Tim Vine

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Timothy Mark Vine (born 4 March 1967) is an English writer, actor, comedian, and host, best known for his one-liner gags and his appearance on Not Going Out from 2006 to 2014.

He has released a number of DVDs of his stand-up comedy as well as written several joke books.

Vine was named for best joke at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2010 and 2014.

"I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday," he said.

"I'll tell you what, never again" and "I decided to sell my Hoover "well, it was just collecting dust." In 2011, 2012 and 2013, he was the runner-up.

Early life

Timothy Mark Vine was born in Cheam on March 4, 1967, the son of Diana (née Tillett), a housewife and occasional doctor's receptionist, and Guy Vine (died 2018), a civil engineering lecturer at North East Surrey College of Technology. He is the younger brother of artist Sonya Vine and the younger brother of artist Jeremy Vine. He was educated in Surrey and studied at Lynton Prep in Ewell, Aberdour School in Burgh Heath, and Epsom College in Epsom.

Personal life

Vine lives in Banstead, Surrey. He is a practising Anglican and has appeared at Spring Harvest Christian Festivals.

Vine is a fan of football team Sutton United FC, claiming that the team's first game against Middlesbrough FC was an FA Cup match against Middlesbrough FC during the 1987–88 season. He and Lee Mack are both a passionate darts fan, having attended several Professional Dart Corporation tournaments together. Any of these were televised, as at the 2011 World Championships, where both Vine and Mack appeared in the crowd. In his spare time, he also plays darts. Vine scored 170 in darts on a live Twitter broadcast on December 31, 2020 in front of a large online audience.

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Career

Vine's stand-up act consists primarily of a series of quick-fire one-liners and puns, as well as a collection of props and a box full of puppets.

Vine and a security guard from his corporate career in Croydon started doing open mic nights as a pastime. Tim Vine honed his routine at the Comedy Café in London in 1991, and subsequently moved to other clubs. In 1993, he came second in the Hackney Empire New Act competition. Vine left his career to travel for Boothby Graffoe, who later wrote additional information for The Sketch Exhibition. Vine debuted on the London comedy circuit in 1994, performing a variety of comedy styles. After the audience's empathetic reaction to his joke, he realized that one-liners were a good move forward: "So I went to the doctors." 'You've got hypochondria,' he said.

I said, 'Not that as well!'"

Vine developed his repertoire before starring on BBC One's Pebble Mill for his first television appearance.

Vine Mack was a student at the University of Kingston-Upon-Hull in 1996. Mack was competing in The Gong Show, in which up to ten comedians compete for a full five-minute slot, with the intention of escaping the Gong and not being rejected by the public. Mack did a couple of Vine's satisfactions, to which the audience yelled "Tim Vine." When Mack came off stage, he asked a man named Tim Vine and got the reply, "He plays here a lot." Tim Vine was the man. The two artists then appeared together on The Sketch Show, Not Going Out, and Let's Play Darts for Comic Relief.

The comedian has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe regularly, with shows including The Tim Vine Shambles and The Tim Vine Fiasco (1995) - which earned him the Perrier Newcomer Award - then Tim Vine Flat Out (1999), I'm Vine Thanks and Tim Vine (1999). He had a massive advertising hoarding erected in 2006 featuring his name and image, as well as a small sub-heading "...is not attending this year's Edinburgh Festival" For the first two weeks of the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Vine appeared at the Pleasance Courtyard, performing a show titled Punslinger.

In 2007, Spring Harvest Festival, alongside John Archer at Skegness and Minehead, and Live in Concrete at the Cambridge Theatre in May 2007.

Current Puns (2006) and Punslinger (2008) are two of Vine's UK comedy tours. He performed at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London in July 2008, which was released on September 27th, 2008. The Joke-amotive tour was the third tour of his tour in February and March 2010, with a DVD of the show being released in November 2011. Tim Timinee Tim Timinee Tim Timinee To You tour album was released in 2016, then Sunset Milk Idiot (2019). Typically, Vine's support act is Britain's Got Talent's comedian John Archer.

Vine said in a BBC Radio Wales interview with Behnaz Akhgar (12 October 2021), that he had intended to host a new stand-up show at the 2020 Edinburgh Fringe, but that was postponed until at least 2022 due to the covid pandemic.

Several of Vine's parodies have been incorrectly attributed to Tommy Cooper, several of whom are in Cooper's style; the West End exhibit on Cooper actually features some of Vine's parody.

Vine's musical abilities, in addition to the comedy songs in his show, include playing the guitar, bass, piano, and drums.

He drums at his church on a Sunday. He performed in several bands, including alongside his brother Jeremy in The Flared Generation, which Smash Hits magazine described as "the most unpopular punk band in the country."

Vine has three novelty music collections, Pretend Popstar - Fake Hits, Dance Floor Gridlock, and Angus Crunch and the Nepali Flautist.

Vine is a huge Elvis Presley fan who has been going back to Elvis in 1977; he has a portrait of the rock and roll queen in every room at home; The megastar was Vine's Expert Subject on Celebrity and Inspiration for his appearance on Viva Las Vegas on Comic Relief Does Fame Academy. At the Edinburgh Fringe, Vine's Plastic Elvis tribute act was a sell-out. Plastic Elvis, the 2020 UK tour, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and rescheduled for fall 2021 to spring 2022. Despite the fact that commercials state "This is not a stand-up comedy show," Vine's regular support act comedian/magician John Archer plays Big Buddy Holly. On a duet with Plastic, David Martin, who wrote four of the show's Elvis numbers, performs a duet with Plastic. The High Noon Band (UK) plays music, with backing vocals by Josie Quinn Abraham.

