Tim Key

Tim Key
Key at the Sundance Film Festival in 2025
Born
Timothy Key

(1976-09-02) 2 September 1976
Cambridge, England
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 Sidekick Simon in various Alan Partridge film and television projects. In 2009, he won the Edinburgh Comedy Award and was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.