James Sherwood made his name in topical comedy, writing one-liners for commercial radio stations. During the 2005 general election campaign, his political material appeared on BBC Radio 1, 2, and 4. He has also written for Private Eye and is a frequent studio pundit on the Sky News Paper Review.

He is also a musician, mainly a classical singer, but also a pianist, composer and arranger. His vocal arrangement of the University Challenge theme tune featured in a BBC2 documentary about the TV quiz. He is a regular choral singer on the London church scene, despite not being a Christian - a contradiction he explored in his 2006 solo Edinburgh debut I Know What You Did Last Sunday.

In his pre-comedy career in public relations, his campaigns included the UK launch of the Blackberry handheld email device.

Trivia: his great-grandfather (also James Sherwood) scored the only goal in the 1914 Amateur FA Cup Final.

CV

Good solid stand-up here, but nothing earth-shattering I'm afraid. Nice approach, strong topical material, but I'm not sure how much I'll remember tomorrow.

Michael Monkhouse, January 2008

Pretty funny...but a bit too Richard Stilgoe in places.

Jo Phelan, October 2007

Clever, original, but most of all, very very funny.

Mike Manera, January 2004

Very good. Struggles manfully with a likeness to that bloke from 'Peep Show', but nonetheless very good.

Silky, January 2004