Peter Baynham

Known for WritingBorn 1963-06-28 (age 62)Cardiff, Wales, UK

Peter Baynham is a Welsh screenwriter and performer. He is best known for appearing in a series of comedic Pot Noodle television adverts in the 1990s. His work largely represents collaborations with comedy figures such as Armando Iannucci, Steve Coogan, Chris Morris, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Sarah Smith. Born in Cardiff, Baynham served in the Merchant Navy after leaving school and later pursued a career in comedy — first in stand-up, and then as a writer and performer for various news and sketch comedies in radio and television while enjoying personal fame starring in Pot Noodle adverts. He then became a writer in feature film. In television, with Iannucci he is writer for I'm Alan Partridge, developing the character Alan Partridge as performed by Coogan, and as writer and host of the Armistice review shows. With Morris, he is writer for The Day Today, Brass Eye, and Jam. Baynham himself created the animated series I Am Not an Animal. In feature film, with Baron Cohen he is writer for Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006), Brüno (2009), Grimsby (2016), and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020). With Smith, he is writer for Arthur Christmas (2011) and Ron's Gone Wrong (2021). With Iannucci and Coogan, he is writer for Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013). Other features as writer include Arthur (2011) and Hotel Transylvania (2012). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRead more

Movies & web series

Introducing Tony Ferrino: Who and Why? A Quest

Bob Monkhouse: The Last Stand

I Am Not an Animal

Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom?

The Day Today

Jam

Ron's Gone Wrong

Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge

Brass Eye

Shaun of the Dead

I'm Alan Partridge

Big Train

The Saturday Night Armistice

Hotel Transylvania

Combat Sheep

Fist of Fun

Arthur Christmas

Bob and Margaret

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Lee and Herring Live

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

Still Crazy

Borat: VHS Cassette of Material Deemed "Sub-Acceptable" by Kazakhstan Ministry of Censorship and Circumcision

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

The Bill

Terry Wogan's Friday Night

The Dictator

Grimsby

Brüno

Arthur

Cruise of the Gods

Bright Day

The Junkies