Lee Mack
- 56 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
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Lee Mack reveals cocaine-induced cleaning obsession
Comic Lee Mack has revealed that the first time he experimented with drugs - taking cocaine at his best friend's stag do - he became obsessed with cleaning a kitchen, even putting on an apron and Marigolds.
Andy Halls, The Sun, 15th April 2021A new series of Taskmaster began, which has every promise to match the highs of the last. Chief among the promiseers in series 11 is Sarah Kendall, the driest of Aussies, yet we also have grumpy Jamali Maddix, Lee Mack and the like, and the mix works (again) wonderfully well, crushing together those who will solve an impossible problem in methodical fashion and those who will throw proven natural laws to all 13 winds. Trapping a giant motorised rat in a net from three metres away, conveying 24 unbroken dinner plates on a hoverboard through a hangar, inviting a helium balloon to behave - never mind Taskmaster, this should be the primary task for all diplomats and wannabe 007s. As ever, creator Alex Horne and Taskmaster Greg Davies fashion great humour from abject failure. I think Greg's resolutely kind demolition of Charlotte Ritchie - "you didn't think your left hand was for anything?" - represents a touchstone in anthropology.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 21st March 2021Taskmaster review
As easy as keeping a cushion spinning on a finger.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 19th March 2021TV review: Taskmaster, Series 11, Episode 1
This opening episode was one of the strongest out of all of them, and I'd be amazed if by the end this wasn't seen as one of the best, right up their with series 5 and 7.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 19th March 2021Lee Mack's new game show The 1% Club shelved
Lee Mack's new game show The 1% Club has been shelved, plunging ITV scheduling into chaos. The eight planned episodes are still on ice due to the pandemic, leaving ITV bosses with a scheduling headache.
Andy Halls, The Sun, 28th February 2021Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020 winners
After Life, Staged, Horrible Histories, Would I Lie To You?, Taskmaster and Inside No. 9 have won prizes in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020. Radio 4 comedies Michael Spicer: Before Next Door, Dead Ringers, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and Joe Lycett's Obsessions have also won.
British Comedy Guide, 8th February 2021'Murder, They Hope' cast revealed
Sarah Hadland, Shobna Gulati, Lee Mack, Paul Whitehouse and Jason Manford will be amongst the cast joining Johnny Vegas and Sian Gibson in the new Gold series Murder, They Hope.
British Comedy Guide, 5th February 2021Bobby Ball's character to have funeral in Not Going Out
Tommy Cannon is being invited to play the priest at the funeral of Bobby Ball's character in comedy Not Going Out.
Andy Halls, The Sun, 29th January 2021Review: Not Going Out
Well I guess if one sitcom title sums up 2020 it's this one. And they've given us a sort of socially distanced lockdown episode to see out the old year and see in the new (albeit a day early) with the entire cast including Bobby Ball all in one room throughout the special.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th December 2020Not Going Out Christmas special review
Old-school festive chuckles, with the late Bobby Ball as cheeky as ever.
Catherine Pearson, Radio Times, 30th December 2020