Tim Vine is a London-born stand-up comedian and one of British comedy's most prolific pun-tellers, building entire shows out of rapid-fire one-liners, sight gags and props. He first tried stand-up at a friend's party in his twenties, and by the early 1990s was a regular on the London comedy circuit, developing the fast, cheerful, family-friendly style that has defined his career ever since. Few comedians can match his sheer joke density, and audiences know a Tim Vine set means being carried along by an unbroken stream of wordplay.
Tim won the Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1995 and went on to hold the Guinness World Record for the most jokes told in an hour, setting a new mark of 499 in 2004. He is a twice winner of the Edinburgh Fringe's Funniest Joke award, and is widely known to TV audiences as Tim from the sitcom Not Going Out. He has also finished runner-up on Taskmaster, appeared on Would I Lie to You?, and headlined Live at the Apollo with one of the show's most quoted sets of one-liners.
Tim's material is clean, quick and built for maximum audience participation, which makes him a natural fit for corporate events, theatre nights and family shows where a broad, all-ages crowd needs to be won over fast. He performs with warmth and relentless energy, and few acts on the circuit can generate as much goodwill in as little time. Booking Tim means guaranteeing a room full of groans and genuine laughter in equal measure.