Thomson was born in 1969 in Walkden, Worsley, Lancashire, to Mary McAleer, who gave him up for adoption six weeks later. He was adopted from the Catholic Children's Rescue Society by Andrew and Marita Tho… See more

While at university, Thomson met Steve Coogan, who secured him a job on Spitting Image. They continued to collaborate on such programmes as The Dead Good Show, a 1993 Granada TV pilot also starring Caroline A… See more