‘A very happy 80th birthday to the legend of laughter, Jimmy Cricket!’
Hundreds of people have been congratulating comedian Jimmy Cricket on his 80th birthday.
The well-known entertainer celebrated the memorable milestone on Friday.
And his friends and followers took to social media to pass on their best wishes on the big day.
Among them was musician Andy Eastwood who appears in variety shows with Jimmy.
Andy said: “A very happy 80th birthday to the legend of laughter Jimmy Cricket!! 
“And there’s more… we look forward to our show with you at the Spa Theatre Bridlington in March! X.”
Many more people will show their affection for Jimmy at his Big Birthday Gala Show at The Lowry on 1 November.
Tim Vine, Roy Walker, Barbara Nice, Syd Little and Steve Royle are among the entertainers performing at the Salford venue.
Northern Irish funnyman Adrian Walsh and Jimmy’s daughter, Katie Mulgrew, complete the talented line-up – as well as the birthday boy himself, of course!
Jimmy was born James Mulgrew on October 17 1945 in Cookstown, Northern Ireland.
He left school at 16 years of age and worked for the next two years in a betting shop.
He then spent the summer of 1966 working as a Redcoat in Butlin’s holiday camp at Mosney, County Meath.
And that was followed by two more summers at the Butlin’s holiday camp in Clacton.
By the early 1970s, he was living in Manchester and from 1972 worked at the Pontins holiday camps in Southport and Morecambe.
He won LWT’s talent contest Search For A Star and was later given his own series on Central Television in the mid-1980s called And There’s More.
Also read from this website: Jimmy Cricket is ‘friendly and funny… a great, old-school comic’!
