ABOUT Modern Toss

Modern Toss, a partially-animated, distinctly adult British comedy complete with gross-out moments, profanity and inappropriate cartoon characters was created by former journalists Mick Bunnage and Jon Link based on their comic and website also dubbed Modern Toss.  This hilarious mutant television offspring that grew out of UK Channel 4's famed comedy lab anthology series will soon run rampant across the world of pop culture on IFC.  

Featuring a host of maladjusted characters, Modern Toss introduces crowd pleasing favorites like fearless master sign writer Mr. Tourette, socially-inept Alan who reacts to bland family gatherings with carefully-orchestrated destruction, two astronauts who delight in tormenting one another, celebrity-obsessed flies who swap dubious eye witness accounts in Fly Talk, a goose-stepping nose with legs and a hat known as Sneezeman with allergies to contemporary life, and the Gnat Burglar, a bionic mosquito capable of sucking a dinosaur dry!

Modern Toss is not a show for the easily offended, or for those who like their comedy safe, simple, and featuring Judi Dench.  This new cartoon sketch show is short on good taste and sensitivity, but brimming with originality and laughs.

This series features the voice talent of Simon Greenall, Paul Kaye, Doon Mackichan, Mackenzie Crook and David Schaal, amongst others.

The cult website and comic Modern Toss is the creation of Jon Link and Mick Bunnage--two writer/ cartoonists who have worked together on and off for 10 years on various magazines and animation projects. In 2003, the now-rare first two issues of the Modern Toss Comic were published as a top-selling book by Macmillan. Before the show's current incarnation, they created a 25 minute Modern Toss TV pilot in 2004 for Channel 4 (UK). The result was a shockingly hilarious and ambitious blend of animation, live action and classical music, featuring all the Toss favourite characters--including the stroppy but straight-talking sign-writer Mr. Tourette and the experimentally destructive Alan. It received a glowing full-page review from the legendarily tough TV critic at The London Evening Standard and a note of congratulations from the boss at Channel 4. They are both from Essex.

Beginning March 17 at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT, 30-minute episodes of this six-part series will air as part of IFC's Tuesday night AUTOMAT programming block.