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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Interview by Liam Pape

Tim Key: ‘I like writing in the pub, but then the poems tend to be about the pub’

Tim Key.
Tim Key. Photograph: PR

How did you get into comedy?
I joined a sketch group, went to the Edinburgh fringe, and then kept doing that for years. It’s a good place to try and get better, to work out what you’re doing.

Who were your early influences?
When I first moved to London I watched Paul Foot a lot. You need to see Paul Foot. He’s unique. I would think: “What on earth could I do that would be half as funny as that?”

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