Peter Baynham
- 60 years old
- Welsh
- Actor, writer, producer, executive producer and comedian
Press clippings
Guests announced for new season of RHLSTP
Highlights include League Of Gentlement writer Jeremy Dyson and regular Derren Brown collaborator Andy Nyman on June 26 and Ben Willbond and Laurence Rickard from Ghosts and Bridget Christie on 3 July.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th May 2023BBC Comedy Festival will be in Cardiff on 24th to 26th May
The second annual BBC Comedy Festival - which features sessions for comedy creatives - will take place in Cardiff from Wednesday 24th to Friday 26th May.
British Comedy Guide, 12th April 2023'You're a mentalist!': what happened when Alan Partridge met his number one fan
In Alan's finest half-hour, he offended the Irish, sold a few tie-and-blazer badge combinations and made a new friend. But what inspired it?
Tom Fordy, The Telegraph, 3rd November 2022The Day Today is still funny in fake news era
Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris's satire first aired 27 years ago. These days the media is almost too shameless to satirise, but - as the cast reunite - the show's hilarity remains.
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 13th August 2021The Day Today team reunite for 30th anniversary celebration
The team behind The Day Today have reunited for a 30th anniversary documentary on Radio 4.
British Comedy Guide, 4th August 2021Peter Baynham on writing Borat, Brass Eye & Partridge
This comedy legend pushes the limits. Will his bizarre new showbiz podcast cause more trouble? He talks about the Giuliani sting, enduring 'paedogeddon' with Chris Morris - and David Bowie's frozen dinners.
Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian, 15th June 2021Peter Baynham on the making of I'm Alan Partridge
The Oscar-nominated screenwriter talks the classic BBC sitcom, bringing Alan to the big screen and finding "kindred spirits" in Steve Coogan and Armando Iannucci.
David Craig, Radio Times, 25th March 2021Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: read the screenplay
Read the entire script (pdf).
Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 26th February 2021Iannucci shares set he did of just Tory MPs' jokes
But possibly the best thing to come out the left-wing/right-wing BBC comics debate is this Armando Iannucci tweet, in which he remembered when he tried out Tory MPs' jokes on an unsuspecting audience, pretending it was new material.
The Poke, 1st September 2020Meet Brass Eye, the original Who Is America?
The premiere of Sacha Baron Cohen's new show, Who Is America?, surprised viewers by exposing the incredible lengths some politicians and pundits will go to when provided with a teleprompter to read from while on a legitimate-looking television set. Fans of British satirist Christopher Morris's 1997 TV show Brass Eye, however, were already well-aware of this phenomenon.
Ramsey Ess, Vulture, 17th July 2018