#timkey

[allyalbonart]

I vow to only paint the most beautiful of faces. I love Tim Key so much. If you haven't watched it, look for "No More Jockeys" on Youtube, to find Tim Key, Alex Horne and Mark Watson playing the most insane game!

[film-book]

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Film Review: WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (2023): Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley Create Wild Characterizations in a Funny but Slight Film https://film-book.com/film-review-wicked-little-letters-2023-olivia-colman-and-jessie-buckley-create-wild-characterizations-in-a-funny-but-slight-film/?feed_id=129121&_unique_id=6612f7e061b0e

[fofi42]

Nish Kumar understands football

[lyeekha]

given a moment to think i wouldve bet any money timkey would choose Dry Your Eyes

[radioprune]

gonna see timkey 😁😁😁😁😁

[delightfullysubatomic]

My current daily disappointment: checking the #timkey tag on instagram and thinking he’s written a new poem, only to see that they’re by someone copying his style.

[dirtybritcomconfessions2]

Timmy Key and me. Ginger beard tickling my thighs. Soft moans of pleasure.

One of my all-time favourites, Anon. I bloody love Tim Key

[adamwatchesmovies]

Love Wedding Repeat (2020)

Love Wedding Repeat only had one novel thing going for it. Had this been done right, the movie might’ve been saved but writer/director Dean Craig botches it completely. With no laughs, no romance, cliches upon cliches, and characters you don’t even love to hate, this movie struggles - and fails - to validate its existence.

At his sister Hayley’s wedding, Jack (Sam Claflin) is allowed to reconnect with “the one that got away”. He and Dina (Olivia Munn) are seated at the same table but so is his nightmare of an ex-girlfriend (Freida Pinto), her new man (Allan Mustafa), socially inept Sidney (Tim Key), the man/maid of honor who is more concerned with launching his acting career than helping the bride (Joel Fry), his ex-girlfriend and -worst of all - Hayley’s stalker, a coke-head named Marc (Jack Farthing).

This is another rom-com that asks us to cheer for a wet noodle of a protagonist. Jack had his shot with Dina but he didn’t think of calling her or keeping in touch during the three years they were apart. He didn’t care enough to put in the effort so why should we care about this "couple" now?

Everyone at the reception is beholden to idiotic rules no one in the real world would follow and they’re all too obsessed with themselves to be endearing. When Hayley (Eleanor Tomlinson) discovers Marc, she doesn’t try to kick him out. She asks her brother to knock him out with sleeping pills while giving him a spot at the same table as her brother and maid of honor. Then, runaway children switch the seats around, the spiked glass of champagne is given to the wrong person and all the couples are "broken up" by the new arrangement and drama ensues. Hystericals should too, theoretically. Instead, you grow frustrated. Come on Jack. You had THREE YEARS to get Dina. You can’t set aside your feelings for a day to deal with Marc? Bryan hasn’t even written a speech for his “best friend” and with only hours left before he must offer words of encouragement and he doesn't even care.

You'll wish you'd been given sleeping pills after hearing the jokes this movie has to offer. Look at Sidney, a man who - for no reason - has decided to wear a kilt to the wedding. He keeps complaining that the unfamiliar garment is too tight around the crotch (how?) and has to repeatedly adjust himself. He’s no one's friend. He doesn’t speak Italian so he can’t be a guest of Hayley’s husband. Why is he even there?

Up until about 20 minutes to the end, Love Wedding Repeat does NOTHING new. Then, a twist. We’ve seen this disastrous scenario play out when suddenly, the omniscient narrator (Penny Ryder) asks us “but what if the names had been re-arranged this way instead?” The film then rewinds and presents a different course of events, the “right” one. This gimmick is set up early on, but why? We only see two scenarios so you know the second one will end happily. You learn nothing about the characters. All you get is more of your time wasted.

Love Wedding Repeat is well shot but the script and story are worthless. It’s the kind of movie you’ll dislike all the way through and then forget within days, leaving you full of negativity that's got nowhere to go. The end credit deleted scenes don't help. (February 12, 2021)

[ceejayheff]

romance

Two lovers, exiled from one another. They started doing the same things at all times. He would post her a bagel for breakfast and they would eat “together”. For lunch they would cook linguine, slinging it into the pan at twelve forty-five on the dot. They’d run at five and stop in front of their respective oak trees, and in the evening they’d start their movie at the exact same time and watch it with the same red wine in matching glasses, and it was beautiful. At night they screwed their respective flatmates, and all four had a WhatsApp group and it was an absolute disgrace.

Tim Key

[allyalbonart]

Next hyooman underway. Tim Key! I am enjoying painting the most beautiful of people.

[film-book]

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Film Review: SEE HOW THEY RUN (2022): Saoirse Ronan is Terrific in a Whodunit Mystery that Lacks a Bit in Character Development https://film-book.com/film-review-see-how-they-run-2022-saoirse-ronan-is-terrific-in-a-whodunit-mystery-that-lacks-a-bit-in-character-development/?feed_id=99701&_unique_id=63261653f1895

[fofi42]

"Taskmaster has been recommissioned for the next 70 years. At this point, due to the financial situation of Channel 4 they can't afford any other programming."

