Jon Holmes is a double gold Sony Award-winning British comedy writer and broadcaster. After Kent University, he started working for Radio 4 as a writer on the satirical news show Weekending, and also for Spitting Image on TV. The Power FM Jon & Andy show (with Andy Hurst ) won him a gold Sony Radio Academy Award for entertainment He's since written for The Now Show and Dead Ringers (for which he won—jointly—his second gold Sony). A stint copresenting the reviled 11 O'Clock Show with Sarah Alexander ('My love for her is almost illegal') is best forgotten; likewise the feeble Gash, a short-lived politics programme presented by Armando Iannucci. The late-night Jon Holmes show on Virgin Radio ran from 2001–2002 but was axed after Virgin were fined £75,000 for the item "Swearing Radio Hangman for the Under-12s". Excerpts from this extremely funny show, including the "Eliminator" and Luke Smith putting complaint letters to music, are available here. Holmes is currently writing and occasionally presenting for, among others, Radio 4's The Now Show.

External links

• Holmes' official site
• Profile on his agent's site, complete with embarrassing picture
• Interview by London Underground (?)
• BBC interview (scroll down)
• Cyberchat