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The Comedian Tim Vine at the Edinburgh Fringe
On the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010 the comedian Tim Vine won the award for the best joke with the gag: ''I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.''
In his show this year ‘The Tim Vine Chat Show’ the ‘King of the One-Liner’ joke chats to guests plucked from the audience. It could be Martin from Leeds, who runs a rug shop or Lydia, a housewife from Dundee. Actual people are the stars of the show and Tim interviews them all with childlike enthusiasm. As Tim always says, 'everybody has a story' (please note that the production cannot guarantee that everyone will have a story). 'A very funny man indeed'(Bob Monkhouse), 'The man with the golden pun' (Independent), 'Seriously funny' (Times), 'I never said I had a story' (Martin from Leeds).
I bumped into Tim on the Royal Mile and although he was in a bit of a hurry, he sportingly posed for a photo.
Another typical Tim Vine joke that I like:
"Robbery in multi-storey car-parks. That's wrong on so many levels!"
Yay! We've managed to book tickets for his 2012 Fringe Show! :0))
Stop Press the show was brilliant although he did come up to me in the audience and threaten to break my wife's other (unbroken) arm if I second guessed any more of his punchlines. LOL He is a nice guy as well as as a comedic genius.
2013 STOP PRESS We went to his show again and Tim was brilliant as usual. I got on stage as his final interviewee because I reminded him about threatening my wife last year. Of course this was grist to the mill for a comedian who is a fast improviser of punch-lines.
The Comedian Tim Vine at the Edinburgh Fringe
On the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010 the comedian Tim Vine won the award for the best joke with the gag: ''I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.''
In his show this year ‘The Tim Vine Chat Show’ the ‘King of the One-Liner’ joke chats to guests plucked from the audience. It could be Martin from Leeds, who runs a rug shop or Lydia, a housewife from Dundee. Actual people are the stars of the show and Tim interviews them all with childlike enthusiasm. As Tim always says, 'everybody has a story' (please note that the production cannot guarantee that everyone will have a story). 'A very funny man indeed'(Bob Monkhouse), 'The man with the golden pun' (Independent), 'Seriously funny' (Times), 'I never said I had a story' (Martin from Leeds).
I bumped into Tim on the Royal Mile and although he was in a bit of a hurry, he sportingly posed for a photo.
Another typical Tim Vine joke that I like:
"Robbery in multi-storey car-parks. That's wrong on so many levels!"
Yay! We've managed to book tickets for his 2012 Fringe Show! :0))
Stop Press the show was brilliant although he did come up to me in the audience and threaten to break my wife's other (unbroken) arm if I second guessed any more of his punchlines. LOL He is a nice guy as well as as a comedic genius.
2013 STOP PRESS We went to his show again and Tim was brilliant as usual. I got on stage as his final interviewee because I reminded him about threatening my wife last year. Of course this was grist to the mill for a comedian who is a fast improviser of punch-lines.