Career: Ayoade's breakthrough came when he and Matthew Holness created fictional horror author Garth Merenghi; a stage show featuring the character won the Perrier Award, which was followed by the Channel 4 series Garth Merenghi's Darkplace. Ayoade went on to appear in The Mighty Boosh, Nathan Barley, Bunny and the Bull, and The IT Crowd. He made his big-screen directorial debut with the acclaimed Submarine (which he also wrote, adapting it from the novel by Joe Dunthorne), and has since directed The Double as well as numerous music videos for acts such as the Arctic Monkeys, Super Furry Animals, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Kasabian. He's was a team captain on Channel 4 panel show Was It Something I Said? and took over as host of Gadget Man from Stephen Fry.

Career: The duo went down a storm at the Edinburgh Festival in 1979 and became one of the main attractions at The Comedy Store and The Comic Strip clubs in London. Edmondson's TV debut came in November 1982 when The Comic Strip Presents… was shown on Channel 4's opening night. Days later, The Young Ones made him a famous face on BBC Two. Since then, he's starred in Saturday Live, Filthy, Rich and Catflap, Bottom, Guest House Paradiso (1999) and Jonathan Creek. He has directed television shows and pop videos, appeared in numerous stage plays, and written the novel The Gobbler. Edmondson showed his talent for serious acting when he spent three years in Holby City. He teamed up with Mayall once again in the winning performance on BBC One's Let's Dance for Comic Relief in 2011. Edmondson has appeared as a presenter on The Dales, Ade in Britain, That's Britain and Ade at Sea. He won Celebrity MasterChef in 2013. In 2016, he took part in The Great Sport Relief Bake Off and starred in an adaptation of Bits Of Me Are Falling Apart at the Soho Theatre in London.