Guy Jenkin is a comedy writer who is best known for working on sitcoms and comedies such as Drop the Dead Donkey, Jeffrey Archer: The Truth and Outnumbered. He wrote the 2003 drama film The Sleeping Dictionary, starring Jessica Alba, as well as the BBC Radio 4 situation comedy Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful, with Jon Canter.
He also contributed to the popular drama Life On Mars, writing the sixth episode of the second series about heroin in 1973 and the Asian community. The episode explores racism at the time.