Tim Key on Steve Coogan, Alan Partridge and Carey Mulligan 

Tim Key is genuinely just so naturally fun, just his demeanor and the way he speaks is entertaining.

This is great banter! It really is...!

Tim Key's Late Night Poetry programme is a jewel of a show. Perfection. Just got Chapters and the two lockdown books are outstanding. Honourable mentions from below the line for No More Jockeys. Tim is so much more than a sidekick!

Mid Morning Matters was superb - locked off cameras, very minimal, Steve doing Partridge, and the icing on this car crash of hugely embarrassing moments was Tim’s ‘Sidekick Simon.’ The chemistry was just brilliant.

Key's character on Saxondale wasn't selling timeshares but asks Tommy if he's considered consolidating his credit card debts. Tommy replied, "No, but I've thought about caning them all into the red then faking my own death."

I think I am turning into a massive Tim Key fan just by watching this... what a lovely man!

I love Tim Key's brand of comedy - he is so completely off the wall and full of surprises.

PLEASE listen to Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme on BBC Sounds - it is radio comedy perfection.

Tim Key is truly a unique comedy voice

Also, make sure you listen to The Adam Buxton Podcast episode 77 with Tim Key, one of the all time great podcast episodes!

Martin freeman has worked with Gervais on the Office and Coogan on Hot Fuzz

The subtle 'I've got about 4" at 6'02" is hilarious. Even Brydon missed it.

It’s so rare to come across somebody with a unique comic voice. I watch the Witchfinder series practically on repeat just to marvel again and again at Tim Key’s performance and perfect timing.

Will never ever get bored of Tim

I think his performances in Cowards was very understated. Very cool guy.

I think the Kathy Burke thing was "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme", a differemnt Abba lyric :). As for money films there is "The Color of Money", a sequel to "The Hustler" with Paul Newman and Tom Cruise...

Ben Stiller. Gervais and Coogan were both in Night at the Museum.

Fantastic interview. Excellent chipping-in.

Tim Key is so naturally hilarious. His last line in this is perfect!

I have never seen anybody nail comedic timing and subtle facial expression as Tim Key did with Sidekick Simon. Thank you

Tim’s such a great comedian,loved him in mid morning matters 😂

Such a funny, warm, humble man. Love him.

I love the idea of Carey Mulligan winning an Oscar and then saying, “I must do a film with that chap from No More Jockeys.”

Mid Morning Matters is the best Partridge and Sidekick Simon is a big part of that.

That was lovely, I could listen to those two all night. As to Steve Coogan, his talent knows no bounds - just look at the Stan and Ollie film. To channel the essence of one of the greatest comic actors so thoroughly that you forget you're watching an impersonation and go away feeling like you've seen the real thing. He is definitely up there with the likes of Stan Laurel himself as one of our top performers.

Those little moments Rob pointed out are brilliant , Tim is absolutely perfect for his role…. Love it.

I love Tim Key. Such a likeable guy.

Tim is amazing! And Chapters is great. Get his lockdown books too. Very on point and hilarious.

Tim Key was brilliant on taskmaster!

I could listen to these soothing voices anecdoting & chipping-in all day long. Brilliant interview. Tim is so funny & cute, I love him ❤

Diane Morgan - the person Rob & Tim couldn't think of who has worked with both Coogan and Gervais is Diane Morgan.

My favourite one of these yet, Tim's a gem!

I love the offbeat pace of Tim Key's delivery. Always surprising.

The scene in This Time they are talking about with the interactive screen is just brilliant. The bit where he looks looking for the phone calls, and he gets to a screen where every icon is a phone 📱📞☎️ is sublime. We are lucky to have such brilliant people making comedy

The scene where Simon has betrayed Alan by going on the Branning show is wonderful ❤

I've shared a pint with Tim Key, a ruddy nice bloke

Great to Timkey, a shame he didn't play his magic flute

An extra lovely element of this is Tim wrote an article for the independent about how much he loves holding hands 2:24

A chipper in... Yes. A special talent unto itself.

Became an instant fan when I first saw him as Gerry, Jez’s replacement in Peep Show. He was like Jim Howick. Comedy and acting guns.

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme was the sitcom with Kathy Burke and James Dreyfus not Money, Money, Money

key is so lovable. chipper-inner 💗

Tim key as Mushki… the new slave on Plebs was wonderful. Also. I think Tim should bring Tom Basden with him everywhere he goes to play a musical accompaniment when he speaks.

For me, Mid Morning Matters is peak Partridge, and Tim Key as Simon was obviously a huge part of that. A very talented comedy actor.

Utterly delightful. Two of my all-time favorite people.

Love the Harold Pinter anecdote.... v.funny.

David Mitchell was in the film Greed with Steve Coogan and co-wrote the sketch show Bruiser with Ricky Gervais.

MMM was probably peak partridge - every episode was flawless

Tim Key interviewing Simon Amstell 12 years ago,on You Tube is golden,like this. The way Simon and Tim bounce of each other is superb.

Whenever I hear Pinter mentioned I always think back to when I used to listen Derek and Clive (Peter Cook and Dudley Moore`s hilariously filthy alter egos). “Prick in the hands of Pinter is pure gold

the most brilliant and most funny thing I ever seen was Alan during a bit of improv saying "hey there baby girl" and the look on Tim's face totally cracked me up. Good team work and the camera to get Tims look was so clever. Priceless.

