Tom Binns
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Tom Binns is a writer, comedian, actor, talkshow host, stand up comic, radio and television presenter.
He is also the voice and creator of Ivan Brackenberry the Hospital Radio DJ. [1]
He is the co-writer of www.topicaljokes.com with joke-smith Gary Delaney and he presents the drivetime show on BRMB a radio station in Birmingham, UK. Features on the show include Binnsy's Sound, A Day in the Life of a Small Child, the Pound Minute and the Wheel of Meat.
He cut his teeth in stand up comedy, comparing at the Comedy Cafe in London. He supported comedian Stewart Lee on the BBC Radio Comedy Network Tour.
His first television appearances as an actor were in Knowing Me Knowing Yule with Alan Partridge (BBC2), Friday Night Armistice (BBC2) and Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun (BBC2).
He co-presented the Channel 4's late night sports talk show Under the Moon, with Danny Kelly.
He has appeared on Radio 1, Virgin and GLR as his alter ego Hospital Radio DJ, Ivan Brakenberry. He has also performed the character at The Bloomsbury Theatre in London.
In 1999 the readers of Melody Maker voted Tom Binns Breakfast on XFM as one of their Top Ten Radio shows of the year. He left XFM shortly after the radio station received a fine of £50,000 for jokes he made in the show.
The station repeated the jokes in a weekend compilation show (Best of Binns). Complaints were made to the Radio Authority about the repeated show and it was found that the jokes were in breach of the UK radio authority code.
Tom has also worked as DJ on Virgin Radio and has hosted talk shows on Talksport UK, Hallam FM, Sheffield and Key 103, Manchester where he achieved cult status as the regular stand in for James Stannage.
One of the sketches he wrote for Trigger Happy TV (C4) made it into both the BBC and Channel 4 polls for best comedy moment and TV moment of 2001.
In 2002, while Tom Binns was presenting RI:SE the live breakfast show on Ch 4, readers of More Magazine voted Tom the 25th sexiest man in the world.
Tom has written a deeply ironic book How to Get Famous - a cynical guide. Although his has recorded many pilots for TV shows including his own chat show on Channel 5 and the UK version of Hollywood Squares Binns has failed to break through into the mainstream British media.
