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jon holmes
jon holmes
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.
Awards
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British Comedy Awards (Best Radio Show)
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Sony Radio Awards (2 x Comedy Gold
Winner)
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Sony Radio Awards (3 x Comedy Bronze
Winner)
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Sony Radio Awards (1 x Silver Winner)
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Broadcasting Press Guild Awards (Best
Radio Show)
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Commercial Radio Awards (Best New
Presenter)
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2005 Channel 4 Political Awards
(Nominee)
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2005 Rose d’Or International TV Awards
(Nominee)
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