History Series / ToastOfLondon

* PrecisionFStrike: Jane calls Toast, in no uncertain terms, exactly [[CountryMatters what he is]], which gets bleeped but sends an explosive-sounding shockwave and leaves him appalled. Later, she (equally accurately) refers to him as an "angry and unreasonable piece of shit", echoing the sentiments of ''The Stage''.

* WhoShotJFK: "Anger Man" begins with Toast, at a professional low, preparing to record an audiobook of a very strongly worded conspiracy tome, ''JFK and The Bastards Who Killed Him'', which states that anyone who believes the lone-gunman "bullshit" is "an asshole". Though Toast stays professional even if his contempt for the material is obvious, he can't make it a sentence in before [[Creator/LarryDavid the author]] has already jumped down his throat three separate times.

* VictorianLondon: In ''High Winds Actor'', Toast has to venture into the East End. Despite being set in 2014, it's exactly as it was in the days of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, complete with swirling fog and cockney prostitutes. Naturally, one of them is Mrs. Purchase, and as usual she is smoking. Although, appropriately, she is smoking a clay pipe rather than her ever-present cigarettes.

A BritCom written by [[Series/FatherTed Arthur Matthews]] and Creator/MattBerry in which the latter plays Steven Toast, a LargeHam middle aged actor who spends more time dealing with his bizarre life and problems off stage than performing on it. Toast constantly struggles to hold down a job due to his self-centeredness and obliviousness, which lead to frequent gaffes and mishaps that upset those around him. He sustains himself by starring in a universally-reviled play and doing humiliating dubbing work, but spends most of his time arguing with his agent Jane Plough (pronounced "pluff"), chatting with his eccentric, permanently dressing gowned flatmate fellow actor Ed Howzer-Black, and facing off against his arch enemy and rival actor Ray Purchase. He also hangs out at [[SmokyGentlemensClub The Colonial Club]] and wrestles with his complicated love life, which involves dealing with his ex-wife, sleeping with Mrs. Purchase, and frequently a GirlOfTheWeek.

It is broadcast by Creator/Channel4.

A SequelSeries, ''Toast Of Tinseltown'', started airing in 2022, now being aired by Creator/TheBBC (via their BBC2 channel).

A [[https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2021/toast-of-tinseltown sequel series has been announced]], under the working title ''Toast of Tinseltown'' for [[ChannelHop BBC One]], in which Toast tries to make it in Hollywood.

* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Toast's agent Jane Plough. Her surname is pronounced to rhyme with "Rough" and not like the agricultural equipment.

A BritCom written by [[Series/FatherTed Arthur Matthews]] and Creator/MattBerry in which the latter plays Steven Toast, a LargeHam middle aged actor who spends more time dealing with his bizarre life and problems off stage than performing on it. Toast constantly struggles to hold down a job due to his self-centeredness and obliviousness, which lead to frequent gaffes and mishaps that upset those around him. He sustains himself by starring in a universally-reviled play and doing humiliating dubbing work, but spends most of his time arguing with his agent Jane Plough ([[ItsPronouncedTropay pronounced "pluff"]]), chatting with his eccentric, permanently dressing gowned flatmate fellow actor Ed Howzer-Black, and facing off against his arch enemy and rival actor Ray Purchase. He also hangs out at [[SmokyGentlemensClub The Colonial Club]] and wrestles with his complicated love life, which involves dealing with his ex-wife, sleeping with Mrs. Purchase, and frequently a GirlOfTheWeek.

* ComicBookTime: Toast has been working as an actor since at least the late 1960's, yet is old enough for his dad to look exactly like him in the 70's, and in 2014 is still only described as "middle-aged". This actually fits pretty well into [[RetroUniverse the show's setting]], which can go anywhere from the modern day to the Heath ministry to Victorian times for the sake of a joke, and where Francis Bacon may or may not be dead.

** Ed is a very dignified, professional, and posh fellow but he has a number of weird fetishes that he enjoys in a sly and discreet manner, like old ladies posing in the nude or a woman with the face of Creator/BruceForsyth.

* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: This tends to happen with Toast's GirlOfTheWeek, who are often totally perfect... except for one issue, which starts off as extremely minor before reaching levels of absurdity by the end of the episode.

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: While Toast's girlfriend on "Man of Sex", being a "Doctor of Drumming" clearly isn't ''that'' kind of Doctor and probably shouldn't have responded to the question "Is there a doctor in the house?" she is able to restart his heart with [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer drumming]].

* OneSteveLimit: Lampshaded. Clem Fandango briefly goes by the name "Clem H. Fandango" to avoid confusion with a *different* Clem Fandango. Toast is unimpressed.

* PizzaBoySpecialDelivery: In "Global Warming" Ed stars in a porno as a cable repairman who comes to repair a saucy lady's "equiptment".

** Not surprising, as Toast claims never to watch television.

* RescueRomance: Toast spends most of an episode chasing after a comely female admiral, who won't put up with his nonsense. After he accidentally ends up stopping a crazed sailor from launching nuclear bombs from a submarine and helping rescue her from a kidnapper, she expresses interest him at the end.

