Television
Co-wrote and appeared in 2009 Unwrapped, a review of the year for BBC Two but with entirely fabricated news stories with judicious use of re-edited news footage and video archive not dissimilar to Holmes's own Listen Against on Radio 4. The show aired at Christmas 2009 to favourable reviews.
Also co-writes BBC1's The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson. The show was a big hit for Saturday nights and a second series will air in Autumn 2010. Holmes also co-writes Horrible Histories, for BBC One, for which he won two BAFTAs in 2010 as part of the writing team.
Apart from the transfer of Radio 4's Dead Ringers, in 2002 Holmes co-presented the fifth series of the 11 O'Clock Show on Channel 4 television with Sarah Alexander. He also wrote for Graham Norton on his award-winning Channel 4 show V Graham Norton and co-presented BBC3's The State We're In, in which he was beaten up by the SAS. Holmes also wrote and appeared in Gash, a nightly politics programme which was broadcast to coincide with the 2003 local elections and presented by Armando Iannucci. He also co-wrote Iannucci's Time Trumpet for BBC2.
In 2005, with Dead Ringers's Jon Culshaw, Holmes co-wrote and script edited ITV1's The Impressionable Jon Culshaw. He also played various roles in various sketches. The show was nominated for the Golden Rose of Montreux TV Award.
Selected other credits include Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week and The Harry Hill Show. He is also the voice of BBC Three's 7 Days and Crash Test Danny for the Discovery Channel.
He regularly appears on Sky News to preview the following morning's newspapers.
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