Marc Haynes
Marc Haynes (born 5 April 1976) is an English comedy writer, radio broadcaster and podcaster from London. He won the 1998 Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award for stand-up, with finalists including Stephen Merchant and Dan Antopolski. From 2004 to 2007 he worked with Richard Bacon on XFM and Capital Radio, then with Alex Zane on XFM’s breakfast show (2007–2008) before starting a weekly show and podcast called Certificate X. Since 2010 he has hosted regular shows on BBC 6 Music with Bacon.
Haynes is a regular writer for ITV’s Celebrity Juice and Richard Bacon’s Beer and Pizza Club. His radio credits include two series of Clement Doesn’t Live Here Anymore on BBC Radio 4 and a co-written one-off for BBC Radio 4 with Danny Wallace called New World Order. In November 2008, his piece Fifty Years Of Popular Song Condensed Into A Single Sentence was published by McSweeney’s.
He co-hosts the WrestleMe podcast with Pete Donaldson, discussing WrestleMania and wrestling history. The show blends Haynes’s lifelong wrestling enthusiasm with Donaldson’s beginner’s perspective. A live version premiered in September 2018, and a Patreon launched in March 2020 offering bonus episodes about historic WCW pay-per-views and notable WWE moments. GQ described WrestleMe as enrapturing and entertaining.
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