James Kettle, 24, is commercial writer or as he puts it 'I write junk mail'. A graduate of New College, Oxford, James edited the weekly student newspaper Cherwell while at university. He has written for BBC Radio 2’s Parsons and Naylor’s Pull-Out Sections, and worked for several months as script-editor on the cabaret show Newsrevue.

James was born in Chichester but now lives in London. He has been a stand-up on the London comedy circuit for the past 18 months and has reached the semi-finals of three national competitions - the BBC New Comedy Awards 2005, the Laughing Horse New Act Competition 2006 and So You Think You're Funny 2006.