Tim Key
Birthday: Born in 1976-09-02 in Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Tim Key (born 2 September 1976) is an English writer, performance poet, comedian and actor. In 2009, he was the winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award and was also nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.
TV Credits
No More Jockeys
Character:
Name a person, and a category they fall under – while avoiding naming people from all previous categories....
We Need Answers
Character: Self - Question Master
We Need Answers is a British television panel game presented by comedians Mark Watson, Tim Key and Alex Horne. The show features a pair of celebrities answering questions which have previously been texted in by the public, or the audience, to 63336, a text message service....
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Character: Self - Guest
Four different celebrities all aim to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith with their baking skills....
The Witchfinder
Character: Gideon Bannister
A failing witchfinder transports a suspected witch across 1640s East Anglia to a trial that could change his fortunes forever....
Playhouse Presents
Character: Jonah
Playhouse Presents is a series of self-contained TV plays, made by British broadcaster Sky Arts. The series started airing on 12 April 2012, on Sky Arts 1. Each episode is written by a different writer and stars a different cast. The four-part adaptation of A Country Doctor's Notebook was also broadcast on the strand in December 2012. Sky Arts have announced that they are ordering a five-part spin-off of the third play, Nixon’s The One. They say the full cast, including Harry Shearer as Nixon ...
Inside No. 9
Character: Ian
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'....
Stag
Character: Aitken
Dark comedy about a group of obnoxious friends who struggle to survive the Stag Weekend from hell, as a deer-stalking expedition in the Scottish Highlands quickly turns messier than expected....
Together
Character: Joseph the Policeman
When Tom and Ellen are together, things seem to work. It's only in the spaces outside the relationship - the intrusions of real life, and the deadly collaboration of parents, siblings, friends and exes - that the flailing attempts to make good first impressions, arrange first dates and hold a relationship together, seem to unravel....
Gap Year
Character: Greg
It’s the story of British lads Dylan and Sean, childhood friends who have drifted apart, who initially set out to backpack through China but end up taking on the whole continent....
The Bubble
Character: Self
The Bubble is news based celebrity panel game show. Three different celebrities are locked away in a media-free zone for four days. When they are released and take part on the show they have to decide which stories that have been in the media are true or have been made up....
Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe
Character: Self
Charlie Brooker and guests cast their collective eyes over all that the telly, cinema, news and computer games have to offer, in order to wring a little laughter from a hilariously troubled world....
Taskmaster
Character: Self
Greg Davies is the Taskmaster, and with the help of his ever-loyal assistant Alex Horne, they will set out to test the wiles, wit, wisdom and skills of five hyper-competitive comedians. Who will be crowned the Taskmaster champion in this brand new game show?...
Pls Like
Character: James Wirm
A mockumentary about a struggling comedian entering an online talent contest to find the next big vlogger....
Taskmaster Bonus Material
Character:
Interviews, outtakes and extra footage from Taskmaster UK...
Saxondale
Character: Promotions Guy
Steve Coogan plays Tommy Saxondale: an ex-roadie with anger management issues and a pest-control business. Tommy is a little arrogant, a little egotistical and feels the world owes him more respect than it typically shows him. He has an assistant named Raymond who lives in a spare room in Tommy's house, a live-in girlfriend named Magz who owns a T-shirt business, and a receptionist named Vicky who has a tendency to drive him up the wall....
Plebs
Character: Mushki
Sitcom about three desperate young men from the suburbs who try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city - which just happens to be ancient Rome....
Cowards
Character:
Four-man sketch show packed with surprise and invention - all delivered with a unique brand of joyful deadpan absurdity....
After Life
Character: Rude Date
Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on....
Trust
Character: Gavin
The trials and triumphs of one of the wealthiest and unhappiest families of the United States, the Gettys. Originally planned to be told over multiple seasons and spanning the twentieth century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty oil fortune, by the Italian mafia in Rome....
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Character: Self
Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and scathing, provocative attacks on the pop industry....
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Character: Self - Dictionary Corner
Jimmy Carr hosts proceedings as the 8 Out of 10 Cats crew take over the words and numbers quiz....
Here We Go
Character: Ray
Family life with no filter. The Jessops navigate life's everyday challenges - from changing jobs to kidnapping dogs....
This Time with Alan Partridge
Character: Simon Denton
Alan is handed a career lifeline - the chance to stand in as co-host on This Time, a weekday magazine show. But can he capitalise on the opportunity?...
Brassic
Character: Vortex
A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in northern suburbia. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, on the brink of adulthood, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way....
Richard Osman's House of Games
Character: Self - Contestant
Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games....
Angelo's
Character: Steve
Angelo's is a sitcom created for Five and Paramount Comedy by Bwark Productions. It follows the ups and downs of everyday life in a central London greasy spoon café....
The Horne Section TV Show
Character: Ken Longlevers
Alex Horne steps out of Greg Davies' shadow as he gets the chance to host his own late-night chat show with his loyal band. But will all go to plan in this mash-up of comedy, celebs, music and mayhem?...
