English comedian (born 1967)
Tim Vine
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Vine performing in June 2010
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Born
| Timothy Mark Vine
(
1967-03-04
)
4 March 1967
(age 57)
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Occupation(s)
| Comedian, actor, writer, presenter
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Years active
| 1994?present
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Known for
| One-liners
,
deadpan humour
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Relatives
| Jeremy Vine
(brother)
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Website
| timvine
.com
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Timothy Mark Vine
(born 4 March 1967) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and presenter best known for his
one-liners
and his role on the
sitcom
Not Going Out
(2006?2014). He has released a number of stand-up comedy specials and has written several joke books.
From 2004 to 2014, Vine held the
Guinness World Record
for the most jokes told in an hour; each joke had to get a laugh from the audience to count towards the total, and he set the new record with 499 jokes. In both 2010 and 2014, he won the award for
best joke
at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
and was the runner-up for the three years in between.
[1]
Early life
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]
Timothy Mark Vine was born in the
Cheam
suburb of London on 4 March 1967,
[2]
the son of Diana (nee Tillett), a housewife and occasional doctor's receptionist, and Guy Vine (died 2018),
[3]
a lecturer in civil engineering at
North East Surrey College of Technology
.
[4]
[5]
He is the younger brother of broadcaster
Jeremy Vine
and the older brother of artist Sonya Vine.
[4]
He was educated in
Surrey
, attending Lynton Prep in
Ewell
,
Aberdour School
in
Burgh Heath
, and
Epsom College
in
Epsom
.
[4]
Career
[
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]
Stand-up
[
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]
Vine's
stand-up
act consists primarily of a series of quick-fire
one-liners
and
puns
, along with silly songs and a bagful of props.
Vine and a security guard from his office job in Croydon started doing open mic nights as a hobby.
During 1991, Tim Vine regularly honed his routine at the Comedy Cafe in London, adding other clubs throughout 1992. He came second in the Hackney Empire New Act competition in 1993. Vine quit his job to go on tour as a support act for
Boothby Graffoe
, who later wrote additional material for
The Sketch Show
. Vine became a regular on the London comedy circuit by 1994, trying a variety of comedy styles. He realised one-liners were a good way forward after the audience's positive reaction to his joke: "So I went to the doctors. He said, 'You've got hypochondria'. I said, 'Not that as well!
'
" Vine built up this repertoire, before making his first TV appearance on
BBC1
's
Pebble Mill
.
[6]
In 1996, Vine met
Lee Mack
at the Comedy Lounge in Kingston-Upon-Hull. Mack was competing in The Gong Show, where up to ten comedians try to last for a full five minute slot, hoping to beat the Gong and not get voted off by the public. Mack inadvertently did a couple of Vine's jokes, to which the audience shouted "Tim Vine". When Mack came off stage, he asked a man who Tim Vine was, and got the reply "He plays here quite a bit." The man he had asked was Tim Vine.
[7]
The pair later worked together on
The Sketch Show
,
Not Going Out
and
Let's Play Darts
for
Comic Relief
.
The comedian has regularly appeared at the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
, with shows such as
The Tim Vine Shambles
and
The Tim Vine Fiasco
(1995) - which won him the Perrier Newcomer Award - then
Tim Vine Flat Out
(1998),
I'm Vine Thanks
and
Tim Vine and the Minotaur
(1999). In
2006
, he had a large advertising hoarding erected featuring his name and image, with a small sub-heading "...is not appearing at this year's Edinburgh Festival."
[8]
Vine appeared at the
Pleasance Courtyard
for the first two weeks of the 2008
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
performing a show entitled
Punslinger
.
He appeared at the Christian festival,
Spring Harvest
, in 2007, 2008 and 2013 alongside
John Archer
at
Skegness
and
Minehead
, and at the
Cambridge Theatre
in May 2007 for a show entitled
Tim Vine, Live in Concrete
.
