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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The Paper gets a second edition

The Office spin-off renewed for season 2 before the first drops

The Paper – the new mockumentary spin-off from The Office – has been renewed for a second series the day before its first drops in the US.

Show stars Domhnall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore revealed the news on NBC’s Today this morning. 

The comedy features the same documentary crew that followed Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch taking on a new project, tracking historic Midwestern newspaper and the publisher trying to revive it.

Its cast also include Tim Key, Black Ops’ Gbemisola Ikumelo and stand-up Alex Edelman – as well as Oscar Nuñez  reprising his role as accountant Oscar Martínez from The Office.

All 10 episodes of the series’ first season will be released tomorrow, on Peacock in the US, then comes to Sky and Now TV in Britain on Friday.

The Office developer Greg Daniels is co-creator, and co-showrunner of The Paper with Michael Koman. And as originators of the original Office, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are credited as executive producers on The Paper, too.

Also in the cast are  Chelsea Frei, Melvin Gregg and  Ramona Young.

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Published: 3 Sep 2025

Tim Key does Art

Tim Key is to appear in the new London production of…
30/09/2016

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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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