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
Character: Sidekick Simon
Mid Morning Matters is a British mockumentary series written by Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons and Armando Iannucci, produced by Baby Cow Productions and funded by the British arm of Australian lager company Foster's, starring Coogan as fictional radio DJ Alan Partridge. The first of twelve 15-minute episodes was uploaded to the Foster's Funny website on 5 November 2010, and then available on YouTube. Six 30-minute episodes titled Alan Partridge Mid Morning Matters: Special Edition, edi...
Peep Show
Character: Jerry
Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician....
Inside No. 9
Character: Self
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'....
A Young Doctor's Notebook
Character: Pyotr the Patient
A young doctor who has graduated at the top of his class from the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is thrust out into an isolated and impoverished country side as the village's only doctor. As he learns to adapt to his new lifestyle, he develops a morphine addiction to stay his sanity while realizing what being a doctor in the real world means....
Movie Credits
Tree
Character:
In 2013, Daniel Kitson wrote a play for two people (himself and (the mighty) Tim Key) to perform for a week or two at the (also mighty) Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. In 2015 that play was restaged at the (again, mighty) Old Vic in London for something like 28 performances, in total. This is one of those performances, in real time, start to finish....
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Character: Charles
Eccentric lottery winner Charles lives alone on a remote island but dreams of hiring his favourite musician, Herb McGwyer, to play an exclusive, private gig. Unbeknownst to Herb, Charles has also hired Herb’s ex-bandmate and ex-girlfriend, Nell, with her new husband in tow, to perform the old favourites. As tempers flare and old tensions resurface, the stormy weather traps them all on the island and Charles desperately looks for a way to salvage his dream gig....
I Give It a Year
Character: Alan
After a quick courtship, two lovers hastily decide to tie the knot. As their first year of marriage unfolds, temptation and incompatibility put their relationship in jeopardy....
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Character: Sidekick Simon
When famous DJ Alan Partridge’s radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege....
Very Few Fish
Character: Jimbo
A short film. In London, two separate couples go on dates with each other to try and fall in love....
The Overcoat
Character: Narrator
A lonely social outcast gets a glimpse of what life is like for someone popular, and cannot let it go, even in death....
The Double
Character: Care Worker
An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires....
Wicked Little Letters
Character: Father Ambrose
When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate....
The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island
Character: Charles
Lottery winner Charles Heath pays a folk singer Herb McGwyer to visit to his private island and perform for him for a fee of half a million pounds. Isolated from the world, the jaded folk singers' passion for music is slowly reignited....
One Day
Character: Customer
A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together....
I Decided to Leave
Character: Man (voice)
A man decides to leave. He knows he wants to do something with his life. He just hasn't figured out what yet....
Anthony
Character: Santa
Christmas Eve. An enormous explosion tears through Lapland. Santa and his elf, Anthony, have crash-landed in the middle of nowhere on their busiest night....
Regular
Character: Regular
A man in a coffee shop asks the barista if she ever thinks about him....
Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom?
Character: Himself
Documentary looking back at Alan Partridge's journey from broadcaster caricature to the award-winning study of complexity and pathos that he has become....
The Games That Time Forgot: Cricket on Horseback and Other Forgotten Sports
Character: Himself - Rival and Friend
Alex Horne tries to discover why some games survived, and examines the best of those that did not. Whilst revisiting his own childhood haunts, he attempts to relaunch the ancient sport of the Quintain, horseless jousting, and tries his damnedest to understand the rules of the Jingling Match. Not forgetting his attempt to restage the forgotten spectacle of Cricket on Horseback. This might just be a journey to the very heart of sport itself, but if not, it will be a lot of fun playing games that...
Wonderdate
Character: Man
A man dazzles a girl on the perfect first date but why won't she text back? He retraces his steps, reexamining the date....
Love Wedding Repeat
Character: Sidney
While trying to make his sister's wedding day go smoothly, Jack finds himself juggling an angry ex-girlfriend, an uninvited guest with a secret, a misplaced sleep sedative, and the girl that got away in alternate versions of the same day....
Greed
Character: Sam
A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos....
Days of the Bagnold Summer
Character: Dale
Sue works in a library. Daniel eats crisps and listens to Metallica. This was the summer Daniel was due to spend with his father and his father's new wife in Florida. But when they cancel his trip at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together....
The Harry Hill Movie
Character: Toilet Attendant
Harry Hill embarks on a road trip to Blackpool with his Nan when he discovers that his hamster only has one week to live....
Talk Radio
Character: Danny Mallard
Pauline and Barry are a seemingly happily married middled aged couple. That is until Pauline tunes into relationship hour on Talk Radio and thinks she recognises the nameless voice that’s relaying a lifetime of regrets live on the radio....
See How They Run
Character: Commissioner Harrold Scott
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril....
Mickey 17
Character:
Mickey Barnes has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job... to die, for a living....