Tim Vine
Comedian — born 1967
Tim Vine is an English stand-up comedian and author.
Tim Vine is an English comedian, actor, and TV presenter whose three-decade career has produced multiple defining English stand-up-comedy roles — particularly his 2004 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Funniest Joke of the Fringe Award (for his joke "I've decided to sell my Hoover. Well, it was just collecting dust") and his 2014 Funniest Joke of the Fringe Award. He was born Timothy Mark Vine on March 4, 1967, in Cheam, Surrey, England. His father Guy Vine was an English-Anglican-and-Congregationalist church-minister, and his mother Dianne Vine was a homemaker. His older brother Jeremy Vine is an English BBC TV-and-radio presenter.
His education at the City of London School (1980–1985) launched his early-career path. His 1989 first London comedy-club performance and his subsequent 1990s English stand-up-comedy career across multiple London-area comedy clubs produced his early-career English stand-up-comedy public profile.
His 1995 Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut — across his early-career rapid-pun-delivery style (across which he delivered approximately 350 jokes per hour-long stand-up routine) — launched his mid-1990s English stand-up-comedy public profile.
His 2004 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Funniest Joke of the Fringe Award — for his joke "I've decided to sell my Hoover. Well, it was just collecting dust" — produced his mid-2000s English stand-up-comedy public profile. His subsequent 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Funniest Joke of the Fringe Award — for his second Funniest Joke of the Fringe Award (only the second time any English comedian had won the award twice) — produced his 2010s English stand-up-comedy public profile.
His parallel English TV-and-radio comedy career has produced multiple English BBC TV-and-radio comedy roles — particularly his 2005–2010 BBC Radio 4 comedy series The Sunday Format, his 2011–2018 lead role as Tim on the BBC sitcom TV series Not Going Out (alongside Lee Mack), and his 2017–2020 BBC TV game-show Tim Vine Travels Through Time. He married American homemaker Allyson Vine in 2003, and the couple has one daughter.
His name Tim is the English short form of Timothy (from the Greek Timotheos meaning "honoring God"). Tim was a popular American boys' name through the mid-to-late 20th century.
About the name Tim
Gender: Male · Origin: English
Variant Of Timothy One Who Honors God.