Vine's UK comedy tours include
Current Puns
(2006) and
Punslinger
(2008). In July 2008, he recorded a performance at the
Bloomsbury Theatre
in London, which was released as a new DVD entitled
So I Said To This Bloke...
on 27 October 2008. His third tour,
The Joke-amotive
, took place during February and March 2010, with a DVD of the show released in November 2011. Vine's
Tim Timinee Tim Timinee Tim Tim to You
tour recording was released in 2016, followed by
Sunset Milk Idiot
(2019). Vine's support act is usually
Britain's Got Talent
's comedy magician
John Archer
.
In a
BBC Radio Wales
interview with
Behnaz Akhgar
(12 October 2021), Vine revealed that he had intended to perform a new stand-up show at the 2020
Edinburgh Fringe
but
Breeeep!
was delayed until 2022 due to the
covid pandemic
.
[9]
Vine released a CD entitled Tim Vine Edinburgh Festival Diary, recorded each day at the Fringe.
[10]
The
Breeeep!
tour (2023) sold out at many venues,
[11]
despite covid, the financial crisis and rail strikes. However, September 21's show was relocated after the original venue cancelled due to the RAAC concrete crisis.
https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2023/09/04/54089/comedy_shows_cancelled_amid_concrete_crisis
Many of Vine's jokes have been falsely attributed to
Tommy Cooper
, being in Cooper's style;
[12]
the
West End
show about Cooper actually features some of Vine's jokes.
[
citation needed
]
Panto
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]
- 2005/2006 - Dandini in
Cinderella
(
New Wimbledon Theatre
) with
Susan Hampshire
,
Richard Wilson
,
Naomi Wilkinson
,
John Barrowman
,
Peter Duncan
.
- 2006/2007 - Silly Billy in
Jack and the Beanstalk
(
Richmond Theatre
) with
John Challis
,
Sue Holderness
,
Aled Jones
.
- 2009/2010 - Muddles in
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(Richmond Theatre).
- 2010/2011 - Jangles in
Sleeping Beauty
(Richmond Theatre) with
Anita Dobson
replacing
Brian Blessed
who was unwell.
- 2012/2013 - Wishee Washee in
Aladdin
(Richmond Theatre).
[13]
- 2014/2015 -
Buttons
in
Cinderella
(
New Wimbledon Theatre
) with
Linda Gray
,
Matthew Kelly
,
Wayne Sleep
.
- 2016/2017 - Idle Jack in
Dick Whittington
(
New Wimbledon Theatre
) with
Matthew Kelly
,
Arlene Phillips
.
- 2019/2020 -
Buttons
in
Cinderella
(Fairfield Halls, Croydon) with
Ore Oduba
,
Cat Sandion
.
Music
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Vine's musical talents, aside from the comedy songs in his act, include playing the guitar, bass, piano and drums.
He occasionally plays the drums at his church. He was in several bands, including alongside his brother
Jeremy
in The Flared Generation, which
Smash Hits
magazine described as "the most unfashionable punk band in the country.
[14]
Vine has released three novelty music albums,
Pretend Popstar - Fake Hits
,
Dance Floor Gridlock
and
Angus Crunch and the Nepali Flautist
.
[15]
Vine is a huge
Elvis Presley
fan, and has been since Elvis died in 1977; he has a picture of the rock and roll legend in every room at home.
[16]
The megastar was Vine’s Specialist Subject on
Celebrity Mastermind
and his inspiration for performing to "
Viva Las Vegas
" on
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
. In August 2019, Vine’s
Plastic Elvis
tribute act was a sell-out at the Edinburgh Fringe. On 6 January 2020, Plastic Elvis was the Dictionary Corner Guest on
Countdown
,
[17]
plugging the 2020 UK tour, which was later postponed due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
and rescheduled for autumn 2021 through spring 2022. Although promotional material states "This is NOT a stand up comedy show", Vine's regular support act comic/magician
John Archer
plays Big
Buddy Holly
. David Martin, who wrote four of the show's Elvis numbers,
[18]
sings a duet with Plastic. Music is performed by The High Noon Band (UK) with backing vocals by Josie Quinn Abraham.
