Peter Baynham


Peter Baynham is a British screenwriter and performer. He often collaborates with Armando Iannucci, Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, Sacha Baron Cohen and has worked with Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. He has written for TV comedy series including The Day Today, I'm Alan Partridge, Brass Eye and Jam. In 2006 Baynham co-wrote the movie ' together with Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines and Dan Mazer, for which they received a 2007 Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Since then he has principally written movies, including Brüno, ' and the animated features Arthur Christmas and Hotel Transylvania. Baynham cohosts the podcast with Jez Simmonds.
Baynham was first heard on Chris Morris's early radio DJ slots, often appearing in and writing for The Chris Morris Music Show, and wrote with Morris on the radio series Blue Jam. Other works include the "comic book in radio format" series The Harpoon and the animated sitcom I Am Not an Animal. He has appeared on the stand-up circuit as Mr Buckstead, the psychotic maths teacher and poet, played Terry the "Too Gorgeous" man in a series of mid-1990s Pot Noodle adverts and the role of "Peter from Balham" in the TV series Fist of Fun with Lee and Herring.
Baynham grew up in Cardiff, graduated from Fleetwood Nautical College and served in the Merchant Navy between the ages of 16 and 21. He is qualified to navigate a supertanker.

Work

As a performer, he has appeared in the following programmes:
As a writer, he has contributed to the following programmes and films: