Tom Binns

From Media UK's The Knowledge. Last update: 15:14, 20 Jul 2006 by Michael Wincott. Based on work by Andrew Garner and Tom binns.

Tom Binns currently presents drive time on Kerrang! 105.2. He also writes the comedy ID's that have help Kerrang! win several station imaging awards.

Tom cut his teeth in comedy at the Comedy Café in London and on the BBC Radio Comedy Network. His first television appearances were in "Knowing Me Knowing Yule with Alan Partridge", "Friday Night Armistice" and "Fist of Fun".

In 1999 the readers of Melody Maker voted "Tom Binns Breakfast" on XFM as one of their Top Ten Radio shows of the year.

One of the sketches Tom Binns wrote for Trigger Happy TV made it into both the BBC and Channel 4 polls for best comedy moment and TV moment of 2001.

In 2002, while Tom Binns was presenting Ri:se the live breakfast show on Channel 4, readers of More magazine voted Tom the 25th sexiest man in the world. Leaving George Clooney trailing behind at number 33.

Joan Rivers recently worked with Tom Binns when he hosted a very expensive pilot episode of Celebrity Squares for So TV and Five. Most of the money went to the guests like Joan, Bridgett Nielson, Coolio and Anneka Rice.

Binns is currently writing a sitcom, doing more TV pilots, hosting the occasional radio talk show, developing TV shows, performing stand up and sailing catamarans.

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