This star comic is a graduate of the holiday camps and the northern club and pub circuit developing his very individual act. His break came as a finalist in the TV talent show 'Search For A Star'.

TV producers were not the only ones taking note Jimmy cricket appeared in the ITV's Royal Gala Show 'Night Of A Hundred Stars' from the National Theatre. He now became a regular on TV and radio.

He had four TV series and Five Radio series. Jimmy is still honing and fine tuning his act adding fresh material. His live act is renowned for its entertainment as an all round first class family show.

Jimmy was born in Cookstown, Northern Ireland, into an Irish family of four brothers and one sister, whose father was an undertaker. hE left school at sixteen and spent his first two years in the big wide world working at a betting shop, before graduating to the Butlin’s Holiday camp at Mosney, County Meath, for the Summer Season of 1966 working as a Red Coat for three meals a day and £6.00 a week!

Over the next few years Jimmy, by then living in the city of Manchester, spent the long days between infrequent engagements as a door-to-door salesman around the pubs and clubs of the North.

Jimmy and May married in 1974 and now have two sons and two daughters, Dale, Frank, Jamie, Katie and they reside in Rochdale, within an earshot of where Dame Gracie Fields lived.