Tim Key

Throw my poems down, drink Cronenberg, Soviet lounge music, and then it ends and we're done.

I'm going down.

It's the classics.

Well, yeah, why not?

The first time I did it... The first time I did a solo behind a mic... I mean, I can't even bear to think about it.

This is very triggering.

But I did it probably in about 2002.

I did it because I sort of gradually found myself accidentally in that world, but in a sketch show and just doing comedy.

And then I think I just, without like...

uh overthinking it i think i wanted to do i think it feels like it's the most pure form of comedy it might not be i don't necessarily think it is but there's definitely something about it which is quite gladiatorial yeah and which feels like it's some it's just something that you should try because um it's different from

being with your little sketch group, which I really loved.

It's kind of how probably me and Tom learned how to write and perform and stuff like that.

But there is something about just, that's both horrible and exhilarating about walking out on your own in front of an audience who have come to see you.

But it's a very difficult place to get to because you have to, like, die.

several times on the way, and you have to be on the N15 night bus and lose your trousers.

It's not like plain sailing.

Yeah, it's not easy.

It's not like a lot of jobs, you know.

There's moments where you're like really, really soul searching and wondering why you're doing it.

But I don't know.