Career
Cornes appeared in three series of Blackadder, in two episodes of The Young Ones and in the television show Bottom, as barman Dick Head. He made an appearance in the first episode of Filthy, Rich & Catflap as a binman. Appeared in the Comic Strip episode "Slags".
Appearances on Saturday Night Live.
He appeared in Red Dwarf as Paranoia in the series one episode "Confidence and Paranoia". He also appeared several times in the British Broadcasting Corporation Scotland sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt, once as a Decision Support System Clerk and again as a barman in a highland public
He appeared in the 2002 South Club Juniors video "One Step Closer." In November 2010 he appeared as Dave in Episode 6 of E4 comedy Phoneshop. He appeared as the Tooting Flasher in Matt Berry"s Toast of London pilot.
Appeared in Hustle. Also appearances in French and Saunders, The Lenny Henry Show, The Detectives, After You"ve Gone, and My Family.
Stage appearances include Ken Campbell"s The Warp at the Liverpool Everyman, several roles at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. Figaro at The Watford Palace Theatre, as well as pantomime roles. Company-writer and performer The WOW Show at the Wyndham"s Theatre.
He toured Britain with Neal from the Young Ones.
Cornes was one of the lead writers for Mr Bean, The Animated Series, and a writer on Cavegirl and Channel 4"s Gophers!. He was a co-writer of Channel 4"s animation series The Bird, and writer/storyliner on What"s Up Doc?, a writer and performer on Thames television"s After Hours and joint writer on two series of The WOW Show on Radio 4.
He has appeared in various children"s television shows such as My Parents are Aliens, Bear Behaving Badly, Jackanory. In a 2010 interview in The Times, Cornes was cited as one of fellow comedian Sean Lock"s biggest comedic influences.
Lock said: "He’s not very well known but he is my main influence — he used to compere at the Comedy Store.
He’s the comedians’ comedian. He used to be very unpredictable, which is a great skill in a comedian, not knowing where to go next. He also used to play the physics teacher in Grange Hill.".
