Tim Key

Tim Key

Date of birth: 02-09-1976
Tim Key won the 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Award for his show, The Slutcracker, a mix of poetry, unconventional stand-up and film. And in 2012, Masterslut won best show atthe Chortle Awards.

A former member of the Cambridge Footlights, he first came to the Fringe with their 2001 Edinburgh show Far Too Happy, which also starred Mark Watson and was nominated for the Perrier award for best newcomer.

He also featured in Alex Horne's best-newcomer nominated Making Fish Laugh in 2003, and is part of the four-man sketch troupe Cowards. His solo Edinburgh debut came in 2004, with the tragic one-man comedy play Luke & Stella, which was made into a Radio 4 series called All Bar Luke.

His poetry has also feature on Radio 4’s Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better and Charlie Brooker's Newswipe.

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Tim Key's poems become claymations

Three verses brought to life by animator William Child

Animator William Child has set three of Tim Key’s poems to claymation.

The verses Cuppa, Clacker and Nuisance have all been animated, with the comic voicing his own work.

A likeness of Key also features in two of the stop-motion shorts – including an image of himself clutching his Edinburgh Comedy Award in a framed photograph in his grandmother’s home.

They all come from Key’s new book of poetry, Chapters, due to be published by Utter & Press on Sunday.

Speaking to the website It’s Nice That, Child said: ‘Tim’s poems are so rich in absurd, hilarious imagery that it just felt like a really good match to visualise them in my lo-fi, slightly surreal style.

’For me, a big part of the beauty of his work is that the scenarios he creates often have a basis in real life, before rapidly becoming bizarre and quite unhinged.’

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Published: 3 Nov 2023

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Past Shows

Edinburgh Fringe 2001

Far Too Happy


Edinburgh Fringe 2006

Cowards


Edinburgh Fringe 2009

Party

Tim Key: The Slutcracker


Edinburgh Fringe 2010

Tim Key: The Slutcracker [2010]


Edinburgh Fringe 2011

Tim Key: Masterslut


Edinburgh Fringe 2014

Tim Key: Single White Slut


Edinburgh Fringe 2015

Tim Key: Work-in-Slutgress


Edinburgh Fringe 2017

Tim Key: Work in Progress


Edinburgh Fringe 2018

Tim Key: Megadate


Edinburgh Fringe 2019

Tim Key


Edinburgh Fringe 2022

Tim Key: Mulberry

Tim Key: Mulberry


Theatre

Tree


Agent

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