John David Finnemore was born on 28 September 1977 and is a British comedy writer and actor.
14 Facts About John Finnemore
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John Finnemore is the writer of season 2 of Good Omens.
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John Finnemore was born in Reading to parents David and Patricia and has a younger sister, Anna.
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John Finnemore then studied English at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he wrote his dissertation on Thomas Hardy and graduated in 2000.
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John Finnemore was a member of the Cambridge Footlights, becoming vice-president in his final year.
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John Finnemore wrote a radio sketch show, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, which he performed with Simon Kane, Carrie Quinlan, Lawry Lewin and Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
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John Finnemore has written extensively for other comedy shows, both on radio and TV, including That Mitchell and Webb Sound, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Dead Ringers, Tittybangbang, Safety Catch, The Now Show and The Unbelievable Truth.
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John Finnemore has been credited as programme associate on 10 O'Clock Live and Was it Something I Said.
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In September 2011, John Finnemore wrote a pilot episode for BBC One called George and Bernard Shaw, a sitcom starring Robert Lindsay and Richard Griffiths as an elderly gay couple.
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John Finnemore has appeared on various BBC Radio 4 shows, including The Now Show, The Unbelievable Truth, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, Just a Minute, and The News Quiz and is a regular performer at the bi-monthly Tall Tales storytelling shows held in North London.
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In 2023, John Finnemore revealed he was writing a sequel to the puzzle, to be published by Unbound in 2024.
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John Finnemore was a co-writer, with Neil Gaiman, of the second series of Good Omens, which starred Michael Sheen and David Tennant.
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John Finnemore featured as Paul, a Space Shuttle pilot in Armando Iannucci's American space comedy Avenue 5, for which he has written teleplays for several episodes.
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John Finnemore has written for other shows that have won Comedy.