In May 2020, when the
Eurovision Song Contest
was cancelled due to the
covid pandemic
, Vine competed in the
Isolation Song Contest
representing
Romania
with his home-filmed, self-composed entry "Room Mania".
John Archer
also made several appearances in shots from his own house.
[19]
The event raised around £40,000 for the homeless charity
Crisis
,
Refuge
(which supports female domestic abuse survivors) and
The Trussell Trust
food banks.
Podcasts and YouTube
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In December 2007, Vine launched his first
podcast
, 'Tim Vine Celebrates'.
[20]
The first episode "Tim Vine Celebrates... Christmas" was released for free on 19 December and includes many previously unheard jokes and humorous songs, as well as an array of comedy characters, mostly voiced by himself.
In autumn 2019, Vine premiered his YouTube channel
Tim Vine TeleVisual (TVTV)
, releasing a short video of sketches every Monday evening for over a year. Additional videos include
Recreating
Columbo
, predominantly filmed in Vine's home during the
pandemic
. Vine reprised his Columbo on Countdown, dressing as and impersonating the dishevelled detective in his guest spot (3 February 2022). Further instalments, based on season one, form part of Vine's YouTube channel content for 2022.
Similarly, Vine also contributed scenes to the 2020 international project
Jaws We Make
, along with over 100 other superfans of
Jaws
. The entire movie was recreated using a variety of amateur/professional production methods and released on YouTube to celebrate the blockbuster's 45th anniversary. The previous year,
Jaws
was Vine's Specialist Subject on his second
Celebrity Mastermind
appearance.
Television
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Tim Vine's first TV appearance was on
BBC1
's
Pebble Mill
in 1994.
In autumn 1995, Vine hosted BBC1 morning quiz
Housemates
, featuring an endgame called
Up The Garden Path
. The show ran for one season of 25 episodes.
Vine was the first man to appear on
Channel 5
, alongside
Julia Bradbury
and the
Spice Girls
, when the network launched on 30 March 1997. The following day, game show
Whittle
premiered with Vine as host for two seasons March?June and September?December.
From May to August 1997, Vine presented the
Channel 4
game show
Fluke
which he devised.
[21]
The warm-up comedian was
Lee Mack
.
Tim hosted
Fort Boyard Takes on the World
in 2004.
From 2001 to 2004, Vine co-wrote/starred in both series of ITV's
The Sketch Show
with
Lee Mack
. Additional material was written by Vine's good friend and tour support act,
John Archer
and, on occasion,
Boothby Graffoe
and Tim's sister Sonya Vine.
From 2006 to 2012, Vine played Timothy Gladstone Adams in Lee Mack's
BBC One
sitcom
Not Going Out
. He returned for a cameo in the Christmas 2014 episode and the series 7 finale as Lee's
best man
.
Since 2009, Vine has made appearances on
Countdown
as a guest in Dictionary Corner.
[22]
[23]
In 2012, Vine hosted one series of teatime game show
Don't Blow the Inheritance
for
ITV
.
Vine faced "The Beast"
Mark Labbett
on
The Chase
in 2012 and 2021 (series 11, episode 10).
Replacing
Mark Williams
, Vine portrayed
Sebastian Beach
in the second and final season of BBC One's comedy
Blandings
(2013-2014), based on the books by
P. G. Wodehouse
.
In 2014 and 2015, Vine appeared in the revival of
Celebrity Squares
as resident comedian alongside
Joe Wilkinson
.
[24]
In 2017, he appeared in two episodes of
Tim Vine Travels Through Time
on BBC One. Regular cast members included
Sally Phillips
,
Mandeep Dhillon
,
Marek Larwood
and
John Archer
. Special guests included
Emma Bunton
and
Ore Oduba
, the latter starring with Vine in the 2019/2020
Cinderella
panto at Fairfield Halls, Croydon.
In mid 2018, Vine was a celebrity contestant in 10 episodes of
Taskmaster
series 6, on
Dave
. His improvisations included measuring a piece of string with a plastic lobster.
In autumn 2018, Vine hosted
ITV
quiz show
Football Genius
.
