Jon Culshaw

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Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968) is an English impressionist and comedian best known for his appearance on the radio comedy Dead Ringers. Culshaw has appeared on several television shows, including 2DTV (2001), Spitting Image (1994–96), and Newzoids (2015–2016), as well as appearing in The Impressions Show alongside Debra Stephenson from 2009 to 2011.

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Early life and career

Culshaw was born in Ormskirk, Lancashire, on June 2nd, 1968, and he was educated at St Bede's RC High School and St John Rigby College, Wigan.

Culshaw's radio career began in Ormskirk's hospital radio. He started working in Preston, Red Rose Radio (now Rock FM), where, even then, he used to occasionally read the weather in Frank Bruno's voice. He did voice-over work but was then catapulted to fame with Spitting Image, where he portrayed around forty characters, including John Major in the 1990s, who was then Prime Minister David Cameron.

Culshaw is also a former Canterbury Christ Church University undergraduate.

Culshaw was a DJ on commercial radio station Viking FM, based in Hull, for around four years, and he also hosted a breakfast show on Pennine Radio (now the Pulse of West Yorkshire) and Radio Wave in Blackpool. It was a receptionist at Viking FM who told Culshaw that he should go on stage with his impressions and make it his livelihood. Culshaw also appeared on BBC Radio 2's It's Been a Bad Week in August 1996, where he was on CBS Radio 1 from 1998 to 2002, where he would call up commercial companies like a Kwik-Fit garage in the voice of Patrick Moore or Obi-Wan Kenobi politely asking whether they could afford his X-wing warrior and how much time it would take.

Career

When working with Steve Penk on Capital Radio, Culshaw came to fame in January 1998 by impersonating William Hague and winning in contact with Number 10 Downing Street. Tony Blair, who figured out the ruse, had a lengthy chat with him until a member of Blair's staff ended the call.

Culshaw was one of the original cast members of the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Dead Ringers from 2000 to 2007, as well as the BBC Two television series of the same name from 2002 to 2007. In 2014, Dead Ringers' radio series made a return to BBC Radio 4.

David Bowie, the late comedian in the BBC radio play The Final Take: Bowie in the Studio, an imagined account of Bowie as he works on his final album and reflections on his life.

Culshaw hosted Alter Ego, an ITV show that captured male celebrities in their own way of speaking, which was a form of simultaneous translation. Culshaw also appeared on 2DTV, a cartoon adaptation of Dead Ringers. He had his own program when he started early 2004, working with the same production team, The Impressable Jon Culshaw was hired for ITV.

Culshaw was the fourth person to be banned from the Comic Relief Does Fame Academy in 2005. In the guises of Tony Blair and George W. Bush, he appeared in the BBC General Election coverage for the second year in the guises of Tony Blair and George W. Bush. Culshaw's Commercial Breakdown began in January 2006 and featured one of BBC show Jon Culshaw's Commercial Breakdown. Culshaw, a keen amateur astronomer, appeared on The Sky at Night in November and December 2008, impersonating a young Sir Patrick Moore. In March 2011, he appeared on the 700th episode of The Sky at Night, answering viewer questions to the panel of experts. Culshaw appeared on the Northern Lights two months after reporting on the Northern Lights.

He appeared on Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack in January 2008 as part of Chris Moyles' pub-quiz team. Culshaw appeared in the BBC documentary series Comedy Map of Britain in May 2008.

Since 2009, Culshaw has appeared in The Impressions Show, a BBC One comedy sketch comedy starring Debra Stephenson.

Jon was a guest judge on BBC One's charity program Let's Dance for Comic Relief on March 13, 2010. He appeared on the program in 2013, where he performed a routine to "Praise You" by Fatboy Slim. However, he was disqualified by the general election.

Culshaw appeared in the television series in 2010, Missing as Des Martin. In November 2013, Culshaw appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy tribute to Doctors Reboot.

Since 2015, he has appeared alongside Debra Stephenson on the ITV sketch show Newzoids. In 2016, a second series appeared.

Jon was one of the minor hosts of the Channel 5 documentary series Secrets of the National Trust in 2017. Culshaw appeared on Celebrity Mastermind in February 2021, doing "Doctor Who - the Jon Pertwee Years" for his special interest.

Culshaw narrates the Channel 4 property series "Sun, Sea, and Selling Houses."

Culshaw appeared as Tony Blair in the 2004 film Churchill: The Hollywood Years, and as Piston Pete in the 2008 film Agent Crush.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Obi-Wan Kenobi (in the Alec Guinness persona), Russell Crowe, President George W. Bush and Donald Trump, Ozzy Osbourne, comedian Boris Johnson, Ozzy Osbourne, Sir Patrick Moore, Tom Baker, and Les Dawson are among Culshaw's most popular video clips.

Culshaw has appeared in a number of Doctor Who-related scripts in various roles. For both the television and radio versions of Dead Ringers, this first came to fruition.

In addition to that, he has appeared in the webcast "Death Comes to Time" and audio drama The Kingmaker. In the latter, he'd have to perform his Tom Baker impression "for real" (voicing tape recordings of the fourth Doctor), but Earl Rivers was not involved. He appeared in a trilogy of Doctor Who audio dramas alongside Fifth Doctor Peter Davison, portraying the shape-shifting android Kamelion. He played Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart alongside Tim Treloar as the Third Doctor later in life.

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