1. Timothy Key was born on 2 September 1976 and is an English poet, comedian, actor and screenwriter.
22 Facts About Tim Key
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Tim Key has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, both as a solo act and as part of the comedy group Cowards, and plays Alan Partridge's sidekick Simon in film and television.
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Tim Key grew up in Impington, Cambridgeshire, was educated at Impington Village College before moving on to Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge and then the University of Sheffield, where he studied Russian.
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Tim Key has regularly attended Edinburgh ever since, performing in solo shows and collaborations.
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Tim Key took the show to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival the following year.
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Tim Key co-starred in Daniel Kitson's play Tree when it premiered in September 2013 at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.
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Tim Key appeared alongside Paul Ritter and Rufus Sewell in Yasmina Reza's Art at The Old Vic, directed by Matthew Warchus, from December 2016 to February 2017.
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In 2023, Tim Key toured his sell-out show Mulberry around the UK and Ireland, as well as a run at the SoHo Playhouse in New York City.
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In 2010, Tim Key was heard as Duncan in the radio sitcom Party, created by Tom Basden and based on the stage show of the same name.
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Tim Key was a contestant on the first series of Britain's Worst Driver and received a car but sold it after a week.
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Tim Key appeared in an episode of Saxondale alongside future Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge co-star Steve Coogan.
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In 2009, Tim Key co-created We Need Answers for BBC Four, a comedic quiz show in which celebrities answer questions posed by question-answering text services.
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In November 2010, Tim Key appeared as "Sidekick Simon" alongside Steve Coogan on Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge, an online series based on Coogan's Alan Partridge character.
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In 2013, Tim Key played Greg in the E4 comedy-drama series Gap Year.
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Tim Key's performance was praised, with one journalist calling him "an unsung hero of British comedy".
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Tim Key has appeared on panel shows Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Richard Osman's House of Games.
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In 2022, Tim Key starred in the BBC Two comedy series The Witchfinder.
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In 2012, Key collaborated with director J van Tulleken on one of 16 short films to have won production funding through BFI Shorts.
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Tim Key reprised his role as Sidekick Simon for Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge film Alpha Papa, released in August 2013.
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The third, The Incomplete Tim Key, was published by Canongate Books in 2011.
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In 2020, Tim Key collaborated with designer Emily Juniper to create He Used Thought As a Wife.
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Tim Key released a new poetry anthology, "Chapters", in February 2024.