Kevin Eldon

Kevin Eldon is a British Actor Comedian and Songwriter He featured in the major British TV comedies of the 1990s including Fist of Fun Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge Big Train Brass Eye and Jam In 2013 Eldon appeared in his own BBC sketch series Its Kevin He has also appeared in minor speaking roles in the HBO series Game of Thrones Eldon was born in Chatham Kent He has been a practising Buddhist since 1990 He has two children with his wife Holly who he met in late 2005 on the set of Hyperdrive where she was the art director Eldon occupies half a page in Oliver Grays book called Volume A Cautionary Tale of Rock and Roll Obsession this includes coverage of punkera Hampshire where in late 1978 with two schoolmates from Bay House School Gosport Eldon started a band named Virginia Doesnt Virginia Doesnts career peaked with a session broadcast on Radio Ones John Peel Show on 18 October 1979 In early 1980 Virginia Doesnt morphed into The Time in which Eldon was again the front man The Time recorded and performed from April 1980 until August 1982 during which time the band gigged extensively and played support slots with The Jam Joe Jacksons Jumpin Jive and Bad Manners The Time had songs included on several selfreleased tape compilations although they never secured a recording contract In August 1982 The Time became Gerry Hackett The Fringes a spoof Sixties revival band On 6 November 1983 Gerry Hackett The Fringes appeared on BBC Souths The Cellar Show presented by John Sessions Eldon started on the standup circuit in the early 1990s performing an act incharacter as the political poet Paul Hamilton but has also on occasion done standup as himself On the circuit Eldon formed a friendship with standup comedian Stewart Lee which would later lead to an invitation to work with him on the radio series Lee Herrings Fist of Fun with Lees comedy partner Richard Herring Lee and Herring would usually refer to him as the actor Kevin Eldon in reference to his claim to being an actor rather than a comedian Eldons work sat well with that of Lee and Herring and he continued to work with them on many of their projects including The Lee Herring Radio Show Fist of Fun and This Morning with Richard Not Judy He played recurring characters Simon Quinlank the selfstyled King of Hobbies and Rod Hull a nonsensical version of Rod Hull with a prosthetic limb and an obsession with jelly especially the green variety In 1994 and 1997 he appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part the comedy troupe Cluub Zarathustra other comedians in the troupe including Roger Mann Johnny Vegas Simon Munnery and later Stewart Lee They were given a Channel 4 pilot which led to the television series Attention Scum The book You Are Nothing by Robert Wringham praises the performers talent From March 2009 Eldon appeared in Stewart Lees Comedy Vehicle in a number of the shows sketches most often with Paul Putner