Vine competed in the Isolation Song Contest representing Romania in May 2020, when the Eurovision Song Contest was called off due to the covid pandemic. In addition to this, John Archer appeared in several portraits from his own house. Crisis, Refugee (which supports female domestic violence survivors) and the Trussell Trust food banks raised over £40,000 for the homeless charity Crisis, Refuge (which helps female domestic violence victims).

In December 2007, Vine launched 'Tim Vine Celebrates', his first podcast. On December 19, the first episode of "Tim Vine Celebrates Christmas" was released for free and featured many previously unheard jokes and amusing songs, as well as a number of comedic characters, mainly voiced by himself.

Vine premiered Tim Vine Televisual (TVTV) in autumn 2019, premiering a short video of sketches every Monday evening for more than a year. Recognizing Columbo, a series that was mainly shot in Vine's home during the pandemic, is included in another video. In his guest spot (3 February 2022), Vine revived his Columbo on Countdown, dressing as and impersonating the dishevelled detective. Instalments based on season one of Vine's YouTube channel content for 2022.

In the same vein, Vine, as well as over 100 other Jaws superfans, appeared in the 2020 international film Jaws We Make. To commemorate the blockbuster's 45th anniversary, the entire film was recreated using a combination of amateur/professional production techniques and posted on YouTube. Jaws was Vine's Specialist Subject on his second appearance at Celebrity Mastermind last year.

Tim Vine's first television appearance was on BBC One's Pebble Mill in 1994.

Vine hosted a one-morned quiz of Housemates in autumn 1995, with the theme Up The Garden Path. The series ran for one season of 25 episodes.

When the network first appeared on Channel 5, including Julia Bradbury and the Spice Girls, he was the first man to appear on the show. The following day, Whittle premiered with Vine for two seasons, March-June and September-December.

Vine created the Channel 4 game show Fluke from May to August 1997. Lee Mack, the warm-up comedian, was the warm-up comedian.

In 2004, Tim hosted Fort Boyard Takes on the World.

Vine appeared in all of ITV's The Sketch Show with Lee Mack from 2001 to 2004. Vine's good friend and tour support act, John Archer, and Tim Boothby Graffoe and Tim's sister Sonya Vine were among the contributors who wrote additional material on occasion.

Vine played Timothy Gladstone Adams in Lee Mack's BBC One sitcom Not Going Out from 2006 to 2012. As Lee's top guy, he appeared in the Christmas 2014 episode and the series 7 finale.

Vine has appeared on Countdown as a guest in Dictionary Corner since 2009.

Vine produced one of the Don't Blow the Inheritance for ITV in 2012.

In 2012 and 2021, Vine met "The Beast" Mark Labbett on The Chase (series 11, episode 10) in Los Angeles and 2021.

In the second and final season of BBC One's comedy Blandings (2013-2014), based on the books by P. G. Wodehouse, replacing Mark Williams, Vine portrayed Sebastian Beach.

Vine appeared as a resident comedian with Joe Wilkinson in 2014 and 2015.

He appeared on two episodes of Tim Vine Travels Through Time on BBC One in 2017. Sally Phillips, Mandeep Dhillon, Marek Larwood, and John Archer were among the regular cast members. Emma Bunton and Ore Oduba were among the special guests in the 2019/2020 Cinderella panto at Fairfield Halls, Croydon, which was performed by Vine.

Vine, a celebrity contestant in ten episodes of Taskmaster series 6, on Dave, was a contestant in mid-2018. His experiments included measuring a piece of string with a plastic lobster.

In autumn 2018, Vine hosted an ITV quiz show Football Genius.

Tim Vine has participated in several Comic Relief / Sport Relief charity competitions. Does Fame Academy Vine performed his pop hero Elvis Presley's hit Viva Las Vegas (2006) and Let's Dance for Comic Relief (2013), Vine was interviewed outside Elvis and given Justin Timberlake's Rock Your Body, making it to the final. He finished second in Let's Play Darts in 2015, losing out to Lee Mack. Vine returned to win it in 2016, defeating Mike Tindall in the final. Joke In A Box was featured in the 2021 telethon, as well as military personnel who had aided medical centers during the COVID-19 pandemic. In One Red Nose and Their Dog, 2022, Vine defeated Kiri Pritchard-McLean in One Red Nose and Their Dog, with preparations on Countryfile (6 March) and the final broadcast on Comic Relief Night (18 March). This is a recreation of the long-running televised competition One Man and His Dog, which was filmed in Penrhyn Castle, Wales.

The Tim Vine Chat Show, in which members of the audience are interviewed, has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as a host, although participants of the audience have filled in a form before the show if they wish to be considered for selection. In July 2016, Vine launched a series of four episodes, as well as a Christmas edition on December 26, 2016. In September and October 2017, a second series of six episodes was available on television. In 2018, and 2019, additional festive and Summer specials were broadcast. The series and specials are also available on BBC Sounds and in audiobook (April 2020). On the 30th November at The CryerArts Centre, the Tim Vine Christmas Chat Show 2021 was broadcast on December 30th.

Tim Vine Travels Through Time was on BBC Radio 2 in 2017, before heading to BBC One for two televised episodes.

The Punslinger audiobook is marginally shorter than the DVD version, as some of the visual gags are skipped.

Vine contributed to the Sit-Down Comedy book in 2003, but his first book, The Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book, contained over 1,000 jokes and puns, which was released in 2010. In 2011, Vine published The Not Quite Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book, specifically for children.

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