Peter Baynham

Peter Baynham is a British comedy writer and perfomer, who hails from Cardiff in Wales. He often collaborates with Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris and has worked with Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. He was one of the writers on the radio show On the Hour, the primordial soup of Lee and Herring, Steve Coogan, and Chris Morris' acclaimed outputs. Arguably his best work not involving the above 'big names' was the "comic book in radio format" series The Harpoon which was co-written with Julian Dutton and featured the vocal talents of impressionist Alistair MacGowan. He has also appeared on the stand-up circuit as Mr Buckstead, the psychotic poet.

He was also in the Merchant Navy in his teenage years, when he gained a licence to pilot a supertanker.

As a perfomer, he has appeared in the following programmes:

• Fist of Fun (Radio series)
• The Harpoon (Radio series)
• The Day Today
• Fist of Fun
• Saturday Night Armistice as himself
• This Morning With Richard Not Judy as himself
• I'm Alan Partridge
• Brass Eye

As a writer, he has contributed to the following programmes:

• The Harpoon (Radio series)
• The Day Today
• Saturday Night Armistice
• I'm Alan Partridge
• Brass Eye
• Jam
• I am not an animal
• Monkeydust

External links

• Peter Baynham at IMDb
• Baynham article from The Guardian on "dark" humour
• Baynham entry on Cookdandbombd
• Peter Baynham - His Own Bit, in The Guardian