Jimmy Cricket
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Jimmy Cricket (real name James Mulgrew), is a comedian, born in Cookstown, Northern Ireland.
He left school at 16 and spent the next two years working in a betting shop, before spending the summer of 1966 working as a Red Coat in Butlins Holiday camp at Mosney, County Meath. He spent the following two summers at the Butlins Holiday Camp in Clacton. By the early 1970s he was living in Manchester. Starting in 1972 he worked at the Pontins holiday camps in Southport and Morecambe. He returned to Clacton-on-Sea in 2006 to star in the eight week summer show, Summer Special, at the West Cliff Theatre.
Eventually he had his own TV series on Central Television and his own radio series for BBC Radio 2. He also featured in The Krankies Klub alongside The Krankies and Bobby Davro. His ITV show And There's More gave Rory Bremner his first TV appearance.
Cricket's humour is entirely clean, in marked contrast to some other Irish comedians. A popular theme of his comedy is Irish logic, and the ubiquitous letter from his "Mammy". He almost always appears in his trademark outfit of cut-off evening trousers, tuxedo, hat and wellies marked "L" and "R" for left and right, but worn on the wrong feet.
