Tom Binns, who was born in in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, is a British writer, actor, comic, television presenter, and radio presenter.
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 Comedy God in 2010. He also was nominated for a 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, the IT Crowd on Channel 4, and in character as "Ivan Brackenbury", on The Jason Byrne Show and 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. Binns has also worked on Radio 1, Virgin, BRMB and GLR, Talksport UK, Hallam FM, Sheffield and Key 103, appearing either as himself or as hospital radio character "Ivan Brackenbury".
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. Binns is the co-writer of BBC 1's Hospital People, part of the BBC's Comedy Playhouse. He has also written the book, How to Get Famous - A Cynical Guide.
