Tim Vine
Tim Vine made his first real attempts at stand-up comedy in 1991 at the Comedy Café in London. He began to attend the New Act competition nights regularly. While continuing to attend the café, he started to do numerous open spots in other clubs throughout 1992. In 1993 he came second in the Hackney Empire New Act competition and by 1994 he was a regular on the London comedy circuit. That year he made his first TV appearances on BBC Pebble Mill.
In 1995 his show ‘The Tim Vine Fiasco’ won him the Perrier Best Newcomer award at the Edinburgh Festival. He hosted the morning game show ‘Housemates’ on BBC One the same year.
In 1996 he returned to the Edinburgh Festival with a sell-out show called “The Tim Vine Shambles’. In 1997 he became the first man to appear on Channel Five, co-hosting the very first show called ‘This is Five’ with Julia Bradbury.
He also hosted the game show ‘Whittle’ on Channel Five and his own comedy games how called ‘Fluke’ which ran over the same period on Channel Four. He sold out Edinburgh again with his shows ‘Tim Vine Flat Out’ (1998 and ‘I’m Vine Thanks’ and ‘Tim Vine and the Minotaur’ (1999).
In 2000 Tim performed in the Royal Variety Show in front of Prince Charles. From 2001 to 2002 he appeared in two series of ITV’s ‘The Sketch Show’ which won a BAFTA. In 2004 he broke the Guinness world record for the most jokes told in an hour (499).
