Jon Culshaw
Star of "Dead Ringers", Jon Culshaw has a catalogue of over
350 impressions and is regarded by many to be the best young
impressionist in the UK. He is brilliant for award ceremonies,
after-dinner speaking and personal appearances. Jon Culshaw
always creates a great impression. He first proved it as
the overall winner, ahead of 8000 entrants on BBC Radio
One's "Talent '93" featured on Steve Wright In The Afternoon.
The following year Jon joined the team of impressionists
on "Spitting Image" where he provided the voices to over
40 characters including Frank Bruno, David Frost, Kenneth
Clark, Michael Portillo, Bill Clinton, Mr Motivator, Liam
Gallagher and many more. Jon made international headlines
by calling the switchboard of 10 Downing Street and fooling
the operators with his 'William Hague' impression.
Jon then found to his delight that he was talking directly
to Prime Minister Tony Blair, live on London's Capital FM,
from 10 Downing Street. The incident was duly reported in
Hansard ! After appearing in the 1995 Comic Relief film,
Richard Curtis' "Oliver II Lets Twist Again" as The Elephant
Man, Jon became a regular on C4's "Big Breakfast". Jon's
many TV appearances include - "They Think It's All Over",
"Never Mind the Buzzcocks", "Call My Bluff," "Talking Telephone
Numbers," and "The Big Stage". Jon has made numerous radio
appearances including a radio series entitled "And This
is Them" for BBC Radio 2 via TalkBack, and a third series
of "It's Been A Bad Week" for Celador Productions, a further
series is planned for this Autumn. Jon is part of the much
acclaimed award winning radio 4 series "Dead Ringers" which
was also made into a television series.
The programme won the Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best
Radio Programme 2000, the Sony Gold Radio Academy Award
for Best Comedy Show and the British Comedy Awards 2001
Best Radio Comedy. Within each programme he can be heard
providing his highly praised "wind-up" phone calls. In addition
to this Jon has been an integral part of the Chris Moyles
programme on BBC Radio 1 as the team impressionist and together
with Chris, Jon has been asked to address the Students Union
at Oxford University. Jon Culshaw provides all the impressions
for the 'wind up' phone calls heard on Capital FM's "Steve
Penk Show" some of which have been produced on CD.
