...but comic admits he doesn't know when he'll have time to write it

Matt Berry has confirmed that he is planning a fourth series of Toast of London. 

However he admits he does not know when he’ll have time to write it, especially as he now has to spend more than three months in the US filming What We Do In The Shadows.

Berry has been talking about a new run of the Channel 4 comedy that he co-created with Arthur Mathews for the past  two years.

And in an interview in today’s Guardian to promote his new show, • Year Of The Rabbit, Berry said he wanted to return to the role of the pompous, frustrated Steven Toast ‘because he’s the anti-me’. 

‘I wrote him because I met so many actors who are utterly vicious about other actors – always frustrated, bitter and cynical,’ he said. ‘I’m not. I’m doing all the things I ever wanted. More than I ever imagined. I never dreamed of being a comedian. I never imagined I’d be a clown. There aren’t enough hours in the day. But otherwise I’m living the life I wanted.’

And he admitted that – to his surprise - he was still getting voiceover work. ‘I thought I’d satirised the job into oblivion as Toast,’ he admitted. ‘But that only made them want me more. Weird.’

Year Of The Rabbit begins on Channel 4 on June 10.

Published: 5 Jun 2019