Tim Key

Tim Key
Key performing in 2010
Born
Timothy Key

(1976-09-02) 2 September 1976 (age 48)
Alma materUniversity of Sheffield (BA)
Occupations
  • Actor
  • comedian
  • poet
  • radio personality
  • screenwriter
Years active2001–present
Websitetimkey.co.uk

Timothy Key (born 2 September 1976) is an English poet, comedian, actor and screenwriter. He 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. In 2009, he won the Edinburgh Comedy Award and was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.