Lee Nelson's Well Good Show

...I can't see much evidence that Pete and Dud have influenced the creator of Lee Nelson's Well Good Show, though it's abundantly clear that Ali G should be paying some form of child support, since Lee's persona, a breezily amoral Sarf London scally, owes quite a lot to Sacha Baron Cohen's invention. When he's working the studio audience, Taylor can be funny and fast on his feet, offering examples of his chat-up style to a pretty girl on the front row ("You're the best-looking girl I've ever seen... in your category") and protesting at his social worker's suggestion that he's implicated in his six-year- old son's behaviour problems ("How could it be my fault for fuck's sake... I'm hardly ever there!"). The sketch material is a bit more uneven though. He has an entertainingly dim Premier League footballer called Jason Bent ("Yeah... footballers do get paid more than the average wage... But without footballers the average wage would be a lot lower, so we're actually doing people a favour"), but the foreign doctor gag is Chuckle Brothers stuff. He needs a Dud to help him carry the weight.

Lee Nelson's Well Good Show review

Overall, Lee Nelson's Well Good Show isn't that great, but enough of the show relies on Simon Brodkin's skills as a live performer to pull it through the comedy quicksand. The sketches and games aren't offensively bad, they're just relatively weak and employ obvious material.

Lee Nelson's Well Good Show review

Lee Nelson's Well Good Show: a case of shameless false advertising for this new BBC comedy. The show suffers from an over reliance on audience banter, which often resorts in mocking people who have taken time out of their day to watch.

Already commissioned for a series (unfortunately) is Lee Nelson's Well Good Show, a new comedy which is, well, bad. It's written and performed by stand-up Simon Brodkin, whose character Nelson is a cross between Marvin from BBC Scotland's The Scheme and 1980's Loadsamoney.

Lee says his catchphrase - "Qualiteeee!" - a lot, and makes the forbearing audience join in some stupid antics. For instance, a young man is ordered to choose from an array of girls with their backs to him. One is revealed to be a man with long hair, another - oh the horror! - is old, etc.

The show seems convinced that old people are intrinsically funny, it also features a lady taking her teeth out and gurning, and the regular big finale is his "nan" singing karaoke.

It's meant to be ironic, of course, but that's a feeble excuse for such an unoriginal and hopelessly unamusing embarrassment.

Lee Nelson's Well Good Show was actually well good, ish

Stand-up comedian Simon Brodkin has brought mouthy chav Lee Nelson to BBC3 and his gormless charm is hard to repel.

Lee Nelson on Lee, Omelette, his Nan and Jason Bent

My name is Lee Nelson and I'm a massive legend. I live in London and I got my own TV show called Lee Nelson's Well Good Show.