The six-time Sony Award winning writer, comedian and broadcaster called Jon Holmes holds a joint degree in Radio, Film and Television and English from Canterbury. His first book Status Quo and the Kangaroo was published by Penguin in 2007. His own Radio 4 comedy series, “the mischievous offspring of The Day Today and Feedback” (Guardian) Listen Against has just been recommissioned for a second series for 2008 and his paperback book  Rock Star Babylon (Penguin) is out in June.

Upon graduating Jon somehow went to his own show on BBC Radio 4 called Grievous Bodily Radio which was “fast and furious… spot on” according to The Independent and “disgusting” according to the East Anglia Gazette. Since then his other Radio 4 credits have included writing and co-creating the multi award winning Dead Ringers, writing and being a regular panellist on The 99p Challenge, writer / performer on the Sony Award winning and Channel 4 Political Award nominated  The Now Show and he’s a regular cohort of Armando Iannucci, most recently on the 2007 Sony Award winning Charm Offensive for Radio 4 and Time Trumpet for BBC2.

Over on Radio 2 he writes and co-presents The Day The Music Died and hosts his very own Saturday afternoon show on BBC 6 Music. His music radio shows have earned him Sony Gold and Best New Presenter Awards but he’s no stranger top talk radio either, having hosted the Drivetime show on London’s LBC 97.3 where he could be regularly heard “verbally jousting with mentals”. He’s also had his own shows on XFM, Radio 1 and Virgin and it was from the latter that he quite notoriously earned the sack in 2002 when a phone in game called ‘Swearing Radio Hangman for the Under 12s’ went tragically expensive in terms of a record fine. Jon still holds the record for ‘largest fine ever for taste and decency offences in British broadcasting’. Sadly he didn’t get a certificate or anything. A comedy special Jon Holmes on Radio 1 aired on the station last year.

TV work includes writing, performing and presenting in various combinations on Time Trumpet (BBC2), Mock The Week (BBC2) 7 Days (BBC3) The Impressionable Jon Culshaw (ITV1), Armando Iannucci’s Gash (CH4) , The State We’re In and Celebdaq (both BBC3), Have I Got News For You, 29 Minutes of Fame, ( both BBC1) and co-hosting  Series 5 of The 11 O’Clock Show (CH4). He was also Programme Consultant on the multi award winning V Graham Norton (CH4), regular guest on The Wright Stuff (CH5), and Sky News where he makes the presenter Anna Botting go red and start giggling. He’s also been on This Morning (ITV1) a few times where he once called Phillip Schofield a “witch”. He was approached to see if he wanted to be stuck in the jungle for ITV1’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here but told them to sod off.

He wrote the script for the BAFTA Awards with, and for, Stephen Fry to great acclaim and was the host for the MOJO Awards. He also wrote Tickled Pink, a live charity show from the Royal Albert Hall featuring Westlife, Mariah Carey and Sheryl Crow, Emporio Armani's Red Live Fashion Show (which saw him writing for Bono, Leonardo DiCaprio and getting into an embarrassing scrape with Beyonce) and the 2006 Secret Policeman's Ball  which was nominated for a BAFTA.

He has been variously described as “clever…but warped” by The Sunday Times, “a genius” by Heat, “wickedly funny” by The Times and “a tosser” by Martine McCutcheon in an interview in Smash Hits. He is most proud of that one.