[jaykoe]

#TheOldVic :: ART:: Three friends and a white painting Fabulous production and fascinating exploration of the nature and purposes of #art & #friendship #TimKey, #PaulRitter and #RufusSewell by #YazminaReza #diector #MathewWarchus #lastday #prejudice #tolerance #uniqueness (at The Old Vic Theatre)

[lyeekha]

answer me timkey

[delightfullysubatomic]

Top 5 Tim Key Podcast Appearances

I think Tim is a great podcast guest and you get to see (hear) quite a different side of him than when he’s in front of a camera. He’s pretty sincere in most of them, esp when he’s friends with the interviewer. So, in no particular order, here are my fav 5 of Tim’s podcast appearances, with bonus notes on how the Footlights story is discussed and which story of failure he talks about (there’s usually at least one!):

Comedian’s Comedian (two parts) [https://www.comedianscomedian.com/113-tim-key-1-of-2/ + https://www.comedianscomedian.com/113a-tim-key-2-of-2/]

Stuart is a great interviewer - he knows lots about the people he’s interviewing and has really thoughtful questions. It’s nice and long, and they talk about Cowards which is unusual. Some early Alex and Mark shows chit chat too.

Footlights: some good chat about the fact that it wasn’t an intentional career move, and he had no concept of doing it to get into comedy, he just wanted to do a play and didn’t want to do am dram.

Fail tale: Playing in Kilkenny and gigs getting worse and worse over three consecutive nights. I googled this out of interest and I think it was in 2010, which is mad considering he’d won the Edinburgh Comedy Award the year before. Also talk of him being rubbish at acting auditions and his failure at being a traditional stand up.

Adam Buxton [https://www.adam-buxton.co.uk/podcasts/50]

Love this. They’ve got a really good rapport and the format of them walking around an art gallery means they end up drifting around various conversation. Funny but they also get into some interesting topics too. 

Lots of Russia talk and even mention of the Kharms doc. I enjoyed the bit near the end where they are talking about how tricky Russian is as a language and are at cross purposes for a moment - Adam is wondering if Tim’s work is deeper due to having learnt Russian but Tim thinks he’s talking about Russian authors so wonders along with him, then realises Adam is talking about him and turns it into a joke.

Also, Tim remembers the name of Adam’s character and one of the bits in it from a show in the mid-2000s?!

Footlights: Not mentioned I think, although he talking about working in the uni library during his gap year.

Fail tale: A truly chilling story of losing his lines, repeatedly, on the first preview of Art.

Scroobius Pip [https://play.acast.com/s/distractionpieces/timkey-distractionpiecespodcastwithscroobiuspip-321]

Similar to Stuart - he was obviously very familiar with Tim’s career and dug quite deep. He’s also good at steering the interview along to avoid retreading old stories.

(Side however - SP does that thing where he keeps relating things to stories from his own life, which gets a bit annoying. I also heard another ep he did with Isy Suttie and SP was a bit interrupty on that one).

In the podcast, Tim mentioned he took the first couple of months of 2020 off. He didn't say why, but presumable because he had The Witchfinder coming up, which after one day of filming was delayed for over a year due to covid. That is really terrible timing!

Footlights: the usual story tbh - see RHLSTP

Fail tale(s): His first two poetry gigs (beanbags with serious poets then on a bill with Russell Brand). And the early stand up when he was terrible and Mark was great right from the start (perfectly coiffured peacock!). And the first show of Masterslut at Edinburgh not going too well and seeing his face on magazines on the way home and feeling shit.

Walking the Dog [https://play.acast.com/s/walkingthedog/timkey-walkingthedogepisode58]

I like the outdoors / walking concept, gave a different feel to it. Also, Emily asked some pretty different questions e.g. therapy, crying, how he was with girls at school. Lovely stuff, although TK stays somewhat guarded. Lots of good topics covered though - childhood, stage persona, post-Edinburgh win career.

But Tim - Emily knew your parents names and about your gap year because you mention them all the time in interviews etc. He always seems so weirded out when people have done any research on him. Of course they have (usually), they’re interviewing him!

Footlights: Same sort of convo as usual but Emily sounds like she’s listened to the Comedian’s Comedian podcast i.e. that it wasn't a Talented Mr Ripley move.

Fail tale: not to bad here - I guess just his failure at school plays and not being successful with girls at school?

Chattin’ Shit [https://play.acast.com/s/chattin-shit/episode5-timkey]

This is a fun one. I like the dynamic between him and the hosts. It’s interesting that it was done during the first lockdown, even pre-NMJ I think. 

Footlights: a different perspective! Interesting chat about the confidence Footlights / Oxbridge people have and the way that that confidence meant that acting / comedy seemed like a viable career choice for them.

Fail tale: The Early Stand Up - bit different to hear him talk about this and the footlights thing with actors/non-stand ups.

Honorary mentions:

Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Apr 2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jv8uPIp3Ac [not a podcast but is great]

Utter Shambles (Dec 2011): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/episode-16-tim-key/id394641784?i=1000108818785

Yes Yes Marsha (podcast from 2015, interview sounds to have been recorded c. 2010): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tim-key-marsha-meets-by-marsha-from-yesyesmarsha-com/id1059539310?i=1000357261775