVD on 3 September 2007. It features comedians Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness.
Originally called Deano's After Dark, the show features Dean Learner (Ayoade) chatting to a range of guests (all played by Ayoade's co-writer, Matthew Holness) including Merriman Weir and Garth Marenghi.
Holness and Ayoade spent time testing out material in front of a live audience in December 2005; the show involved Ayoade fixed in the role of smut-peddling presenter Dean Learner and Holness playing various characters. These included Glynn Nimron, a sci-fi — or "S.F.", as he preferred it — actor with a new biography detailing his extremely close relationship with a director; Garth Marenghi, returning to promote his new Darkplace-esque movie War of the Wasps; folk musician Merriman Weir who has a penchant for rather dark songs (Holness is an adept guitarist); and another actor, Randolph Caer, who became a social pariah after starring in one of Dean's grindhouse movies (the Marenghi-penned slasher film Bitch Killer).
Bafta Nominated composer Andrew Hewitt, who scored Darkplace, also scored sections of Man to Man.
An amount of the humour stems from Learner's dubious business activities and misogynistic tendencies — with Finnish model Satu Suominen (as his 'beautiful assistant-cum-bartender') being the target of many of his jibes, and most of the guests having some sort of business connection to Learner which is sometimes declared upfront and sometimes revealed in the course of the episode.
Marenghi discusses his humorous side and how it caused him to lose an ear, his latest movie War Of The Wasps which turns out to be an allegory for a future war with the Dutch, and his new interest in painting having already done one exhibition and currently working on another. Dean Learner goes into his first of several tirades. This initial one is about philosophy and having to queue for the restroom.
...
Wikipedia