Tim Key (Retro) - "The Imp from Impington"

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Tv & Film

4.7 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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#430 The Imp from Impington - Rich has a problem with his daughter’s favourite song, and shows that he is up to date with all the music playing at the discos nowadays. His guest is the irrepressible timkey, back for a third time in 18 months!. They talk about Tim’s time as a white van man, a woman who survived eight days in a snow drift (for a bit), the places that Tim is and isn’t going for his (basically sold out) tour https://www.plosive.co.uk/events/tim-key-mulberry-tour-2023, where he gets his crazy ideas, the incredible baguette deal in Pret, which comedian would make the best Prime Minister, being the answer to a question of University Challenge and what it’s like to do a gig to a mainly Malaysian audience.

There’s a new and exciting instalment of the adventures of timkey the monkey and the pair compare cancers and then Rich asks the occasionally dynamite question, “What’s it like being Tim Key?” Who can be sure. All I know is it’s always a rollercoaster of fun and danger to be in his company!

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0:00.0	Hi, Ratfans, thanks for downloading my podcast. Do check out Rich and Alley's Craven News Round on YouTube.
0:07.0	It's really good. Have some fun with that. Herring, 1967.
0:12.0	Some bad news. I have a medical issue, which I will discuss at some point later.
0:17.0	Substack paid subscribers know about it. You get all the down low if you pay to
0:22.2	subscribe on substack. But it does mean that there's a procedure going on in June, which will mean
0:28.1	I think I have to cancel the Leicester Square Theatre gigs on the 1st and 8th of July. Hopefully
0:33.5	everything else will still be going on, the Droitwich gig, which is sold out. I'm doing stand-up gigs at St. Albans on the 7th of June, along with Katie Wilkins, my beautiful wife, in the Roman Theatre.
0:47.5	And they've just added an extra show to that.
0:51.3	So there's a later show with lots of tickets available.
0:54.0	I'd love to see you there. If you can get to St. Albans on the Sunday night. I'm very much hoping that show. We'll still go ahead. I think it should. And hopefully everything will be all right for the Edinburgh Fringe. You can also get details of the tickets for that. Richardhering.com slash Rahalastapa. I'll start booking guests soon, but, Kay, you know, whoever it is, it's going to be good. And it should, the podcast should be going out for the rest of the year as well. So you will be able to hear them at home if you can't get to the Edinburgh Fringe. But everything's okay. Don't worry about me. It should be all right.
1:29.7	But if you can support me in any way, either by coming to a gig or becoming a badger or a
1:34.3	sub-spaq subscriber, then that would be quite useful in the short term. All right, thanks for
1:41.3	listening. Enjoy this podcast. Do tell your friends. Goodbye.
1:45.2	Hello, my finest friends. Welcome to another retro Rahalasdapa. This is an incredible run of gigs we've got coming up from 2023.
1:55.2	We are repeating them for those who missed them the first time or if you want to forward them to your friends who don't know the show or if you want to just enjoy a second time this one with Timke was this his first time he came on he's been on so many times now he wouldn't come on and then he came on and we couldn't stop him coming on he is of course one of my favourite guests he's there's a Timke the monkey in this one I'm sure it's a lot of No ads, nothing in there. If you want to pay us back, come and see a live gig, Richard Herring.com, slash Rahalesterper, or go to go fastestripe.com and buy one of my books or downloads or become a badger. Or just spread the word to your friends or listen to the adverts we do have on the podcasts and that helps pay for
2:34.7	this rubbish as well. We'll keep going as long as we are not losing money. That's a promise.
2:41.7	Okay, sit back, relax and enjoy the incredible Timkee, Timkee the monkey.
2:49.8	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Leicester Square Theatre.
2:52.6	Please welcome, and who's still processing, the Edinburgh Fringe, 1988.
2:56.6	It's Richard Herring!
2:58.6	Thank you very much. My shoelaces come undone. I was just, I'd just been laughing till I cried backstage asking some emergency questions backstage. You will be able to see those if you join ACAS Plus.
3:18.1	Welcome to Richard Herring's Lester Square Theatre podcast. I was talking to Tim Key the Monkey backstage.
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