Jim Smith is a Perthshire Beef and Sheep Farmer and Stand Up Comedian - not a combination you'll see everyday mind. He lives and works on his very real family farm in Caputh near Perth and when he's not lambing, feeding the coos or shoveling you know what, he's selling out comedy venues across Scotland.
He first got into comedy writing when he was a member of a Young Farmers club doing panto and found their bought-in script needed tweaking with local, more rural jokes.
He got the taste for comedy, began performing on the stand up circuit and made short videos for BBC Scotland's comedy strand Short Stuff. The character of Farmer Jim, largely a caricature of himself and other farmers he knows, would eventually become a TV series called The Farm, alongside Chris Forbes, who plays the rural cop in Scot Squad and achieved his own cult status as the other Murray brother.
