Jimmy Cricket

James Mulgrew (born 17 October 1945), known professionally as Jimmy Cricket, is a Northern Irish comedian.

He has also toured in comedy themed shows with Cannon and Ball, Paul Daniels, Frank Carson and The Krankies.

He has featured on numerous occasions the BBC TVs long running TV show The Good Old Days Jimmy appeared on Bullseye in 1984, scoring 125 with nine darts for charity.

[citation needed] Cricket was one of a number of performers to appear in the video for the 2007 Comic Relief single, a cover of The Proclaimers' song "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by Matt Lucas as Andy Pipkin and Peter Kay as Brian Potter.

Frankie has since become ordained as a Catholic priest and published his first book, Does God LOL?, in June 2013 and his second, Miracles Of Grace in 2020.

On 18 September 2015 it was announced that he had been awarded a papal knighthood (Order of St. Gregory the Great) by Pope Francis for his charity work.