So this bloke came up to me and said, "Describe Tim Vine here," and I said, "Tim Vine is a British stand-up comedian who has gained considerable renown for his mastery of the pun. His entire act consists almost entirely of him standing up and delivering a stream of [[IncrediblyLamePun groan-worthy]] yet somehow amusing plays on words, with the occasional comedy song or another strange interlude, often featuring cheap-looking stage props that he plausibly claims to have made himself."

Timothy Mark Vine (born 4 March 1967) is also known for starring alongside Creator/LeeMack in the sitcom ''Series/NotGoingOut'', and for hosting the Creator/{{ITV}} GameShow ''Don't Blow the Inheritance''. He was also a part of the five-person comedian cast of ''Series/TheSketchShow'', made a pilot and a Christmas episode of ''Tim Vine Travels in Time'', and was one of the contestants of [[Recap/TaskmasterSeriesSix Series Six]] of ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}''. He is also the younger brother of journalist, Radio 2 presenter and Series/{{Eggheads}} host Jeremy Vine.
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!!This performer provides examples of:
%%* BreadEggsMilkSquick: "Alarm Bells". The song also demonstrates RuleOfThree.
* CannotTellAJoke: Tim has featured a section in his act where he asks the audience for subjects and then attempts to improvise a joke around them. These inevitably become desperate, rambling monologues, the punchline being when he gives up entirely and asks for some different subjects.
* CatchPhrase: Arguably, "so..." which is how many of his jokes start. He likely uses it because so few of his jokes relate to the others. If you wanted to extend it, you could argue that "so (person X) came up to me", "so I said to this bloke" (which was actually the title of one of his [=DVDs=]) and "so I went to the doctor's/airport/watch shop/wherever" are also catchphrases.
** Also possibly "Come ''on!''" when he wants the audience to react.
* EscalatingPunchline: "Ventriloquism". He's been practising ventriloquism and has a puppet who practises ventriloquism who has a puppet that practises ventriloquism who has a puppet that practises ventriloquism... And so on until the last one says it practises [[spoiler:juggling.]]
* GenreThrowback: It's unclear whether this is intentional, but he comes off as though he's stepped out of vaudeville.
%%* HurricaneOfPuns: Songs aside, virtually ''his entire act''.
%%* HypocriticalHumour: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmEwd4I-q30 The Importance of Rehearsal]].
* IncrediblyLamePun: His primary source of amusement; many of his jokes consist of a series of rapid-fire puns, with some of his best ones tending to be those with a reasonably solid internal logic.
* LiteralMinded: The source of a lot of his puns. "I had to sell my vacuum cleaner - well, it was just gathering dust."
* LuckBasedMission: ''Fluke'', the Channel 4 game show he devised and presented. It tested the contestants' luck and absolutely nothing else.
* OverlyLongGag: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pwbQvJDFzQ Pen Behind the Ear]].
* PungeonMaster: Perhaps the finest example of this trope in modern times.
* RapidFireComedy: Vine used to hold the Guinness World Record for Most Jokes Told in an Hour.
** He appeared on a celebrity edition of ''Series/FortBoyard'' and won his team's charity a big bonus by telling 20 jokes in one minute.
* SelfDeprecation: Some jokes:
--> I went into a mirror shop and I said to the bloke behind the counter, "I want to buy a mirror, you tall blond idiot." He said "I'm over here, sir."
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Probably the silliest it's possible for ''anything'' to ever get.
* SmallReferencePools: Tim Vine is a victim of this. Many of his jokes have been wrongly attributed to Creator/TommyCooper.
* SoUnfunnyItsFunny: The "funny" anecdotes in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQOOHsIO2Mc Family Holidays]]".
* SurrealHumour: The setups of some of his puns are strange enough to turn the jokes into this. For example:
--> I was in a restaurant and a duck came up to me and said, "Your eyes sparkle like the morning dew." I said, "Waiter, I asked for ''aromatic'' duck."
* TickTockTune: "My Marvellous Metronome" is a parody of this. Tim's electronic metronome keeps speeding up until his singing can't keep up with the beat.
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