(340 PART 1) Tim Key: master of comedy, poetry and roasting Jamie Laing
Private Parts
Peter Cowley
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Private Parts, the podcast where nothing is off limits.
We’re back with another Friday episode and what a way to end the working week. We’re joined by the hilarious comedian turned poet, Tim Key. You’ll know him from Peep Show, Alan Partridge's Mid Morning Matters and Taskmaster.
Tim first appeared on the comedy circuit after he pretended to be a student at The University of Cambridge in order to get into Footlights, which took him to the Edinburgh Fringe. He then started out as a stand-up comedian, and after a few bad shows, retreated and started writing poems.
He speaks to Jamie and Tom about all of this and more, including where his love of comedy came from, and tells the story of when he and Jamie became the very best of friends. Plus, he gives us an exclusive reading from his new anthology of poems ‘Chapters’, which is available for pre-order here. It is due for release on 6th November.
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| 0:00.0 | And can you believe we're on series 10 and what a series it's going to be where kicking |
| 0:07.1 | off with guests like Luana, Laurie Haynes, and none other than Katie Bryce? And guys don't |
| 0:12.4 | forget, if you think you've had a mystical you're going to listen back to some amazing |
| 0:15.8 | episodes with guests like Leverwood, Jack Josser, Amy Childs, Fog Williams, K3rd Nan and |
| 0:21.5 | Klaus Lawett's Lawett's Law, and Jai! |
| 0:33.5 | Tim, welcome to the podcast. Yeah, good to be here. The great Tim just comes in and sees |
| 0:40.6 | the whole set up and went, it's kind of phone my agent. Yeah, we thought you walked in, |
| 0:45.3 | saw us, saw the studio and just immediately thought I'm not doing this. I haven't even |
| 0:48.8 | got an agent. She needed to get out of this room. It's horrible here. It's a very intense |
| 0:54.4 | energy to walk into. It's horrible. It's completely dark. Yeah, why was that? Don't know |
| 1:01.4 | it's a power move from us. Yeah, so you walk in a film intimidated, then we sit you down. |
| 1:05.2 | Yeah, and you had all those sweets over there. Yeah, it's a horrible atmosphere in here. |
| 1:09.1 | Yeah, it's a horrible place to work Tim. Do you enjoy podcasts? That mind them. This one's |
| 1:15.6 | quite intense. Yeah. One, two, three, just the three cameras and a glowing moon. This one's |
| 1:22.4 | quite intense. Yeah, but this is what we do. We like the cameras. Yeah, three cameras. |
| 1:27.1 | Three cameras. There's a lot of script video in here, isn't there? Yeah, if it was up to me |
| 1:31.4 | and have more. Would you? Yeah. Yeah. Well, if it's up to you, this would be on Telly. Oh, yeah. |
| 1:35.2 | Try it. Try it. It does look like that's the direction you're trying to get into. |
| 1:45.6 | Why are you filming your podcast with three cameras? Just put it further back. We could do |
| 1:50.4 | his one, don't we? Just a wide, just one wide shot. Because we want the individual shots. |
| 1:54.0 | No, it's going to look so right. Tim, it's going to look so good. So the emotional bits. |
| 1:57.3 | Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. Are you on it? My what? Have you got a question? |
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