Tim Vine has participated in several
Comic Relief
/
Sport Relief
charity competitions. In
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
Vine performed his pop hero
Elvis Presley
’s hit "
Viva Las Vegas
" (2007) and on
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
(2013), Vine was talked out of
Elvis
and given
Justin Timberlake
’s "
Rock Your Body
", making it to the final. In 2015, he was runner-up in
Let's Play Darts
, losing out to
Lee Mack
. Vine returned in 2016 to win it, beating
Mike Tindall
in the final. For the 2021 telethon, Vine's contribution was
Joke In A Box
, entertaining military personnel who had assisted medical centres during the
COVID-19 pandemic
. For 2022, Vine competed against
Kiri Pritchard-McLean
in
One Red Nose and Their Dog
with training shown on
Countryfile
(6 March) and the finale broadcast on Comic Relief night (18 March). Filmed at
Penrhyn Castle
,
Wales
, this is a variation on the long-running televised competition
One Man and His Dog
.
Radio and audiobooks
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]
BBC Radio 4
airs
The Tim Vine Chat Show
, where members of the audience are interviewed, having filled in a form before the show if they wish to be considered for selection. Vine presented one series of four episodes in July 2016,
[25]
and a Christmas edition on 26 December 2016.
[26]
A second series of six episodes was broadcast in September and October 2017. Additional Festive and Summer specials aired in 2018 and 2019. The series and specials are available on
BBC Sounds
and via audiobook (released April 2020).
The Tim Vine Christmas Chat Show
2021 was recorded on 30 November at
The CryerArts Centre
, airing 23 December.
In 2017,
Tim Vine Travels Through Time
was broadcast on
BBC Radio 2
, before moving to
BBC One
for two televised episodes.
Vine's
Punslinger
audiobook is slightly shorter than the DVD version, as some of the visual jokes are omitted.
Books
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In 2003, Vine contributed to the
Sit-Down Comedy
book, but his first book was released in 2010 entitled
The Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book
containing over 1,000 jokes and puns. Then, in 2011, Vine released a second joke book entitled
The Not Quite Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book
, specifically for children.
- 2010 -
The Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book
- 2011 -
The (Not Quite) Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book: Children's Edition
- 2013 -
The Tim Vine Bumper Book of Silliness: Daft Jokes, Crazy Pictures, Utter Nonsense
Awards
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]
BAFTA
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]
Vine's ensemble series
The Sketch Show
won the
BAFTA
for
Best Comedy Programme
in 2002.
Fringe awards
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]
In August 2010, Vine won the prize for the
funniest joke of that year's Edinburgh Fringe
, following a public vote from a judged shortlist. His winning joke was "I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again."
[27]
On 25 August 2011, Vine won the prize for the second funniest joke at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. His joke was "Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels." He was beaten by
Nick Helm
.
[28]
In 2012 Vine again came second with the joke "Last night me and my girlfriend watched three DVDs back to back. Luckily I was the one facing the telly." He was beaten by
Stewart Francis
.
[29]
In 2013 Vine came fourth with the joke "My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him 'Don't be Sicily'." The winner was
Rob Auton
.
[30]
Vine won the award for the second time in 2014 with the joke "I decided to sell my Hoover... well it was just collecting dust."
[31]
World record
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]
On 7 October 2004, Vine broke the
Guinness World Record
for the most jokes told in an hour with 499, beating the previous record of 362 by Estonian Erkki Kolu. Each joke had to get a laugh from the paying audience to count towards the total. The record was subsequently broken on two occasions by Anthony Lehmann and Korukonda Ranga Rao, but Guinness later decided both performers had breached guidelines by using cue cards, so Vine was reinstated.
[32]
He held the record until November 2014, when Australian comedian Taylor Goodwin, inspired by Vine, told 550 jokes.
[33]
Personal life
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]
Vine lives in
Banstead, Surrey
.
[34]
He is a practising
Anglican
,
[35]
[36]
and has performed at
Spring Harvest
Christian festivals.
[37]
Vine is a supporter of football team
Sutton United FC
, stating that the first of the team's games he attended was an
FA Cup
match against
Middlesbrough FC
during the 1987?88 season.
