Jim Tavare discovered that he is indeed funny when he was eight years old. He stood in front of the mirror and realized how ridiculous he looks like. His first solo gig as a stand-up comedian was in the comedy bar The Tunnel Club in East London. He considers Peter Cook, Tommy Cooper, Victor Borge, Mitch Hedberg, Steven Wright, Woody Allen as his major influences in making other people laugh. According to Jim Tavare, his worst nightmare as a comic is to do a gig in a far land such as Siberia, with an interpreter standing next to him and each joke would take him forever to translate while the audience still won’t budge to laugh. This actually happened to him in 2005, when he attended an arts festival in Khanty Mansiisk, Siberia.
Jim Tavare is one of the finalists of the Last Comic Standing, a reality talent show on NBC searching for the funniest and wackiest stand-up comedian in the country. The winner shall receive a contract with NBC Universal and a Bravo Special.