[2] He attended Canterbury Christ Church College,[3] where he graduated with a joint degree in English with radio, film and television.

Virgin was fined a record £75,000 for Holmes's feature "Swearing Radio Hangman for the Under-12s", in which he persuaded a nine-year-old girl to spell out and then repeat the phrase "soapy tit wank".

[citation needed] On 19 December 2012, it was announced that Holmes would be taking over from Danny Wallace as presenter of the XFM London breakfast show from 7 January 2013.

In March 2016 it was announced that Holmes would move to the new-to-launch speech station Talkradio to present the weekday afternoon slot.

[citation needed] Following a pilot in 2019, since January 2020 Holmes has produced his BBC Radio 4 soundscape dark satire The Skewer.

[citation needed] Holmes occasionally replaces holidaying presenters on Radio 2, with co-presenter Miranda Hart.

Jon Holmes is a highly experienced presenter from BBC Radio 6 Music [...] BBC Radio 2 appreciates if their presentation wasn't to everyone's liking, but feels it's important to be able to bring new talent to its output and hopes its audience understands the importance of maintaining a breadth of content on the network.

The premise featured 'Jeremy' taking phone calls to give advice from various celebrities played by impressionists Terry Mynott and Jess Robinson.

[15] Holmes hosted The XFM London Daily Breakfast Show, alongside Matt Dyson, Dave Masterman and a series of interns from 7 January 2013.

It was also confirmed that Moyles would run the new station's breakfast show[17] in direct competition with his Radio 1 successor Nick Grimshaw.

[citation needed] On Monday 7 March 2016, Holmes was revealed to be the afternoon presenter on the newly launched Talkradio.

[22] Apart from the transfer of Radio 4's Dead Ringers, in 2002 Holmes co-presented the fifth series of The Eleven O'Clock Show on Channel 4 television with Sarah Alexander.

Holmes wrote and appeared in Gash, a nightly politics programme which was broadcast to coincide with the 2003 local elections and presented by Armando Iannucci.

[citation needed] He toured the UK in 2008/2009 reading from his book Rock Star Babylon (for which Stephen Fry voiced the footnotes) and in August 2009 played the Edinburgh Comedy Festival.

[27] In 2021, a number of Rock Star Babylon stories (including Status Quo and the Kangaroo), have been adapted into a radio comedy show called Rockanory.

The series is due to be broadcast by Absolute Radio and will feature the voices of Shaun Keaveny, Jon Culshaw and Jake Yapp.

[citation needed] He has been nominated for two more BAFTAS, a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award and was made a Distinguished Supporter of Humanists UK.