[38]
He is also a keen
darts
fan, having attended several
Professional Darts Corporation
tournaments along with
Lee Mack
. Some of these were televised, such as the 2011 World Championships when both Vine and Mack appeared in the crowd. He also plays darts in his spare time.
[39]
On 31 December 2020, during a live
Twitter
broadcast, Vine scored 170 in darts in front of a large online audience.
Filmography
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Television
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]
Guest appearances
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]
Title
|
Role
|
Notes
|
Pebble Mill
|
Guest Comedian
|
1994
|
Call My Bluff
|
Panellist
|
1996
|
Saturday Live
|
Guest Comedian
|
1996
|
Noel's Telly Years
|
Guest
|
17 January 1997
|
Fort Boyard
|
Contestant
|
2003
|
Spelling Bee
|
Contestant
|
14 July 2005
|
Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
|
Contestant
|
11 September 2007 -
Jeremy Vine
, 9 December 2012 -
Cheryl Fergison
|
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
|
Contestant
|
3 March 2007 ? 15 March 2007
|
Celebrity Juice
|
Panellist
|
15 October 2008
|
Celebrity Mastermind
|
Contestant
|
1 January 2009 (
Elvis Presley
), 27 December 2019 (
Jaws
)
|
Countdown
|
Dictionary Corner
|
Various dates 2009?2012, 2014?2016, 2019?2020, 1-7 Feb 2022
[42]
|
Neighbours
|
Guest appearance
|
28 July 2009 - Episode 5742
|
Live at the Apollo
|
Himself
|
18 December 2009
|
Celebrity Total Wipeout
|
Contestant
|
26 December 2009
|
Spicks and Specks
|
Self
|
8 September 2010
|
Question of Sport
|
Contestant
|
7 Feb 2011 (S40E11),
21 Sep 2016 (S46E05),
25 March 2022 (S51E25)
|
Dave's One Night Stand
|
Headline act
[43]
|
24 November 2011
|
Argumental
|
Guest
|
15 December 2011
|
The Chase: Celebrity Special
|
Contestant
|
7 October 2012, 12 December 2021 (S11E10)
|
Pointless Celebrities
|
Contestant
|
1 Dec 2012 -
Karen Taylor
, 3 Sep 2016 -
Terry Alderton
, 3 Mar 2019 -
Esther Rantzen
, 30 Oct 2021 -
Nina Conti
.
|
QI
|
Panellist
|
11 January 2013
|
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
|
Contestant
|
16 February, 9 March 2013
|
Alexander Armstrong's Big Ask
|
Guest
|
26 February 2013
|
What's Cooking?
|
Guest
|
4 March 2013
|
Draw It!
|
Contestant
[44]
|
26?30 May 2014
|
Celebrity Fifteen to One
|
Contestant
[45]
|
20 June 2014
|
Catchphrase: Celebrity Special
|
Contestant
[46]
|
22 June 2014, 10 October 2020
|
Gadget Man
|
Guest
|
25 August 2014
|
Stars at Your Service
|
Guest participant
|
11 October 2014
|
Weekend at Christmas
|
Guest
[47]
|
25 December 2014
|
Let's Play Darts
|
Contestant
|
3, 6 & 8 March 2015 / 28 February, 6 & 13 March 2016
|
Tipping Point: Lucky Stars
|
Contestant
|
29 October 2016 & 26 August 2023
|
Debatable
|
Panelist
|
(Series 2) 8 & 17 April & 2 May 2017
|
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
|
Contestant
|
12 December 2017
|
Taskmaster
|
Contestant
|
(Series 6) 2 May 2018 ? 4 July 2018
|
Richard Osman's House of Games
|
Contestant
|
(Series 3, Week 16) 10?14 February 2020
|
Good Morning Britain
|
Guest
|
7 October 2021 (as Plastic Elvis), 25 December 2021
|
Countryfile
/
Comic Relief
:
One Red Nose and Their Dog
|
Contestant
|
6 & 18 March 2022
|
Gogglebox
:
Gogglebox for Stand Up To Cancer
|
Participant
|
3 November 2023
|
In quiz show celebrity specials, Vine often plays for
Cure Parkinson's
, because of his father, Guy Vine, who died with the illness in August 2018.
