Tom Binns

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Tom Binns is a British writer, stand up comic and television and radio presenter. Aside from his involvement in writing comedy sketches, his most notable role is as a radio DJ is often referred to, due to his behavior on the radio programme, "The Tom Binns breakfast show" on London-based Xfm, which led to several complaints being filed to Ofcom and a £50,000 fine given to Xfm, due to the use of coarse sexual innuendo when discussing a bestial pornography video with a listener and led to further complaints after it's repetition in a weekend compilation show.^[1]

Despite the 1999 controversy, Binns has received several accolades; in 1999, Melody maker readers voted his show one of the best of the year -- followed in 2002, by More magazine readers, who voted him as the 25^th sexiest man in the world. Aside from working at Xfm London, Binns has also worked at several other radio stations with similar positions on Radio 1, Virgin and GLR, either as himself or his pseudonym, Ivan Brackenberry, as well as on Virgin Radio and has hosted talk shows on Talksport UK, Hallam FM, Sheffield and Key 103, Manchester.

As well as co-writing jokes on www.topicaljokes.com with joke-smith Gary Delaney, Binns has appeared on other Television shows, such as RI:SE and as a writer on Trigger Happy TV, which he gained recognition for as he earned "The best comedy moment" and "TV moment of 2001" awards. His first television appearances were Knowing Me Knowing Yule with Alan Partridge (BBC2), Friday Night Armistice (BBC2) and Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun, and has gone on to further appear in the Channel 4-based late night sports talk show Under the Moon, with Danny Kelly and stage appearances at the Bloomsbury Theatre.

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.