TIM KEY ON THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND, FAMILY & WHAT HE'S REALLY LIKE WHEN THE CAMERAS ARE OFF
Great Company with Jamie Laing
Jampot
4.6 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Tim Key is a poet, a comic and someone who I developed an unlikely friendship with through various television appearances together. A few months ago, I went to see The Ballad of Wallis Island and was totally blown away by Tim who not only starred in the movie, but wrote it too. He is a total star and I was excited to have him in the studio - his dry wit combined with my restless energy always makes for a fun time.
Tim is quite a personal guy, and like many comics, uses humour to deflect, but he shared a side of him I’d never really seen.
We cover:
- How Tim faked going to Cambridge to get into the Footlights theatre group
- Brotherly relationships and how some memories shape us
- Filming and writing The Ballad of Wallis Island
- The loneliness of LA
- Becoming a comedian and summers in Edinburgh
I loved this conversation - it’s a little more lighthearted than other episodes, but within that light, we are still able to uncover the deep.
Tim shared some poems from his new book, L.A. Baby! which you can find here: www.utterandpress.co.uk/
And I've got a new book coming out, Boys Don't Cry which you can pre-order here: boysdontcry.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up in this episode of Great Company. |
| 0:02.6 | I'd like to open people up. |
| 0:03.9 | So there's a lot of podcasts where there's an additional thing that you don't need. |
| 0:07.2 | I do. |
| 0:07.8 | Trauma. |
| 0:10.8 | Prizing trauma from people. |
| 0:12.3 | That's your thing. |
| 0:14.0 | Just you wait, Mr. Key. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm going to unlock you. |
| 0:16.9 | You can't prize trauma from me. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi, I'm Tim Key and I am in great company. |
| 0:23.5 | Please welcome the poetic stylings of Tim Key. |
| 0:27.5 | How hard is it to become a comedian? |
| 0:29.3 | Um, I think, um... |
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| 0:35.9 | I would actually open up to you. |
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