Career: Novak provided voiceovers for video games including Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, but it was the Bafta award-winning Fonejacker that he co-created with Ed Tracy which would go on to earn him big-time success. A while later, spin-off Facejacker followed, after Novak made appearances in Holby City, Spooks and the George Clooney movie Syriana. He impressed the critics in Chris Morris's comedy Four Lions, a project which also attracted Bafta gold.

Career: Berry's first taste of TV was in the late 1990s on video game magazine show Game Over on satellite computer and technology channel .tv. His first prominent TV role was playing Todd Rivers/Dr Lucien Sanchez in the Channel 4 comedy series Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and its spin-off Man to Man with Dean Learner. His other TV credits include The Mighty Boosch, Saxondale, The Peter Serafinowicz Show and The Sarah Silverman Program. He is best known for playing Douglas Reynholm in The IT Crowd. More recently, Berry has starred in Five Daughters, Toast of London and House of Fools. He is also an accomplished musician and has released several albums.

Career: After becoming a cult favourite with Radio 4's On the Hour, Coogan made his TV breakthrough in 1993 with roles on Saturday Zoo and The Day Today. The former introduced his foul-mouthed Mancunian layabout Paul Calf, and the latter brought his most famous radio creation, Alan Partridge, to the small screen. He appeared in horror spoof Dr Terrible's House of Horrible and also made a handful of hit-and-miss films, including Terry Jones's version of Wind in the Willows, The Parole Officer and 24 Hour Party People. He's enjoyed success in America with such films as Around the World in 80 Days, A Night at the Museum and Tropic Thunder. In 2010 he appeared with Rob Brydon in contemplative BBC sitcom The Trip, and more recently in its sequel, The Trip to Italy. He also co-wrote and starred in Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa and Philomena.