Lee Mack
- 56 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
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Gold reveals Britain's Greatest Comedian list
Channel Gold has revealed the shortlist of 30 comedians who will be featured in its show Britain's Greatest Comedian.
British Comedy Guide, 1st May 2019Review - Not Going Out: zinger after zinger
Ten series in, the jokes are still rapid and the wit still biting in Lee Mack's winning sitcom.
Sarah Carson, i Newspaper, 22nd April 2019A new series begins with Lee, family and friends waiting to make a sponsored parachute jump to raise money for a children's hospital ward. But, as it turns out, one parachute is missing - who will provide the best excuse to stay behind? A little comic masterpiece of cowardice that is worthy of Hancock's Half Hour.
Ali Catterall, The Guardian, 15th April 2019Not Going Out: series 10 review
It's in a different phase of its life but it's still much the same.
Jacob Gibbs, On The Box, 15th April 2019BAFTA TV Awards nominations
Derry Girls, Mum, Sally4Ever, Stath Lets Flats and Car Share are amongst the comedy-related nominations in the 2019 BAFTA TV Awards and BAFTA Craft Awards.
British Comedy Guide, 28th March 2019Comedians to watch football for Sky One
Sky One has ordered an eight-part comedy series called Comedians Watching Football With Friends. The episodes will star comedians including Jon Richardson, Lee Mack and Josh Widdicombe.
British Comedy Guide, 13th February 2019Semi-Detached review
Semi-Detached is not anything new or game-changing, but it is an incredibly confident and funny comedy, and the real-time gimmick gives it an energy and a forward pace that many sitcoms lack.
Reece Goodall, The Boar, 13th January 2019TV: Semi-Detached, BBC2
After his foray into live sitcom with Not Going Out just before Christmas Lee Mack is back in sitcomland with this all-star fast-paced one-off pilot in which the twist is that everything happens in real time.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 6th January 2019Semi-Detached review
The first sitcom pilot of the year stars Lee Mack in this real-time story set over one man's terrible half-hour (although the pilot's only 20 minutes long).
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 6th January 2019Semi-Detached review
There may be questions over whether the furious pace can be sustained for the extra 50 per cent running time required for the traditional BBC sitcom half-hour. Or indeed whether such maelstroms of mayhem can be conjured up week after week. But this is a promising germ for that holy grail of comedy commissioners everywhere: a mainstream suburban sitcom that doesn't suck.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 5th January 2019