Jon Holmes

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Jon Holmes (born 24 April 1973) is a double gold Sony Award-winning British comedy writer and broadcaster.

After Canterbury Christ Church 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 has since written for The Now Show , on which he also performs, and Dead Ringers (for which he won—jointly—his second gold Sony). He then spent time copresenting the fifth series of the 11 O'Clock Show on Channel 4 television with Sarah Alexander. This show was never popular with critics, and Jon's was the final series before it was axed. He was also involved in Gash, a nightly politics programme (broadcast to coincide with the 2003 local elections) presented by Armando Iannucci. Also alongside Iannucci he appears on Radio 4's The 99p Challenge which he also co-writes. On The Now Show, Holmes is regularly mocked for his short stature by his co-presenters as a running joke (see heightism). He has also recently been writing bits of Iannucci's Time Trumpet on BBC2.

The late-night Jon Holmes show on Virgin Radio ran from 2001–2002 but was discontinued after Virgin were fined £75,000 for the item "Swearing Radio Hangman for the Under-12s". Excerpts from this show, including the "Eliminator" and Luke Smith putting complaint letters to music, are available here. Holmes is currently writing and presenting for, among others, Radio 4's The Now Show and Radio 2's The Day The Music Died. He also recently fronted his own Radio 1 show and is the voice of BBC3's The Comic Side of 7 Days and Crash Test Danny for The Discovery Channel.

Since early 2006, he has deputised for Iain Lee on London talk station LBC 97.3 when Iain is away. Jon Holmes will move into a full time slot every Friday afternoon for a drive time show on LBC starting in January 2007. Beginning in September 2006, Jon presents his own regular Saturday afternoon programme on BBC 6 Music. ^[1] His first book, Status Quo and the Kangaroo, is due to be published in May 2007.