Jon Harvey

Jon Harvey is a writer, performer and producer specialising in comedy. He has produced, written for and appeared on many of the biggest satirical TV shows of the last thirty years, including The Thick Of It, Have I Got News For You, Time Trumpet with Armando Iannucci, Yes Minister and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. His Radio 4 shows with Rob Newman have won two BBC Audio Drama Awards, and his online comedy videos have amassed over 70 million hits. In 2019 the New Yorker garlanded him for creating one of the 'Jokes Of The Year' with his Succession parody starring Boris Johnson, and Richard Osman even has one of Jon's cartoons framed on his wall. Recently, Jon has co-created and produced the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 comedy series The Ultimate Choice, starring Steph McGovern. In 2023 Jon's debut non-fiction book was published, a memoir about sport, life and grief entitled A Fan For All Seasons.

Jon is also the human alter-ego of Count Binface, the alien political candidate whose unique manifesto (reintroducing Ceefax, price-capping croissants at £1, renaming London Bridge after Phoebe Waller, and much more) saw him become officially London's ninth choice to be Mayor of London, beating Piers Corbyn and UKIP. In 2023 Count Binface made his West End debut, performing to a packed house of 1200 people in the Cambridge Theatre, Covent Garden. Binface's debut humour book, What on Earth? was published in 2022. He is running for London Mayor again in 2024.