Funnyman Jimmy Cricket relives over half a century of making people laugh as he chats to Jenny Lee about his Northern Irish roots, Frank Carson and May McFettridge and reveals just how his famous ...

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COMEDIAN Jimmy Cricket may have embraced new technology and dabble with Twitter but the traditional funnyman still prefers a letter from his "mammy". The 67-year-old comedy icon will appear at ...

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That he tried his best is the way comedian Jimmy Cricket would like to be remembered. The star of multiple television and radio shows who first came to prominence in the 1970s will mark his 80th ...

JOIN JIMMY AT THE ROYAL COURT THEATRE IN BACUP, AS HE TAKES YOU ON A WHIMSICAL JOURNEY TO A LAND OF SIDE SPLITTING ONE LINERS. ALONG THE WAY HE’LL BE SINGING, DANCING AND READING “A LETTER FROM HIS ...

LAUGHTER will ensure there won't be a dry eye in the house when Jimmy Cricket returns to the panto stage at the Charter Theatre in Preston next month - 33 years on from his debut at the same venue.

Jimmy Cricket left school at 16 and spent the next two years working in a betting shop, before spending joining Butlin’s holiday camp in Mosney, Co Meath, in 1966. He worked as a Red Coat entertainer ...