Stand-up DVDs
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]
- Live
(29 November 2004)
- Live ? So I Said To This Bloke...
(27 October 2008)
- Punslinger Live
(22 November 2010)
- The Joke-a-motive Live
(21 November 2011)
- Tim Timinee Tim Timinee Tim Tim to You
(28 November 2016)
[48]
- Sunset Milk Idiot Live
(25 November 2019)
Feature-length films
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]
Vine has made two films, though these have not yet been widely released ?
Library Altitude Zero
[49]
[50]
and
FearMoth
.
[51]
[52]
The latter was shown at the Brighton film festival in 2017.
[53]
FearMoth
was added to the
Tim Vine Televisual
YouTube channel on 14 April 2020, during the UK's first Covid lockdown, around the time Vine's
Plastic Elvis
tribute would have toured.
References
[
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]
- ^
"Tim Vine wins funniest Edinburgh Fringe joke award"
.
BBC News
. 19 August 2014
. Retrieved
29 October
2016
.
- ^
Lobb, Adrian (5 September 2014).
"Tim Vine interview: "My mind is always quietly on the lookout for jokes"
"
.
The Big Issue
. Retrieved
23 December
2016
.
- ^
"Jeremy Vine remembers 'wonderful' father ahead of funeral"
.
Shropshire Star
. 12 September 2018
. Retrieved
22 January
2020
.
- ^
a
b
c
Hassell, Katherine (11 September 2015).
"Jeremy Vine: my family values"
.
Theguardian.com
. Retrieved
23 January
2019
.
- ^
"Family detective: Jeremy Vine"
.
The Daily Telegraph
. 7 December 2007. Archived from
the original
on 28 May 2010.
- ^
"Tim Vine Biography"
.
- ^
"Tim Vine Plastic Elvis Not Going Out interview"
.
YouTube
.
Archived
from the original on 22 December 2021.
- ^
"The best place...to get punned down"
.
Metro
. 4 September 2008
. Retrieved
15 May
2009
.
- ^
"Behnaz Akhgar"
.
www.bbc.co.uk
.
BBC
. 12 October 2021. Archived from
the original
on 22 October 2021
. Retrieved
17 May
2023
.
Comedian Tim Vine talks to Behnaz Akhgar about his Plastic Elvis Tour.
- ^
"Edinburgh Festival Diary (CD)"
.
www.timvine.com
.
Archived
from the original on 17 May 2023
. Retrieved
4 June
2023
.
- ^
"Tour Dates"
.
www.timvine.com
.
Archived
from the original on 19 April 2023
. Retrieved
4 June
2023
.
- ^
Hall, Julian (8 March 2005).
"Tim Vine: Down the barrel of a pun"
.
The Independent
.
Archived
from the original on 7 May 2022.
- ^
Richmond Theatre.
"Aladdin Richmond Tickets ? Richmond Theatre Pantomime 2012 Tickets"
.
Atgtickets.com
. Retrieved
12 August
2014
.
- ^
"Jeremy and Tim Vine's pop-punk past revealed"
.
Your Local Guardian
. 5 July 2012
. Retrieved
23 January
2019
.
- ^
"Tim Vine Oddities Store"
.
- ^
"Stand-up puts on blue suede shoes"
.
- ^
"Episode 7234 - Countdown"
.
- ^
"Plastic Elvis 2021/22 Rescheduled UK Tour Dates"
. 8 February 2021.
- ^
"Tim Vine - Isolation Song Contest entry for Romania #VoteROU"
.
YouTube
.
Archived
from the original on 22 December 2021.
- ^
"Tim Vine Celebrates"
.
iTunes
. Retrieved
27 July
2009
.
[
permanent dead link
]
- ^
"Fluke"
.
UKGameshows
. Retrieved
12 August
2014
.
- ^
"Tim Vine - Countdown"
.
