Jonathan Pie

Jonathan Pie is a character played by English actor and comedian Tom Walker (born: ), who, since the character debuted in 2015, has become popular across social media for his rants against various political figures from all across the political spectrum.
==Creating the character==
Having graduated from drama school in 2000 Walker found work, in his own words, as a jobbing actor who would have busy years and not busy years. During one of the aforementioned not busy years, he found himself being annoyed by how the British media pounded on the newly-elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and telling what he describes as "blatant fucking lies", he decided that, having had the character of Jonathan Pie in his head for some time, he would use the amount of free time he had to do something about it. As, by Walker's own admission, he has limited skills as a cameraman or an editor, he needed something he could perform in one take which would also allow a quick turnaround between filming the the video being uploaded.
Jonathan Pie grew in popularity very quickly, with Walker soon approached by several media companies, eventually signing a deal with RT (formerly Russia Today) which gave him complete artistic control of his videos while also improving the quality of his videos with the improved camera and sound equipment RT provided, until Walker left the network prior to Pie's first appearance at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival, saying in an interview with The Guardian that the reason he left RT was so the character would be able to move forward.
As the character began to grow in visibility across social media, there were some people who didn't realise that Pie was a work of satire and genuinely believed that what they were watching was genuine, most notably when American conservative news blog PJ Media mistakenly identified Pie as a British journalist addressing "his fellow leftists."
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