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Tim was the winner of the 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Award (formerly Perrier) for Best New Show. Nica Burns, producer of the awards, said: “Tim Key is a one-off, an adorably diffident performance poet and stand-up. His charming show is full of surprises. Tim has funny bones and is a star in the making.”

Tim also appeared in Tom Basden's play PARTY at the Edinburgh Festival 2009, which won a Fringe First award. Tim recently reprised his role as Duncan in a production of the play for The Sydney Festival and it had a London run at The Arts Theatre in March this year. It was also adapted into a four-part BBC Radio 4 series. 

Tim co-hosted the second series of WE NEED ANSWERS for BBC4 earlier this year (an anarchic comedy game show, in which celebrity guests attempt to answer questions texted in by the public) along with co-hosts Mark Watson and Alex Horne. He also appeared on Charlie Brooker's BBC4 shows NEWSWIPE & SCREENWIPE and BBC2's THE BUBBLE along with host David Mitchell and guests Katie Brand and Josie Long. He is also writing a feature film for Big Talk and Film Four. 

He recently performed his Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show THE SLUTCRACKER at the Soho Theatre, the Arts Theatre, the Sydney Comedy Festival and Melbourne's International Comedy Festival. This year he will be performing at Kilkenny's Cat Laughs Festival and Montreal's Just For Laughs among others.

Tim is a founder member of group COWARDS who started off life on the London, Edinburgh and regional live comedy circuits. Their BBC4 Series, directed by Steve Bendelack, transmitted last year, shortly after a second radio series for BBC Radio 4.  The series was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA in the category for Best Entertainment Show.

Tim's work for BBC Radio 4 also includes two critically acclaimed series of original comedy ALL BAR LUKE, for which he is writing a third series. Originally conceived as a stage show, the series glimpses into the social life of Luke Walsall, one of those lads who never seems to make it to the front of the pack.

'The writing is terribly acute...the delivery beyond funny'  THE GUARDIAN

Website: www.timkey.co.uk

Latest Publication:

THE INCOMPLETE TIM KEY, Canongate, (4th August 2011):

This is Key's most comprehensive collection of poeticals put together to date. The sheer weight of the book is testament to this comprehensivality. Of course it is lighter than something like a Braun fridge or a fat guy. But as a book, you will note, it's of a nice weight. It's full of poems by Key (award-winning) primarily about love, sex, dreams, death and fruit (strawberries, beans etc). The publishing of the book in no way ties in with things like 'demand' or 'clamour' but is more a result of Key having a full English breakfast with the right person at the right time. Key is not the sort of person to take offence if you don't buy his book but instead replace it on its shelf or lazily slot it between a couple of DBC Pierres or dump it by a pot plant next to the till. Key's just happy that someone has bothered to touch it. That is enough for Key (Newswipe).

Reviews:

'Key locates the spot where poetry, comedy and art intersect, picnics there pleasurably, then takes a crap on it.' --Adam Buxton

'I am jealous of my friend Tim Key. He has one of the funniest, smartest comic minds in the country. If women start finding him attractive I will hang myself.' --Stephen Merchant

'Renders all other poetry collections redundant, which they were anyway.' --Charlie Brooker

Tim is an experienced and talented writer - performer and will soon appear in BBC Two's upcoming series LIFE'S TOO SHORT (written and directed by Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant) and BBC One's ROYAL BODYGUARD, starring David Jason.

He performed multiple roles in JOSEPH K, Tom Basden's adaption of THE TRIAL, for the Gate Theatre late last year and Tim also starred as Sidekick Simon in the ALAN PARTRIDGE'S MORNIING MATTERS online series for Fosters and for a Comic Relief special.

He's currently working on a Radio 4 series, TIM KEY’S SHORT LATE NIGHT POETRY and has just finished performing his show MASTERSLUT at the Pleasance Dome at this years Edinburgh Fringe.

Tim was the winner of the 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Award (formerly Perrier) for Best New Show. Nica Burns, producer of the awards, said: “Tim Key is a one-off, an adorably diffident performance poet and stand-up. His charming show is full of surprises. Tim has funny bones and is a star in the making.”

He also appeared as Duncan in Tom Basden's play PARTY at the Edinburgh Festival 2009, which won a Fringe First award and was also adapted into two four-part BBC Radio 4 series - Series Two aired this summer.

He performed his Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show THE SLUTCRACKER at the Lyric Theatre, the Soho Theatre, the Arts Theatre, the Sydney Comedy Festival and Melbourne's International Comedy Festival. He has also performed at Kilkenny's Cat Laughs Festival and Montreal's Just For Laughs and will play Latitude this summer.

Tim co-hosted two series of WE NEED ANSWERS for BBC4 (an anarchic comedy game show, in which celebrity guests attempt to answer questions texted in by the public) along with co-hosts Mark Watson and Alex Horne. He has also appeared on Charlie Brooker's BBC4 shows NEWSWIPE & SCREENWIPE and in BBC2's THE BUBBLE with host David Mitchell and guests Katie Brand and Josie Long.

Tim is a founder member of group COWARDS who started off life on the London, Edinburgh and regional live comedy circuits. Their BBC4 Series, directed by Steve Bendelack, transmitted last year, shortly after a second radio series for BBC Radio 4.  The series was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA in the category for Best Entertainment Show.

Tim's work for BBC Radio 4 also includes two critically acclaimed series of original comedy ALL BAR LUKE, for which he is writing a third series. Originally conceived as a stage show, the series glimpses into the social life of Luke Walsall, one of those lads who never seems to make it to the front of the pack.

'The writing is terribly acute...the delivery beyond funny'  THE GUARDIAN

Website: www.timkey.co.uk