Two Tims.

I watch enough TV (by which I mean "download enough TV" - it's so cute that some people watch actual televisions!) that the idea of having a favourite TV person is almost inconceivable. At any point in the last couple of days, this could have been Landry from Friday Night Lights (Christian speed-metal! Ironic football referee!), or Locke (IT'S BACK!), or Charlie Brooker (the man who thousands would love to be but will never admit it). Still, I think I've settled on someone - someone who I love in a fiercely heterosexual way.

Tim Key is a "poet", by which I mean he isn't a poet. Yes, he writes poems, but they're deadpan, ironic, terrible poems, played for laughs. He's plied his verse on Charlie Brooker's shows, on Mark Watson's wonderful radio series, and most recently on Twitter. The poems themselves are always hilarious, taking the piss out of poetry itself while also somehow loving it too. Of course, he wouldn't be a good fake poet if he wasn't a good comedian: anyone who's seen Time Trumpet will remember him in the "Cilla Black autopsy" and "Eastenders green-screen" sketches, and there's this other show I'll get to in a minute. In both worlds, Key's humour comes from subtlety. Tiny turns of phrase, glances, mistakes ridden out, smiles. It's such a unique and versatile style, and it's brilliant to see in a time when great comedians seem to get a bit stuck in fashionable ruts (awkward social comedy, docudrama, "dark" sitcom, etc.).

Then there's the huge concern of We Need Answers, the Mark Watson-fronted BBC4 comedy quiz, with Key as question-master, that's doing its best to convince the bravely battling but terminally ill Shooting Stars that it can just let go ("I'm gonna be alright, dad. I can support the family. You just sleep now"). It's a sign of how fresh and fun We Need Answers is that its online sister-show is possibly even better - No More Women is a genuine revelation. It's a game invented by Key and Watson, and since seeing it for the first time I've introduced it to everyone I possibly can. Normally when I try to foist a fun activity on other people, they humour me for a while before getting bored. With No More Women, people who even overhear me tutoring a newbie insist on getting a game going. The online episodes, commentated on by WNA's technical maestro Alex Horne, are both entertaining and a rich source of gameplay tips. I may never make a stronger recommendation on this blog: get into No More Women. It will enrich your bus journeys, your drinking sessions, your country walks. It's great.

On a related note, I must mention another Tim, who's a good friend of mine and an eminently followable Tweeter. He went to see We Need Answers being filmed recently. He seemed to have fun, look!

Hello, Tim!