Jon Culshaw
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| Birth name | Jonathan Peter Culshaw |
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2 June 1968 Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Years active | 1980s–present |
| Genres | Impressions, sketch comedy |
| Notable works and roles | Dead Ringers (2000–07, 2014–) 2DTV (2001–04) The Impressionable Jon Culshaw (2004) Headcases (2008) The Impressions Show (2009—) Newzoids (2015—) |
Jonathan Peter "Jon" Culshaw (born 2 June 1968) is an English impressionist and comedian, best known for his work on the radio comedy Dead Ringers since 2000.
Culshaw has voiced a number of characters for ITV shows including 2DTV (2001), Spitting Image (1994–96) and Newzoids (2015–present), as well as appearing in The Impressions Show alongside Debra Stephenson since 2009.
Culshaw was born in Ormskirk, Lancashire and educated at St Bede's RC High School and St John Rigby College, Wigan.
Culshaw's radio career began in hospital radio in Ormskirk. His first job was at Red Rose Radio (now Rock FM) in Preston in 1987, where, even then, he used to occasionally read the weather in the voice of Frank Bruno. He did voice-over work, then was catapulted to prominence with Spitting Image, where he voiced around forty characters, including John Major, then the Prime Minister.
Culshaw is also a former student of Canterbury Christ Church University.
For around four years in the late 1980s, Culshaw was a DJ on commercial radio station Viking FM, based in Hull, and also had 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 persuaded Culshaw that he should go onstage with his impressions and make it his living. Culshaw later appeared on BBC Radio 2's It's Been a Bad Week, appeared as a guest on the BBC Two Star Trek Night quiz in August 1996, and was also a regular guest on the Chris Moyles afternoon show on BBC Radio 1 from 1998 to 2002, where he would phone up commercial organisations such as a Kwik-Fit garage in the voice of Patrick Moore or Obi-Wan Kenobi politely requesting whether they could service his X-wing fighter and how much time it would take.
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