Jimmy Cricket
| Jimmy Cricket | |
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| Born | James Mulgrew 17 October 1945 Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland) |
| Occupation | Comedian |
Jimmy Cricket (born James Mulgrew 17 October 1945 in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland) is a comedian. He currently lives with his family in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England.
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[edit] Early life and career
He left school at 16 and spent the next two years working in a betting shop, before spending the summer of 1966 working as a Red Coat in Butlins Holiday camp at Mosney, County Meath, Ireland. He spent the following two summers at the Butlins Holiday Camp in Clacton. By the early 1970s he was living in Manchester. From 1972 he worked at the Pontins holiday camps in Southport and Morecambe. He returned to Clacton-on-Sea in 2006 to star in the eight week summer show, Summer Special, at the West Cliff Theatre.
[edit] Television
He was given his own TV series on a show called And There's More produced by Central Television (also notable for including the first TV appearance by Rory Bremner). He also had his own radio series for BBC Radio 2. He featured in The Krankies Klub alongside The Krankies and Bobby Davro. He also appeared on the Royal Variety Show in 1984.
Cricket was one of a number of veteran performers to appear in the video for the 2007 Comic Relief single, a cover of The Proclaimers song "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by Matt Lucas as Andy Pipkin and Peter Kay as Brian Potter.
[edit] Style
Cricket's humour is entirely clean, in marked contrast to some other comedians. A popular theme of his comedy is Irish logic, and the ubiquitous letter from his "Mammy". He almost always appears in his trademark outfit of cut-off evening trousers, dinner jacket, hat (given to him by the BBC to wear on The Good Old Days) and wellies marked "L" and "R" for left and right, but worn on the wrong feet.
[edit] Personal life
Jimmy Cricket is a supporter of the Happy Faces Charity.
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