Here’s who voices Gordy in Netflix’s Disenchantment season 3, and how the actor connects to The IT Crowd. Disenchantment season 3 introduces several new characters to Matt Groening’s fantasy series, including fiendly worker Gordy voiced, whom Bean (Abbi Jacobson) meets in Steamland.
Bean runs into Gordy in Gunderson Steamworks as she searches for the Arch Druidess (Tress Macneille). He is welcoming and helpful, even aiding Bean in her quest. However, things take a turn when he reveals himself to be Alva Gunderson, head of Gunderson Steamworks, and that he used the Arch Druidess to lure Bean to Steamland. Alva wants to forge a relationship between Steamland and Dreamland in order to harness the magic he is convinced Dreamland possesses, but Bean is uninterested and flees.
Gordy is voiced by Richard Ayoade in Disenchantment season 3. While Gordy and Alva are not present in many episodes of the third season, Ayoade delivers a fun vocal performance as a potential antagonist for Bean. Adding to his appearance in the series is that fact that Ayoade is reuniting with two of his co-stars from The IT Crowd: Noel Fielding and Matt Berry. Fielding voices Stan the executioner, and Berry voices Prince Merkimer, the pig from the kingdom of Brentwood. Fans of Disenchantment and British comedy shows alike will surely enjoy how these three actors’ performances create a crossover between the two.
Ayoade, Fielding, and Berry are all well known for their work on The IT Crowd, which follows a group of misfit IT workers at Reynholm Industries. Ayoade plays Maurice Moss, a lovable nerd and hard worker, as well as one of the show’s leads. Fielding and Berry appear throughout – Fielding as goth employee Richmond Avenal and Berry as Douglas Reynholm, the lecherous head of Reynholm Industries from season 2 onward.
The three actors have worked together outside of The IT Crowd and Disenchantment as well. All of them appear in The Mighty Boosh, a surreal comedy headed by Fielding and his collaborator Julian Barratt. Ayoade and Berry both star in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, a show within a show about people involved in an unreleased 1980s horror series record a commentary track. The show had a short run, but it has since garnered a cult following.
Aside from their work on Disenchantment, all three comedians are currently involved in other film and TV work. Berry stars in FX’s What We Do In The Shadows, and Fielding is one of the hosts of the Great British Baking Show. Aoyade recently lent his voice to two massive projects, appearing in Soul as Counselor Jerry and in The Mandalorian as Zero the droid.