** And he clearly had a go at her vocal chords as well, because she even sounds like Brucie.

* ChekhovsNews: Toast talks to Ed about fracking. [[spoiler: He's saved from certain death buried alive by it later.]]

* CatchPhrase: Many.

It is broadcast by {{Creator/Channel4}}.

* VictorianLondon: In ''High Winds Actor'', Toast has to venture into the East End. Despite being set in 2014, it's exactly as it was in the days of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, complete with swirling fog and cockney prostitutes. Naturally, one of them is Mrs. Purchase, and as usual she is smoking. Although, appropriately, she is smoking a clay pipe rather than her ever-present cigarettes.

A BritCom written by [[Series/FatherTed Arthur Matthews]] and Creator/MattBerry in which the latter plays Steven Toast, a LargeHam middle aged actor who spends more time dealing with his bizarre life and problems off stage than performing on it. Toast constantly struggles to hold down a job due to his self-centeredness and obliviousness, which lead to frequent gaffes and mishaps that upset those around him. He sustains himself by starring in a universally-reviled play and doing humiliating dubbing work, but spends most of his time arguing with his agent Jane Plough ([[ItsPronouncedTropay pronounced "pluff"]]), chatting with his eccentric, permanently dressing gowned flatmate, and facing off against his arch enemy and rival actor Ray Purchase. He also hangs out at [[SmokyGentlemensClub The Colonial Club]] and wrestles with his complicated love life, which involves dealing with his ex-wife, sleeping with Mrs. Purchase, and frequently a GirlOfTheWeek.

* {{Hipster}}: Clem Fandango and Danny Bear are pretty obnoxious examples. Toast describes them as wearing "clowns' outfits".

* {{Cuckold}}: Ray Purchase. Mrs. Purchase is always having sex with other men, especially Toast. In ''Match Fit'' she even has sex with Toast whilst Ray is asleep in the bed next to them. [[spoiler: And at the end, because Ray loses a bet, he is forced to watch Toast have sex with Mrs. Purchase. Whilst strapped into [[Film/AClockworkOrange a Clockwork Orange]]-style chair.]]
** Toast himself, whose wife Ellen had sex during the speeches at their wedding. With Clem Fandango.

A BritCom written by [[Series/FatherTed Arthur Matthews]] and Creator/MattBerry in which the latter plays Steven Toast, a LargeHam middle aged actor who spends more time dealing with his bizarre life and problems off stage than performing on it. Toast constantly struggles to hold down a job due to his self-centeredness and obliviousness, which lead to frequent gaffes and mishaps that upset those around him. He sustains himself by starring in a universally-reviled play and doing humiliating dubbing work, but spends most of his time arguing with his agent Janet Plough ([[ItsPronouncedTropay pronounced "pluff"]]), chatting with his eccentric, permanently dressing gowned flatmate, and facing off against his arch enemy and rival actor Ray Purchase. He also hangs out at [[SmokyGentlemensClub The Colonial Club]] and wrestles with his complicated love life, which involves dealing with his ex-wife, sleeping with Mrs. Purchase, and frequently a GirlOfTheWeek.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Janet Plough is very good agent and generally a serious, no-nonsense person. Except for the times when her LSD addiction, love of male strippers, and occasional bouts of paranoia kick in.

** Pretty much everyone in the show has a surname that's a slightly silly real word (Steven Toast, Ray Purchase, Janet Plough, Clem Fandango, etc etc.).

** On episode has Toast dating a delightful woman who he has great chemistry with, but she turns out to be a major hoarder. When he goes to her flat for a date, he has to climb over a mountain of furniture and garbage.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Toast looks to be in his early forties (Creator/MattBerry himself is 40 as of 2014), and yet flashbacks of Toast's previous acting jobs include an AwfulBritishSexComedy in 1969, an appearance in a children's programme in 1974 (thanks to a FreezeFrameBonus of the VT clock during the clip), and an episode of Series/DoctorWho which, judging by Creator/TomBaker's costume would have been made in 1974 or 1975. Who knows how old he actually is?!
** Also Jane Plough, who in ''High Winds Actor'' celebrates 40 years as an agent, even though Doon Mackichan who plays her is only 51. Did Jane become an agent at the age of eleven?

* *[[http://youtu.be/Je_pJ_-5HIM Listen]] to Toast pronounce "[[Music/BonJovi BonjovIIIII]]" or "[[Music/LadyGaga Madame GuGAAA]]".

* CelebrityResemblance: Kikini Bamalam, daughter of the Nigerian ambassador, was the victim of an insane plastic surgeon who turned her into a dead ringer for Creator/BruceForsyth. Except her left hand.

a [[https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2021/toast-of-tinseltown sequel series]] has been announced, under the working title ''Toast of Tinseltown'' for [[ChannelHop BBC One]], in which Toast tries to make it in Hollywood.

a [[https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2021/toast-of-tinseltown sequel series]] has been announced, under the work title ''Toast of Tinseltown'' for [[ChannelHop BBC One]], in which Toast tries to make it in Hollywood.