Jimmy Cricket is teaming up with fellow comedian Alfie Joey for a performance in South Shields this spring.
Northern Irish entertainment legend Jimmy and BBC Radio Newcastle breakfast presenter Alfie pair will feature in the aptly named ‘Jimmy and Alfie’ show at the Customs House Theatre on Saturday 10 May.
The South Shields Gazette recently published a newspaper article (right) about the gig, entitled “And there’s more for the whole family”.
Jimmy said: “A big thanks to senior reporter Vicki Newman for this great write-up.”
The newspaper’s website also has a story about the show in which Alfie – who can also seen in BBC Two sitcom, Hebburn – says: “Jimmy and myself became pals in quite an unusual way.
“I had trained to become a priest and left to become a comedian, and his son, the comedian Frankie Doodle, was a comedian and gave it up to become a priest. He’s Fr Frank Mulgrew now.
“People said we’d been through the same thing, just in the opposite direction, and we got talking, and I realised who his dad was.
“I ended up being invited to Jimmy’s 60th birthday party and became a family friend, and we’ve done a few gigs before, but this will be the first one that’s just me and him.”
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