British MST3K, who would you cast?

[tvsfrank]

I think this guy would make a 10/10 Crow.

Phil Fletcher

Who would you pick for a host / mad / crow / servo?

[BruceLeePullen]

Stephen Fry as the Mad Scientist.

[BruceLeePullen]

Ben Whishaw as the Test Subject.

[BruceLeePullen]

Roger Allam as TV’s Nigel.

[Lucas]

Phoebe Waller-Bridge as the Test Subject

Peter Serafinowicz as Tom Servo

Ed Gamble as Crow

Michelle Gomez as Mad 1

Mark Heap as Mad 2

[NatalieShark]

Kiell Smith-Bynoe as the test subject. Dude is very funny.

[Tebbs]

Josie Long, Bill Bailey, Nick Frost, all would be good test subjects.

[Dr_Phantom]

Richard Ayoade as pretty much anyone.

[Yorkshire_Paul]

Richard O’Brien would make a delicious Mad.

[JakeGittes]

Matt Berry as anything… it would be a very naughty show… and I’d love it.

In fact, just hire the entire Toast of London cast, in whatever roles, and let the good times roll.

[wyswysia]

First try:

• David Tennant as a Mad. Channel those Crowley vibes. But do it in your natural accent.
• Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Host. She’s already good at talking to the camera.
• Martha Howe-Douglas as Tom. Because Tom needs to be snooty. And why not gender-bend Tom’s voice this time?
• Laurence Rickard as Crow.

I could be happily persuaded in other directions. These are just top of my head, it’s 6 am here, not enough caffeine yet thoughts.

I’d also include a polite request to not cast Matt Lucas because I’m done with his “voices”, tyvm.

[FlyingSquid]

I think the team behind Horrible Histories, Yonderland and Ghosts would do a good job, especially since they have a lot of experience with puppetry.

[FlyingSquid]

Also, I wonder if Alterniversal has ever considered licensing the MST3K brand to other countries?

[duaneiac]

Rowan Atkinson as the Mad-in-chief, Lord Evelyn Waddingham-Forrester.

[Dr_Phantom]

If we’re going for voices and puppetry experience, we can dip into Red Dwarf and get Chris Barrie and Danny John-Jules. Might not work if we’re going for a younger demographic, though.

[FlyingSquid]

But Barrie and John-Jules don’t themselves have puppetry experience. A lot of the other team did double duty, especially in Horrible Histories. I don’t know what they call themselves.

[duaneiac]

Julie Andrews as GPC.

[Dr_Phantom]

I’m not sure if Barrie also did puppettering on Spitting Image, but John-Jules was the Fire Gang in Labyrinth. Not sure how much other experience they have, though.

[FlyingSquid]

He was one of the voices of the Fieries in Labyrinth, but did he actually do any puppetry?

[Dr_Phantom]

I’m pretty sure he operated the puppet, too, but because of how it was done it may have been a “we need a dancer for this” thing instead of puppetry experience.