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Tim FitzHigham FRSA FRGS, an award-winning British comedian, author, artist and world record holder. The feats he has performed include paddling a paper boat down 160 miles of the River Thames, rowing a bathtub across the English Channel, and inflating the world's largest balloon. ==Career== FitzHigham began telling funny stories in a rum shop in the West Indies while working as a pig farmer, this may have been the beginnings of his work as a stand-up comedian. Back in the UK in 1999, he performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with James Carey and Jonny Saunders in "Infinite Number of Monkeys - Sketch Comedy of Hypotheticals", where he was nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award (now the Edinburgh Comedy Award) for best newcomer.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Best Newcomers )〕 In 2000 he established Infinite Number of Monkeys as a production company and in the same year won a Spirit of the Fringe Award.〔 His live shows, with topics ranging from the Karma Sutra to Morris Dancing, have been made Critic’s Choice in various newspapers, including ''The Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, The Observer, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, The Evening Standard, Time Out'' and ''Metro''. The shows he has performed include ''Don Quixote'', in which he attempted to live like a medieval knight errant in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of the novel ''Don Quixote''. When he appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4's ''The Museum of Curiosity'', he donated the novel ''Don Quixote'' to the museum. Eventually it was decided that Don Quixote would be better suited as the security guard on the museum steps where he could do less damage. In putting together his shows FitzHigham has sustained a staggering amount of physical injuries. In 2011, he was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2012, he was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Act Most Likely to Make a Million Quid Award at the Edinburgh Fringe.〔http://www.malcolmhardee.co.uk/award〕 In 2013 he presented CBBC science show Super Human Challenge. His live show about historical Gambling has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 as a series called ''Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler''. The pilot episode involved a bet from 1753 and his nemesis Alex Horne.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pilot episode )〕 The Gambler is now in its second series on BBC Radio 4.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler )〕 Alex Horne and Tim have a long standing wager concerning who can live the longest of the two of them, Tim is currently winning by two years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tim FitzHigham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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