Jolyon is a BAFTA award-winning co-writer, actor, producer, and director who has made a significant impact in the entertainment industry. His most recent achievement is winning the BROADCAST AWARD 2022 for Best Entertainment Programme, following his previous win of the BROADCAST DIGITAL AWARD 2021 for Best Lockdown Programme in the Comedy, Entertainment & Scripted category for the third series of his hop-hop themed panel show Don't Hate The Playaz.
Don't Hate the Playaz, hosted by Jordan Stephens and featuring Maya Jama, was praised by Digital spy as "instantly everyone's new favourite TV show". Its second series made UK TV history when it featured the first ever all-black, all-female panel. The show was a fresh and exciting addition to the channel, offering something new and different.
Jolyon has had a successful career, with a BAFTA win in 2013 for his BBC3 programme The Revolution Will Be Televised, developed alongside Joe Wade and Heydon Prowse. The Guardian described it as "Sacha Baron Cohen with a bit more substance" and the show went on to record three successful series. This led to the BBC commissioning An Idiot's Guide to Politics, in which Jolyon starred, and the Revolution spin-off Revolution Presents: Democracy Dealers.
In 2017, Jolyon wrote and starred in the BBC2 series Revolting, which was produced by Hat Trick Productions. The show aired on BBC2 and reached an estimated 75M Facebook profiles, with its lead sketch The Real Housewives Of ISIS hitting 30M views and becoming a global news story. The sketch was the 8th most shared in BBC history.
In addition to his work in television, Jolyon has directed a series of stunt-films for Stella McCartney in the world's three fashion capitals; London, New York, and Milan, to promote the banning of selling fur as part of Stella's Autumn '21 range and her "Our Time Has Come" campaign. He has also partnered with the Vaccine Alliance and directed a film to put pressure on world leaders to waive the patent for Vaccine roll out worldwide. Jolyon has also directed a film for Greenpeace to highlight the U.K.'s lack of action on Climate change and produced and directed an animated film for the Humane Society to highlight the lack of focus on mass animal agriculture ahead of COP26.
