Tim Key (born 2 September 1976) is an English writer, performance poet, comedian and actor. In 2009, he was the winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award and was also nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.

Filmography

• New Zealand Spy — Hilton
• 2026Sausage Poem — Writer
• 2025Mickey 17 — Pigeon Man
• 2025Stroke of Genius — Narrator (voice)
• 2025The Ballad of Wallis Island — Charles Heath, Screenplay, Executive Producer
• The Paper — Ken Davies
• 2024Wicked Little Letters — Father Ambrose
• Here We Go — Ray
• 2022See How They Run — Commissioner Harrold Scott
• The Horne Section TV Show — Ken Longlevers
• The Witchfinder — Gideon Bannister
• 2021Talk Radio — Danny Mallard (voice)
• 2020Days of the Bagnold Summer — Dale
• 2020Love Wedding Repeat — Sidney
• No More Jockeys — Creator
• After Life — Rude Date
• Brassic — Vortex
• 2019Greed — Sam
• This Time with Alan Partridge — Simon Denton
• Trust — Gavin
• 2018Wonderdate — Man, Writer
• Gap Year — Greg
• Pls Like — James Wirm
• 2017Regular — Regular
• 2017The Overcoat — Narrator
• Stag — Aitken
• Year Friends — Peter Priest
• Zapped — Sextus
• Cradle to Grave — Stutely
• 2015I Decided to Leave — Man (voice)
• Taskmaster Bonus Material
• Together — Joseph the Policeman
• 2015Tree
• 2014Anthony — Santa, Writer
• Inside No. 9 — Ian, Self
• 2014Sardines — Ian
• 2014The Dog Thrower — Jonah
• 2014The Double — Care Worker
• 2014Two Films About Loneliness
• 2013Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa — Sidekick Simon
• 2013I Give It a Year — Alan
• Plebs — Mushki
• 2013The Harry Hill Movie — Toilet Attendant
• 2013Very Few Fish — Jimbo
• A Young Doctor's Notebook — Pyotr the Patient
• 2012Games On: Tent — Dan
• Playhouse Presents — Jonah
• 2011One Day — Customer
• Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge — Sidekick Simon
• Cowards — Writer
• No More Women — Self - Contestant, Creator
• We Need Answers — Self - Question Master, Creator
• Angelo's — Steve
• Skins — Dr. O'Dwyer
• 2007The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island — Charles Heath, Writer
• Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive — Kim
• Saxondale — Promotions Guy
• Celebrity Mastermind
• Peep Show — Jerry

Appearances as themselves (12)

• 2025Chess Ham — Self
• The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer — Self - Guest
• 2017Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom? — Himself
• Richard Osman's House of Games — Self - Contestant
• Taskmaster — Self
• 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown — Self - Dictionary Corner
• Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe — Self
• Pointless Celebrities — Self - Contestant
• The Bubble — Self
• 2010The Games That Time Forgot: Cricket on Horseback and Other Forgotten Sports — Self - Rival and Friend
• The One Show — Self
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks — Self