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Tim Key
Tim Key

Tim Key

  • 48 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer, comedian and poet

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Online comedy festival explores mental health

On 23rd March 2021, the anniversary of the first lockdown, Angel Comedy and Objectively Funny will launch The Best Medicine Festival: A week of events exploring comedy and mental health sponsored by UKTV's award-winning entertainment channel Dave. This momentous programme of events, exploring the relationship between comedy and mental health, will include online workshops, panels and performances.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 11th March 2021

Sunday with Tim Key

'Those comforting evenings in the pub will be back'.

Michael Segalov, The Guardian, 28th February 2021

Leicester Comedy Festival 2021 Awards nominees

The nominees have been announced for the Leicester Comedy Festival Awards 2021. Nominees include Tim Key, Esther Manito, Stuart Laws and Fin Taylor.

British Comedy Guide, 26th February 2021

Review: He Used Thought As A Wife by Tim Key

You never forget your first lockdown. However much you might want to. However, Tim Key's new anthology of poems and conversations cuts through any understandable weariness about having these unusual times reflected directly back at us, as it captures the weirdest early months of the 'pando' in Key's perfectly idiosyncratic way.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 17th February 2021

The lockdown love poems of Tim Key

Like everyone else, Tim Key spent 2020 walking around his flat. Unlike everyone else, he also wrote a book of poetry. He introduces two excerpts.

Tim Key, The Guardian, 13th February 2021

Tim Key on why this year will be great for live comedy

The writer and comedian is here with a massive dose of optimism for you.

Joe Mackertich, Time Out, 12th February 2021

He Used Thought As A Wife, by Tim Key, review

The comedian-poet's hilarious new collection is a portrait of lockdown - and of an artist on the edge.

Jay Richardson, i Newspaper, 11th February 2021

Review: Why you should be catching up with Pls Like

Written by and starring comedian Liam Williams, BBC Three's underrated, brilliantly observed mockumentary Pls Like is now on its third series of lampooning the sort of online culture that's baffling to anyone older than Gen Z.

Sophie Davies, The Custard TV, 1st February 2021

Tim Key review

Key and sidekick Edward Easton deliver a delightful housebound hour of shtick, backchat and verse.

Brian Logan, The Guardian, 1st February 2021

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