Julian Lee
Press clippings
Julian Lee releases book, Jokebox
The Newcastle comedian releases his one-liner filled jokebook.
Caitlin Disken, Narc Magazine, 1st April 2021Julian Lee wins UK Pun Off
Julian Lee has been crowned winner of the UK Pun Off at the Leicester Comedy Festival.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th February 2021Leicester Comedy Festival review: UK Pun Championships
Eight comedians battled to be named UK Pun Champion.
Becky Jones, Leicester Mercury, 13th February 2018Review: UK Pun Championships Final
#UKPunday, founded by the Leicester Comedy Festival, has become a fixture in the social media calender. This year wordplay-based tweets notched up over 100 million impressions during the day. That's a lorra lorra lols. And sometimes during the final of the UK Pun Championships one did feel the best gags had already been hashtag cracked.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 13th February 2018The best - and the worst - from the UK Pun Championship
Welcome to the punderdome! In what's taken off as a great marketing gimmick - with #ukpunday trending across Twitter yesterday - eight pun-dits gather at the Leicester Comedy Festival for the closest that word nerds get to sports. One-on-one in a boxing ring they exchange pun-ches in a bid to take the UK Pun Championship.
Chortle, 13th February 2018Leicester Comedy Festival 2018 competition line-ups
The line-ups for the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, The UK Pun Championships and The Silver Stand Up Competition - all due to take place as part of the Leicester Comedy Festival 2018 - have been announced.
British Comedy Guide, 21st December 2017Review: The UK Pun Championships
Wordplay galore as jokesmiths battle for title.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 15th February 2017Live Review, UK Pun Championships Final
This year's UK Pun Championships Final went the full WWF. Barpaga was duly crowned Pun Champion 2017 and he certainly deserved it - though not necessarily for his final joke.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th February 2017Julian Lee: some topics are too difficult to address
We can't all be honest in our comedy.
Julian Lee, Chortle, 13th August 2016