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THE SOUND OF NO
HANDS CLAPPING

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  • Now Available in Paperback!

  • [ HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS & ALIENATE PEOPLE ]

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    125,000 COPIES*

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    [ JOURNALISM ]
    [ RADIO INTERVIEWS ]
    • A disco on Today about live performance snafus
    • Click here to listen to a podcast interview Toby did in New York recently with CultureCatch
    • Click here to listen to a conversation between Toby and ex-New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell
    • Should David Cameron have taken paternity leave? To listen to Toby discussing this on Radio 4, click here
    • To listen to Toby discussing 'A Very Social Secretary' on the Today Programme, click here
    • Listen to Toby talking about the Spectator play on Start the Week
    • Listen to Toby tying himself in knots on Woman's Hour trying to justify the fact that he doesn't do much around the house
    • Listen to Toby being interviewed on the Today Programme about Anna Wintour
    • A discussion of the meaning of failure on NPR
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  • In 2004, Toby spent three months in Los Angeles researching a novel. Click here to read a diary he did for Slate about his first week in Hollywood.

  • Toby recently appeared in a BBC reality show with Richard Herring, Emma Kennedy and Kit Hesketh Harvey, amongst others, called the Other Boat Race. In essence, two teams of Oxford and Cambridge graduates were taught to row by a group of Olympic gold medallists and then competed against each other on the Boat Race course. You can link here to Richard's account of the experience, Emma's account and Kit's account. Alternatively, read the series of columns Toby wrote about it for the Guardian: part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six.

  • In 2003, Toby became a father for the first time. Below are a series of columns he wrote about the experience for the Evening Standard.

  • "The Birth"
  • Evening Standard - 6th August 2003
  • Evening Standard - 13th August 2003
  • Evening Standard - 20th August 2003
  • Evening Standard - 27th August 2003
  • Evening Standard - 3rd September 2003
  • Evening Standard - 10th September 2003
  • Evening Standard - 17th September 2003
  • Evening Standard - 24th September 2003
  • Evening Standard - 1st October 2003
  • Evening Standard - 8th October 2003
  • Evening Standard - 15th October 2003
  • Evening Standard - 22nd October 2003
  • Evening Standard - 29th October 2003

  • Mail on Sunday Column

  • Will Chris rock Hollywood's world?
  • How long before Z-list 'stars' pay to get on TV?
  • It's time for Sly Stallone to leave us well alone
  • I'm just not man enough for poker with the 'stars'
  • Just what do women get out of open marriages?
  • The word on the street is people prefer posh
  • Good guys finish first, but losers end up richer
  • Never mind the Brits...here's the Sex Pistols
  • Reality is the cult of the decade--but will it last?
  • This dark Cook biopic is certainly no Dud
  • Comedian should be taken seriously for once
  • Should the public have to vote to save the arts?
  • To play gay in Hollywood it pays to be straight...
  • I'm a Celebrity is sordid TV, but I'll still watch it
  • Why Anne's plastic really isn't so fantastic
  • Couples on Wife Swap are divorced from reality
  • Real men eat quiche and proudly wear pink
  • Why Oscar night could be a four-letter fright
  • Click here to read Toby's Night & Day piece about how he ended up on the West End stage
  • Why Blackpool rocks but Brighton doesn't...
  • It's a Bit Sad Being a Dad
  • Working Title's Annus Mirabilis
  • Tracey Pulls It Off
  • Tom Hanks's Career is Terminal
  • Julie's Sugar Plum
  • NY-LON Lacks Authentic Fibre
  • The Fucking Fulfords
  • Bloom to be the Next Bond
  • The Eight Golden Rules Sven Needs to Know
  • Will the Government Strip the BBC of its Charter?
  • Forget the Stepford Wives--Where are the Stepford Husbands?
  • Trying Not to Get Deported
  • Where's the Right-Wing Michael Moore?
  • What if No One Comes to my Party?
  • Graydon Carter's Waterloo
  • Jack Nicholson's Ugly Courtside Behaviour
  • My Novel is Overtaken By Events
  • Graydon Carter's Feeble West Coast Career
  • The Latest Pop Idol Knock Off
  • The Worst Earthquake I've Ever Seen--On Television
  • Poker, the Hot New Celebrity Trend
  • Porn Industry in Crisis
  • Tra-La-La-La-La America
  • Who's the Next Bond?
  • Lucian Freud's Ugly Streak
  • Ian McShane Goes to Hollywood

  • Click here for the latest info on the film adaptation of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People.
  • NEWToby did nothing to help his kidnapped friend
  • NEWToby reviews Sidney Offit's new Memoir in the WSJ
  • NEWA Complete History of My Sexual Failures is v funny
  • NEWToby wonders what new car to buy
  • NEWBeing a dad is like working at Wernham-Hogg
  • NEWA disco on Today about live performance snafus


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