It would be easy to paint comedian Jimmy Rees as an accidental star of the pandemic – the children’s entertainer who pulled together a funny video or two, stuck them on YouTube and found overnight success. But to do that would be to sell Rees short. Like countless other instant sensations, the 35-year-old has been working for a while.
For 10 years he was Jimmy Giggle, a regular feature in the lounge rooms of anyone with young children as he laughed and sang along with his owl puppet mate Hoot and other assorted friends on the ABC show,. His wide appeal to young and old saw him recruited to Seven’s in 2019. He did Carols by Candlelight, toured a live stage version of his show and in 2020 was set to tour nationally to farewell the TV series
