Tom
Binns
Tom Binns has written for many award-winning prime-time television shows in the Britain. He regularly tops the bill as the headline act at some of the best comedy clubs in the UK. This year he's performing at most of the major UK festivals including Glastonbury, Download, Knebworth and Edinburgh.
He has also presented many shows on British Television including his own chat show Tom Binns Munchies on FIVE and Under the Moon & Ri:se on C4.
Tom is an award-winning radio broadcaster presenting, among others Tom Binns Breakfast on Londons XFM and his talk show The Tom Binns Thing on Key103, TalkSport and Hallam FM.
He is the author of the deeply ironic, 'How to Get Famous - A Cynical Guide' [Carlton Books] and is in the middle of writing 'A Time For Meaning'.
His alter ego Ivan Brackenbury from BBC Radio 2 and has written and starred in two sell out Edinburgh Festival Shows, and was nominated for an Eddie Comedy Award [Perrier Award].
Tom has acted in television in Spooks (MI5 in US) [BBC], IT Crowd [C4] and Alan Partridge [BBC].
He find the time to run a Creativity Coaching Practice where he helps other performers and arites deal with the psychological emotional existential and practical problems associated with Creativity. www.thecreativitypractice.com and www.tombinns.com
Press for tom Binns
"Exquisite Writing...special in every sense of the word" -
The Scotsman ****
"A Comedy Genius" -
The Times Online ****
"You'll spend an hour glorying in the stupid ways we find to keep ourselves amused, and then you'll leave, still chuckling at them" -
The Times ****
"Not only a laugh a minute but a laugh every ten seconds" -
Time Out ****
"intensely funny....an all-round clown, which allows Binns to get away with some far sicker jokes than many apparently edgier acts." -
Guardian ****
"ridiculously enjoyable fun...a never-ending bombardment of great gags...genuinely sublime" -
Chortle *****
