Education
Pembroke College.
cartoonist screenwriter writer
Pembroke College.
Riley has written several best-selling cartoon books, The Book of Bunny Suicides (2003), Return of the Bunny Suicides, The Bumper Book of Bunny Suicides, Dawn of the Bunny Suicides, Great Lies To Tell Small Kids (2005), Loads More Lies to Tell Small Kids (2006), and Selfish Pigs, which have produced calendar, greetings card, Bunnycides iPhone app and poster spin-offs. From 2002 until February 2010 he drew a weekly comic strip called Roasted in The Observer Magazine, a collection of which was released in book form in October 2007. Doctorate.I.Y. Dentistry was released in October 2008 in hardback.
The Radio Four panel game they wrote with Jon Holmes and Tony Roche, The 99p Challenge, ran for five series from 2000.
They wrote for the Miramax animated feature Gnomeo and Juliet. Riley has co-written two television adaptations of David Walliams books: Gangsta Granny and The Boy In The Dress.
Riley was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He is namechecked in the Father Ted Christmas Special as "Father Andy Riley".