Tom Keith

Jim Ed was said to have grown up in West St. Paul Minnesota and graduated from Henry Sibley High School. Keith was one of the primary sound effects performers for the Prairie Home Companion radio show and was often an actor in sketches written by Keillor.

Thomas Alan Keith (December 21 1946 – October 30 2011) was a radio personality who worked for Minnesota Public Radio in St. On October 15 2008 Keith announced his intention to retire on December 11. Paul Tom Keith continued to play Jim Ed who lived in the Hotel Transom with his pet chicken Curtis.