Matthew Holness
Matthew Holness is a British comedian. Hailing from Whitstable in Kent, Holness read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was vice-president of the Cambridge Footlights.
In 2000, Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight, a stage show written by Holness and Richard Ayoade, and starring Holness, Ayoade and Alice Lowe, was nominated for the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe. The show was built around Holness's spoof horror writer character Garth Marenghi, with additional parts played by Ayoade and Lowe. The sequel to Fright Knight, Garth Marenghi's Netherhead, won the Perrier Award the following year.
Garth Marenghi transferred to UK television in the 2004 Channel 4 horror comedy Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Despite critical acclaim and a cult following on the Internet the series suffered from relatively low ratings, and Holness is perhaps better known by TV audiences for his cameo as Simon (the Computer Guy) in series two of The Office.
Holness's most recent comedy creation, Merriman Weir, a guitar-picking folk singer, can be found performing at small comedy clubs in London and around the UK. Merriman Weir has also appeared as a guest in the pilot episode of Channel 4's new comedy chat show Deano's After Dark (2005) where he was interviewed by Garth Marenghi's publicist Dean Learner - a character created by Richard Ayoade.
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Matthew Holness is a British comedian. Hailing from Whitstable in Kent, Holness read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was vice-president of the Cambridge Footlights.
In 2000, Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight, a stage show written by Holness and Richard Ayoade, and starring Holness, Ayoade and Alice Lowe, was nominated for the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe. The show was built around Holness's spoof horror writer character Garth Marenghi, with additional parts played by Ayoade and Lowe. The sequel to Fright Knight, Garth Marenghi's Netherhead, won the Perrier Award the following year.
Garth Marenghi transferred to UK television in the 2004 Channel 4 horror comedy Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Despite critical acclaim and a cult following on the Internet the series suffered from relatively low ratings, and Holness is perhaps better known by TV audiences for his cameo as Simon (the Computer Guy) in series two of The Office.
Holness's most recent comedy creation, Merriman Weir, a guitar-picking folk singer, can be found performing at small comedy clubs in London and around the UK. Merriman Weir has also appeared as a guest in the pilot episode of Channel 4's new comedy chat show Deano's After Dark (2005) where he was interviewed by Garth Marenghi's publicist Dean Learner - a character created by Richard Ayoade.