Career
Binns was nominated at the Edinburgh Festival for the Edinburgh Comedy Award 2007 for his hospital radio DJ character Ivan Brackenbury. He has been twice nominated for the Adelaide Fringe Comedy Award, in 2010 and 2011. He was voted a Foster's Lager, Foster's Comedy God in 2010. He also was nominated for a Chortle Awards, Chortle Award in 2011 and was also named in a list of their 50 Most Memorable Gigs of the decade. He won the Best International Act at the 2013 New Zealand International Comedy Festival and was nominated for Best Comedy Show at FringeWorld, Perth in 2015 and 2016. He appears in the BBC MI5 drama ''Spooks (TV series), Spooks'' (Episode 6 Series 6), Series 3 of the ''IT Crowd'' on Channel 4, and, in character as Ivan Brackenbury, on ''The Jason Byrne Show'' and ''Alan Partridge#Knowing Me.2C Knowing You, Knowing Me Knowing Yule with Alan Partridge''. As Ian D Montfort he had a BBC Radio 2 series called ''Ian D Montfort is Unbelievable'', broadcast in February 2013. and appeared in the comedy movie Eaten by Lions in 2017. Besides writing comedy for television and radio, Binns has appeared on other television shows, such as ''RI:SE'', ''Bullrun'', ''Oblivion'' and as a writer on ''Trigger Happy TV'', for which he earned "best comedy moment" and "TV moment of 2001" awards. His first television appearances were ''Friday Night Armistice'' (BBC2) and Lee and Herring's ''Fist of Fun'', and has gone on to further appear in the Channel 4-based late night sports talk show ''Under the Moon'', with Danny Kelly (journalist), Danny Kelly and stage appearances at the Bloomsbury Theatre and Garrick Theatre. Binns has worked on BBC Radio 1, Radio 1, Virgin Radio, Virgin, BRMB and BBC London 94.9, GLR, Talksport, Talksport UK, Hallam FM and Key 103, appearing either as himself or as hospital radio character Ivan Brackenbury. Binns is the co-writer of BBC 1's ''Hospital People'', part of the BBC's Comedy Playhouse, in which he plays the five lead characters Ivan Brackenbury, Ian D Montfort, Susan Mitchell, Terry Boyle and Father Kenny. He has written the book ''How to Get Famous - A Cynical Guide''.Controversies
In 1999, London-based radio station Xfm was fined £50,000 by the Ofcom, Radio Authority following complaints regarding the use of coarse sexual innuendo when discussing a bestiality, bestial pornography video with a listener during ''the Tom Binns Breakfast Show''. Parent company Capital Radio decided not to sack Binns but in a meeting shortly after the fine was issued, the Radio Authority made it clear to Capital Radio that this would negatively affect the decision to renew the XFM licence. In December 2009, Binns was fired from BRMB by its owners Orion Media after he cut short the Royal Christmas Message, Queen's Christmas Message. The Message was played into his show in error instead of the expected two-minute news bulletin. Binns joked, "Two words: bore-ring". He then went on to joke that the British monarchy can't be as good for tourism as some people claim because "the French executed theirs and people still visit France" and played a George Michael record with the link "from one queen to another".Filmography
Film
* 2017: ''Eaten by Lions''Television
* ''Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge (TV series), Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge'' BBC2 * Lee and Herring's ''Fist of Fun'' BBC2 * ''The IT Crowd'' Channel 4 * ''Spooks (TV series), Spooks'' BBC1 * ''Spicks and Specks (TV series), Spicks and Specks'' ABC1 * ''Crossroads (UK TV series), Crossroads'' ITV1 * ''Under the Moon'' Channel 4 * ''RI:SE'' Channel 4 * ''Whitbread Race Coverage'' BBC2 * ''Saturday Night Armistice'' BBC2 * ''The Bull Run'' Channel 5 * ''Tom Binns Munchies'' Channel 5 * ''Hospital People'' BBC1 * ''8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown'' Channel 4Live shows
* 2007: ''Ivan Brackenbury's Hospital Radio Roadshow'' * 2008: ''Ivan Brackenbury's Christmas Show'' * 2009: ''Ivan Brackenbury's Disease Hour'' * 2010: ''Ivan Brackenbury's Hospital Radio Remix'' * 2010: ''Ian D Montfort: Touching the Dead'' * 2011: ''Ian D Montfort: Spirit Comedium'' * 2012: ''Ian D Montfort: Unbelievable'' * 2012: ''Tom Binns does Ivan Brackenbury and others'' * 2013: ''Ian D Montfort: Psychic Fayre'' *2014: ''Ian D Montfort: Midday Seance'' *2014: ''Tom Binns has not been himself'' *2015: ''Ian D Montfort: Under Sciencey Conditions'' *2015: ''Tom Binns: The Club Sets''Radio
* ''Fist of Fun'' on BBC Radio 1 * ''Digital Update'' on BBC Radio 1 * ''The Ivan Brackenbury Show'' on BBC Radio 2 * ''The Jason Byrne Show'' on BBC Radio 2 * ''99p Challenge'' on BBC Radio 4 * ''Ian D Montfort is Unbelievable'' on BBC Radio 2Awards and accolades
Binns has received several accolades: * ''Melody Maker'' readers voted his show best of the year in 1999. * More (magazine), ''More'' magazine readers voted him as the 25th sexiest man in the world 2002. * Nominee for the ''Edinburgh Comedy'' Award at the Edinburgh Festival 2007 * Nominee for ''Best Established Comedian'' at the Adelaide Fringe 2010 and 2011 *Voted Foster Comedy God in 2010 (Top Ten most popular Edinburgh Comedy Award Winners) *Chortle Award Nominee 2011 Best Character Comic * Best International Act New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2013 *Best Comedy Show Nomination 2014 and 2015 * ''Best Act'' award winner at the Midlands Comedy Awards 2015.References
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