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Lee Mack
English
Comedian
Born:
Aug 4
,
1968
About
Comedian
Comedy
People
Think
You
I talk a lot when I'm nervous.
Lee Mack
Nervous
Talk
Lot
I don't look at comedy as a sliding scale of offensiveness.
Lee Mack
Comedy
Sliding
Scale
Look
I don't understand why you would want to watch someone giving birth.
Lee Mack
You
Giving
Birth
Would
Someone
Understand
Want
Why
Watch
When I was little, I used to get a comic - 'Cheeky Weekly' - which was a weekly comic whose main character was Cheeky. I used to get 'Roy of the Rovers,' too.
Lee Mack
Character
Too
Weekly
Main
Main Character
Cheeky
Comic
Get
Which
Little
Used
Whose
Roy
I'm not a comedian who wants to spend far too long on stage.
Lee Mack
Long
Stage
Too
Spend
Comedian
Wants
Far
Who
I know comedians who go on weird day trips in order to have random experiences they can talk about. They'll go on their own to Thorpe Park waiting for something hilarious to happen. That's really sad.
Lee Mack
Sad
Day
Waiting
Random
Hilarious
Own
Thorpe
About
Trips
Something
Park
Weird
Know
Comedians
Talk
Go
Order
Experiences
Happen
Really
Who
The default position now is that comedians do Twitter but I don't know why. Every bad story you see about a comedian has a connection to Twitter.
Lee Mack
You
Every
Twitter
Bad
See
About
Comedian
Know
Comedians
Story
Connection
Now
Why
Default
Position
Looking back at my school reports, I start off as quite a swotty kid, and then when I get to 12 or 13, my teachers start saying: 'Lee has started to joke around a lot in class.' After that, it's a steady graph of decline, with the jokes increasing and increasing.
Lee Mack
Saying
Class
Jokes
School
Joke
Looking
Looking Back
Increasing
Back
Kid
Steady
Around
Lee
Lot
Off
Get
Reports
Quite
After
Decline
Then
Teachers
Graph
Start
Started
We have all said things that are offensive when taken out of context. You don't need to tell the public to be repelled. They will tell you they are repelled.
Lee Mack
You
Will
Out
Tell
Taken
Said
Context
Repelled
Offensive
Public
Things
Need
I've never been able to keep my finger on the pulse of fashion.
Lee Mack
Fashion
Pulse
Able
Finger
Never
Been
Keep
If it's not a film in which Harrison Ford's wife is being kidnapped, I'm not interested; he's my hero.
Lee Mack
Wife
Hero
Kidnapped
He
Ford
Being
Not Interested
Which
Interested
Film
Everyone told me that British sitcom was dead. Then I looked at 'Seinfeld' and 'Frasier' and thought, ‘No it's not, it just needs more gags.'
Lee Mack
Needs
Me
Thought
Everyone
More
Seinfeld
Looked
Dead
Sitcom
Just
Then
British
Comics were always the lowest rung on the ladder, front of cloth at the Royal Variety Performance. What that means is you're only there so Take That can set up behind the curtains.
Lee Mack
You
Ladder
Rung
Only
Variety
Take
Performance
Always
Comics
Were
Up
Front
Behind
Cloth
Curtains
Means
Lowest
Royal
Set
I could have done a night at the O2 in London, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I'm not being big-headed, but for my act I can't be talking to an audience of 12,000 people. There's no intimacy.
Lee Mack
Myself
People
Intimacy
London
Could
Talking
Audience
Done
Being
Act
Bring
Night
I can remember weird things from way back, but not what I had for breakfast.
Lee Mack
Remember
Breakfast
Back
Way
I Can
Had
Weird
Weird Things
Things
I was 38 when 'Not Going Out' began, and I was playing a 34-year-old who had a thing about his landlady.
Lee Mack
Out
About
Had
His
Began
Going
Landlady
Who
Thing
Playing
I'm a huge fan of stuff like 'Planet Earth' and the American sitcom 'Everybody Loves Raymond.'
Lee Mack
Everybody
Earth
Raymond
Stuff
Like
Huge
Huge Fan
Sitcom
American
Fan
Loves
Planet
Planet Earth
Loads of blokes think they're funny, but it counts for nothing unless you get up and have a go.
Lee Mack
Funny
You
Nothing
Think
Unless
Counts
Go
Up
Get
Loads
I'm terrified of flying and have tried everything from prescription drugs to booze and herbal remedies. The only thing that works is Valium. I don't know why I'm so frightened - I think it's from seeing my mum freak out when I was young.
Lee Mack
Young
Think
Everything
I Think
Flying
Out
Booze
Tried
Freak
Seeing
Only
Remedies
Know
Terrified
Frightened
The Only Thing
Works
Mum
Why
Prescription
Thing
Prescription Drugs
It's much harder to have a BBC One sitcom than to have a tour of stand-up.
Lee Mack
BBC
Tour
Than
Sitcom
Much
Harder
In British sitcoms, you can get five minutes of nothing before the story starts.
Lee Mack
You
Before
Nothing
Starts
Minutes
Five
Get
Sitcoms
Story
British
I never have fixed subjects that I discuss on stage. I never go on with any particular subjects in mind.
Lee Mack
Mind
Stage
Never
Particular
Go
Subjects
Discuss
Fixed
Any
My kids would say I'm strict, but I don't think I am.
Lee Mack
I Am
Strict
Think
Say
Kids
Would
Am
The problem isn't that there's not enough women in panel games. The problem is there's not enough women in comedy in general.
Lee Mack
Women
Problem
Comedy
Enough
Panel
General
Games
I don't know the statistics, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that a disproportionate number of comics come from broken homes.
Lee Mack
Broken
Out
Statistics
Find
Come
Know
Comics
Surprised
Homes
Disproportionate
Number
The rules of comedy are, don't complain, it's a brilliant job. You complain, and you're seen as losing touch with reality.
Lee Mack
You
Reality
Comedy
Losing
Brilliant
Job
Seen
Complain
Rules
Touch
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