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Peter Baynham (born 28 June 1963) is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, and performer.

Baynham often collaborates with Armando Iannucci, Chris Morris and Steve Coogan and has worked with Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. He was first heard on Morris's early radio DJ slots, often reporting from outside the studio. Other works include the "comic book in radio format" series The Harpoon, and animated sitcom I Am Not an Animal. He has appeared on the stand-up circuit as Mr Buckstead, the psychotic poet, and played the "Too Gorgeous" man in a series of mid-1990s Pot Noodle adverts, a campaign he co-wrote with Iannucci, and the role of Peter in the TV series Fist of Fun with Lee and Herring.

In 2006 Baynham co-wrote the film Borat together with star Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines and Dan Mazer, for which they received a 2007 Oscar nomination.

Baynham graduated from Fleetwood nautical college, and served in the Merchant Navy in his teenage years. He is licensed to pilot a supertanker.^[1]

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

• The Chris Morris Music Show (Radio show)
• Fist of Fun (Radio and TV series)
• Lee and Herring (Radio Series)
• The Harpoon (Radio series)
• Junkies (Internet video)
• The Day Today
• Friday Night Armistice and Saturday Night Armistice as himself
• This Morning with Richard Not Judy as himself
• I'm Alan Partridge
• Brass Eye
• The 99p Challenge (Radio series)
• Look Around You
• Red Dwarf

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

• The Harpoon (Radio series)
• The Day Today
• In the Red (Radio series)
• Big Train
• Saturday Night Armistice
• Bob and Margaret
• I'm Alan Partridge
• Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge
• Brass Eye
• Jam
• I am Not an Animal
• Monkey Dust
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
• Brüno
• Arthur
• Arthur Christmas
• Hotel Transylvania
• Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
• Grimsby

• Peter Baynham at IMDb
• Baynham article from The Guardian on "dark" humour
• Baynham entry on Cookdandbombd
• Peter Baynham – His Own Bit, in The Guardian
• BBC Comedy A-Z