Jon Holmes
Jon Holmes is a seven-time Sony and Double Bafta winning writer, comedian and polymorphic media alloy. He’s haunts BBC Radio 4 like a tiny ghost, writing and performing as one of The Now Show team, and his own series Listen Against is “glorious”, “triumphant”, “stunningly made” and “beautifully crafted and scalpel sharp” depending on which newspaper you read.
In music radio he presents his own weekend show on BBC 6 Music (Saturdays 4-7pm) and (with Miranda Hart) sits in to host the Radio 2 Breakfast Show when Chris Evans is off. He appears on 5Live’s Men’s Hour and also has his own show on the network Jon Holmes’s Mob Rule. He also holds a British Comedy Award for Best Radio Comedy.
On TV Jon has worked with Armando Iannucci, Stephen Fry, Harry Hill and Graham Norton. Jon also co-created Dead Ringers and co-writes the hugely popular Royal Television Society and Bafta Award winning Horrible Histories for BBC1. Other TV includes Mock The Week, Have I Got News For You, Top Gear and 2010/2011 Unwrapped.
He is a travel writer for The Sunday Times and his books Rock Star Babylon, The Now Show Book and The History of the World Through Twitter are now also available on a futuristic Kindle.
He was once asked to go on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. He told them to sod off.