Peter Baynham

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Peter Baynham is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and a British comedy writer and performer born in Cardiff, Wales. He often collaborates with Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris and has worked with Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. Arguably his best works not involving the above 'big names' were the "comic book in radio format" series The Harpoon, and animated sitcom I Am Not an Animal. The former was co-written with Julian Dutton and featured the vocal talents of impressionist Alistair McGowan. The latter was written with the help of Sarah Smith (producer of The Harpoon) and had an all-star cast including Steve Coogan, Kevin Eldon, Amelia Bullmore, Julia Davis and Simon Pegg. He has also appeared on the stand-up circuit as Mr Buckstead, the psychotic poet.

In 2006 Peter co-wrote the film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan together with star Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines and Dan Mazer. In 2007 they received an Oscar Nomination for this.

He was also in the Merchant Navy in his teenage years, and is perhaps the only comedian licenced to pilot a supertanker. Peter graduated from Fleetwood nautical college.

Despite this, Peter is probably best known for his role as the Too Gorgeous man in the Pot Noodle adverts in the mid 1990s. Friend and former colleague, Stewart Lee still actively encourages people to shout the catchphrase at Baynham, whenever seen in the street.^{[citation needed]}

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