Peter Baynham

About

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...

Known for

The BillSeries • 1984Hotel TransylvaniaMovie • 2012Shaun of the DeadMovie • 2004Arthur ChristmasMovie • 2011The DictatorMovie • 2012Ron's Gone WrongMovie • 2021I'm Alan PartridgeSeries • 1997Bob and MargaretSeries • 1998Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of KazakhstanMovie • 2006Brass EyeSeries • 1997Ali G: Who Iz I?Movie • 2026BrünoMovie • 2009GrimsbyMovie • 2016Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of KazakhstanMovie • 2020The Day TodaySeries • 1994JamSeries • 2000I Am Not an AnimalSeries • 2004Big TrainSeries • 1998ArthurMovie • 2011Still CrazyMovie • 1998Alan Partridge: Alpha PapaMovie • 2013Borat: VHS Cassette of Material Deemed "Sub-Acceptable" by Kazakhstan Ministry of Censorship and CircumcisionMovie • 2021Anglian Lives: Alan PartridgeMovie • 2003