The first 5 minutes were like an episode of between 2 ferns

Truly wonderful. Thank you

Tim key is hilarious.

Cracking banter ! It really is

This is such a warm conversation. Affable and garrulous.

Tim Key 🗝️ locked in to this interview 😊

I grew to love Tim Keys sense of humour through watching that RU-vid thing he does with Alex Horne, no more jockeys

Tim Key is such a funny guy his awkward sidekick Simon on Alan Partridge is hilarious

Saw Tim at the fringe in 2010. He was actually very good.

What a lovely chat

Two for the show........excellent.

Absolutely loved all of this and, especially, the first 4 minutes which were golden but a lovely Podcast. Thank You.

Clink of Crockery would be a great name for a podcast.

THE WITCHFINDER! 🤣👌

Possibly the greatest video ever made, and the camera work is truly world class. Shit, I forgot to put a picture of a birds arse in my avi.

Excellent stuff.

Lovely stuff

Lynn, idea for spinoff podcast ‘Trousers Off With Rob Brydon’ oh and can you collect my dry cleaning.

Tim playing a local tv journalist trying to interview Warwick Davis on Life’s Too Short is still some of the funniest shit I’ve ever seen.

Anyone else find this man wildly attractive? In so many ways? Just sitting there in his footie gear. No pretentiousness just wonderful wit and humour and humility. He's a total one off. Good luck to him.

Tim Key has worked with both Coogan and Gervais

I was racking my brain as to why that voice was so familiar, and then it clicked. He sounds like Nick Mohammed, and I Just recently binged Ted Lasso. I've seen Tim first, but watching this now, just makes it clear!🤯😂

I don't remember Rob's anecdote about Pinter. Nice one!

Please have Tom Basden on next Mr Brydon ❤

check out Simon key in a fantastic short film, called Wonderdate. Such a talented and nice guy

I wanted to hear the rest of the Impington to Footlights tale. Sometimes Rob just can’t resist hogging it.

Perfect ending 😂

Best poet ❤️

And that's how you end a great podcast...

This is golf, i mean gold...apart from the absence of cork glass mats, good job.

26:07 - It wasn't Money Money Money. It was Gimme Gimme Gimme, lads.

The biggest compliment I ever heard paid to Tim Key was from Steve Coogan himself. He said Tim's funny but he doesn't know how he's funny, and that because he fails to be able to pinpoint this it intrigues him.

The answer is of course Rob Brydon, whose voice appeared alongside those of Ricky Gervais and Steve Coogan in the classic Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe.

*A lovely bit of skirt!*

"I don't know any fashion words!" "Lynn wears a coat that was advertised with the words STRONG COAT FOR SALE" That wonderful scene with Seb Cardinal in This Time is so wonderful.

Simon Pegg has worked with both Coogan and Gervais. Spaced and Hot Fuzz.

my favourite show back in the day was money money money with Kathy Burke and James Dreyfuss

😂...Do you mean "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme"?

I don't mind it.

Tim Key was brilliant with Coogan on mid morning matters

Quite enchanting and an excellent guest. That Technology part of the show with Partridge was hilarious...Partridge a late substitute Presenter a la "One Show" introduces a "rare, special talent" that he has discovered and introduces "Simon" to the Narion amidst glowing praise and, gradually, thru Simon's total ineptitude gets more and more embarrassed by his "find" and cuts the segment,to which Simon enquires if he can still do the weather later and Coogan gives him the darkest look imaginable. Brilliant!

The Kathy Burke/James Dreyfus series wasn't called money money money, it was called Gimme Gimme Gimme so Tim can use money money money.

Both worked with Ben Stiller actually in the same film Night in the museum

Yes

KEYSEYYYYYYY

Tim has this bizarre ability to get more out of the interviewer than the interviewer gets out of him. He did the same thing to Richard Herring

Bohnson & Moggeth Bohnson waddled out into the garden… the sun was hot hot hot!. His rays bounced off the side of the house that he rented and into his scruffy, urine coloured hair. He put his fists on his thick hips and surveyed the proceedings; he liked what he saw, put it that way. “Staffers Unwinding” - that’s the headline news! Caps flying off beer… senior politicians wrestling… policy makers unfolding Twister. Finding a flat bit of lawn to peg it down. Bohnson smiled, his tennis shorts bulging with pride. Moggeth handed him a couple of Swedish meatball wraps and ladled some punch down his throat. “Oh Moggeth, you see the vibe?” There was a Government affiliated DJ playing chilled Tory beats, and Bohnson’s trotters started jiggling on the turf. He checked his watch… “well that’s me I reckon” Mogeth almost choked on his Bullmers… “You ain’t fuckin’ off already are you?” Bohnson winked and did an ‘under the thumb’ gesture. He smashed a tin opener against a bottle of Bollinger… “Right, I’m off you ‘horrible lot!” They boo’d, some had their tops off, some had coke running down their chests. “Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do, chaps!” “Narrow it down boss!” The laughter grew & grew, it swept Bohnson back through his French Windows, it rose over the walls and drifted like poison across the city. Tim Key. Genius poet.

Definitely have more of the hand holding in future episodes. But sparingly.

Rob. It's Gimme Gimme Gimme. 👍🙄