latest news

June 2009


The Now Show won a Sony award for Best Comedy at this year's Sony Radio Academy Awards.

Jon is writing and warming up his live one-man show Rock Star Babylon (based on his book) for the 2009 Edinburgh Festival. See right. Plus warm up dates here

October 2009 sees the publication of THE NOW SHOW BOOK OF WORD RECORDS which Jon is co-writing at the moment with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. Some info available here.

On TV Jon is writing the as yet untitled new Jon Culshaw show for BBC1. An eight part run begins in September with filming beginning in July.

Also on TV, Horrible Histories which jon helped adapt from the bestselling books is on BBC1 at 4.35 each thursday. Jon's just started work on series 2.

Jon continues to write his Sunday Times column. Latest here.


On the radio Jon's BBC 6 Music show continues on saturday afernoons 2-4pm. Listen here on the iPlayer. here on the BBC iPlayer. Join in multicast simultweet feature Twittersweet Symphony. Details here. Follow Jon on Twitter over to the right.


April 2009
Jon's latest Sunday Times column is here. The line about the button that operates the National Lottery machine on TV being hooked up to to a trapdoor through which Scott Mills is hung has mysteriously been omitted by the editor. Oh.

This year Jon will be doing his Rock Star Babylon show at the Edinburgh Festival. There's some warm up theatre live dates coming up around the country where he'll be reading from his book and saying things in the gaps. Featuring Stephen Fry as 'the voice of the book'. Dates so far are here.

Jon is also on the bill at Comedy Gold in London on Wednesday April 15th doing a short 20 minute set. Tickets etc here.

And in nominated-for-aSony -Radio-Award-news, The Now Show has been nominated for a Sony Radio Award.

A new TV series Horrible Histories starts on BBC 1 on Wednesday 15th April, co-adapted and co-written by Jon from the marvellous best selling children's books.

Jon is co-writing a new BBC1 show for Jon Culshaw. Filimg takes place across the summer and it should be on TV in the autumn. We think. We also don't really have a title yet.


A Jon-devised brand new Radio 2 show I'm Spartacus is broadcast on April 9th at 10.30pm on Radio 2. It's a film panel game that's none too sensible. You can listen again here. Although only for a week. It stars Adam Buxton, Jon, Will Smith, Andrew Collins and Emma Kennedy.


Jon's BBC 6Music show continues to entertain its loyal audience of upwards of nine people on Saturday afternoons 2-4pm. Details here. And you can listen again here on the BBC iPlayer. Join in multicast simultweet feature Twittersweet Symphony. Details here. Follow Jon on Twitter over to the right.


The Now Show is back on Radio 4 for an 8 week run. There are even more jokes about Jon being short. Jon isn't really short. He's 9 feet high. You can listen here or download the podcast here


Jon's own Radio 4 show Listen Against has just come to the end of its second series. Various webmongs have made it available to listen to online. A google search should sort you out. BBC website is here. It's "the mischevious offspring of Radio 4's Feedback & The Day Today" according to The Guardian.


















 

 

 

Hello and thank you for chancing upon this website. (It's still being built by the way. In test mode. Links may not work fully.). How kind. I bid you welcome to the new website of Jonathan Richard Holmes, writer, comedian, broadcaster, occasional producer and all-round polymorphic media alloy.

If you were googling for the 1970s moustache-based pornographic gentleman John Holmes then you have made a terrible, terrible mistake. What you were looking for, dear internet traveller, is here.

 

Jon is now on twitter which makes him emminently followable.

Stalkers welcome. No knives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WARM UP & EXTRA DATES 2009

April 30th Barnsley Civic Theatre sold out

June 12th Bath Rondo Theatre tickets

July 3rd Chipping Norton Theatre tickets

July 10th Manchester Wordfest Festival tickets

August 7th Big Chill Festival tickets

Aug 17-30 Edinburgh Festival, Gilded Balloon tickets

 

 

 

available now

Rock Star Babylon a collection of rumours, lies and filth from rock's rocky road and "the most legalled book in Penguin's history" is now available in paperback from bookshops and Amazon and the like. Status Quo and the Kangaroo in hardback proving a little more elusive I'm told. The American version (right) is, like duur, available if you live in America. It's also out in Australia, Russia and this year, India. Quite what they'll make of the story of Marc Almond and the stomach pump is anyone's guess.

With the 'putting up' of this new site on the internet there may well be a blog of some sort at some point. It will doubtless be an occasional thing to be updated as and when there's time. I apologise in advance for the sporadic nature of posts but I'll either forget or remember at bedtime in which case I'll think 'I'll leave it til morning' and then in the morning forget again until bedtime and so on forever in a sort of lazy, internet version of a mobius strip. It'll be here at thecookthethiefhiswifeandherblogger.blogspot.com