- ^
"All 4 - TV Guide"
.
www.channel4.com
. Retrieved
12 April
2019
.
- ^
"Celebrity Squares ? resident comedians announced"
.
ITV.com
. 28 May 2014
. Retrieved
12 August
2014
.
- ^
"Series 1, The Tim Vine Chat Show"
.
BBC Radio 4
. Retrieved
23 December
2016
.
- ^
"BBC Radio 4 - The Tim Vine Chat Show, The Tim Vine Christmas Chat Show"
.
BBC
. Retrieved
23 January
2019
.
- ^
"BBC News ? Fringe's funniest joke prize awarded to Tim Vine"
.
BBC News
. 23 August 2010
. Retrieved
23 August
2010
.
- ^
"Nick Helm's password joke is Edinburgh Fringe funniest"
.
BBC News
. 25 August 2011
. Retrieved
23 December
2016
.
- ^
Handley, Emily (21 August 2012).
"Edinburgh Festival 2012: ten funniest jokes at this year's Edinburgh Fringe revealed"
.
The Daily Telegraph
. Retrieved
23 December
2016
.
- ^
"Funniest joke of 2013 Edinburgh Fringe"
.
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- 1981:
Cambridge Footlights
(
Stephen Fry
,
Hugh Laurie
,
Tony Slattery
,
Emma Thompson
,
Penny Dwyer
and Paul Shearer)
- 1982:
Writer's Inc
(Gary Adams,
Steve Brown
,
Vicki Pile
, Trevor McCallum, Helen Murry,
Jamie Rix
, and
Nick Wilton
, with additional material by
Kim Fuller
)
- 1983:
Los Trios Ringbarkus
- 1984:
The Brass Band
- 1985:
Theatre de Complicite
- 1986:
Ben Keaton
- 1987:
Brown Blues...
(
Arnold Brown
with
Barb Jungr
and Michael Parker)
- 1988:
Jeremy Hardy
- 1989:
Simon Fanshawe
- 1990:
Sean Hughes
?
A One Night Stand
- 1991:
Frank Skinner
- 1992:
Steve Coogan
?
In Character with
John Thomson
- 1993:
Lee Evans
- 1994:
Lano and Woodley
- 1995:
Jenny Eclair
?
Prozac & Tantrums
- 1996:
Dylan Moran
?
Dylan Moran Is Indisposed
- 1997:
The League of Gentlemen
- 1998:
Tommy Tiernan
?
Undivine Comedy
- 1999:
Al Murray
as The Pub Landlord ?
And a Glass of White Wine for the Lady
- 2000:
Rich Hall
?
Otis Lee Crenshaw
- 2001:
Garth Marenghi's Netherhead
(
Matthew Holness
,
Richard Ayoade
and
Alice Lowe
)
- 2002:
Daniel Kitson
?
Something
- 2003:
Demetri Martin
?
If I...
- 2004:
Will Adamsdale
?
Jackson's Way
- 2005:
Laura Solon
?
Kopfraper's Syndrome
- 2006:
Phil Nichol
?
The Naked Racist
- 2007:
Brendon Burns
?
So I Suppose THIS Is Offensive Now
- 2008:
David O'Doherty
?
Let's Comedy
- 2009:
Tim Key
?
The Slutcracker
- 2010:
Russell Kane
?
Smokescreens and Castles
- 2011:
Adam Riches
?
Bring Me the Head of Adam Riches
- 2012:
Doctor Brown
?
Befrdfgth
- 2013:
Bridget Christie
?
A Bic for Her
- 2014:
John Kearns
?
Shtick
- 2015:
Sam Simmons
?
Spaghetti for Breakfast
- 2016:
Richard Gadd
?
Monkey See Monkey Do
- 2017:
Hannah Gadsby
?
Nanette
&
John Robins
?
The Darkness of Robins
- 2018:
Rose Matafeo
?
Horndog
- 2019:
Jordan Brookes
?
I've Got Nothing
- 2022:
Sam Campbell
?
Comedy Show
- 2023:
Ahir Shah
?
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