Lee Cornes

Lee Cornes adalah aktor dan penulis televisi Inggris yang lahir di Worcester. Seorang stand up comedian sejak tahun 1980, dia menjadi pembawa acara tetap di Comedy Store London sepanjang tahun 1980-an dan memenangkan Stand Up Comedian terbaik di Charrington London Fringe Awards pada tahun 1987. Cornes muncul dalam tiga seri Blackadder, dalam dua episode The Young Ones dan sebagai bartender 'Dick Head' di acara TV Bottom. Dia muncul di episode pertama Filthy, Rich & Catflap sebagai binman. Muncul di Komik Strip episode "Slags". Penampilan di Saturday Night Live. Cornes juga membintangi drama anak-anak Grange Hill sebagai Mr. Jeff Hankin (1990–2002); mengisi suara untuk karakter dalam serial televisi anak-anak TUGS, dan ditampilkan dalam cerita Doctor Who "Kinda" sebagai Trickster (1982). Dia muncul di Red Dwarf sebagai Paranoia dalam serial satu episode "Confidence and Paranoia". Dia juga muncul beberapa kali di sitkom BBC Skotlandia Rab C. Nesbitt, sekali sebagai Petugas DSS dan sekali lagi sebagai bartender di sebuah pub Highland. Dia memainkan peran utama sebagai agen bakat yang dilecehkan Dickie Valentino dalam film komedi improvisasi sebagian tahun 1994 There's No Business..., bersama duo komedi Raw Sex (Simon Brint dan Rowland Rivron) dan The Oblivion Boys (Stephen Frost dan Mark Arden). Dia muncul di video S Club Juniors tahun 2002 "One Step Closer." Pada bulan November 2010 ia muncul sebagai Dave di Episode 6 komedi E4 Phoneshop. Dia muncul sebagai Tooting Flasher di pilot Toast of London karya Matt Berry. Muncul di Keramaian. Juga tampil di French dan Saunders, The Lenny Henry Show, The Detectives, After You've Gone, dan My Family. Penampilan panggung termasuk The Warp karya Ken Campbell di Liverpool Everyman, beberapa peran di Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. Figaro di The Watford Palace Theatre, serta peran pantomim. Rekan penulis dan pemain The WOW Show di Wyndham's Theatre. Dia melakukan tur ke Inggris bersama Neal dari Young Ones. Cornes adalah salah satu penulis utama untuk Mr Bean, The Animated Series, dan penulis di Cavegirl dan Channel 4's Gophers!. Dia adalah salah satu penulis serial animasi Channel 4 The Bird, dan penulis/pencerita di What's Up Doc?, seorang penulis dan pemain di After Hours di Thames TV dan penulis bersama di dua seri The WOW Show di Radio 4. Dia telah muncul di berbagai acara televisi anak-anak seperti My Parents are Aliens, Bear Behaving Badly, Jackanory. Dalam wawancara tahun 2010 di The Times, Cornes disebut-sebut sebagai salah satu pengaruh komedi terbesar rekan komedian Sean Lock. Lock berkata: "Dia tidak terlalu terkenal tetapi dia adalah pengaruh utama saya - dia biasa berkompetisi di Toko Komedi. Dia adalah komedian para komedian. Dia dulunya sangat tidak dapat diprediksi, yang merupakan keterampilan hebat dalam seorang komedian, tidak tahu ke mana harus pergi selanjutnya. Dia juga pernah berperan sebagai guru fisika di Grange Hill."

Lee Cornes is an English television actor and writer born in Worcester. A stand up comedian since 1980, he was a regular compere at London's Comedy Store throughout the 1980s and won best Stand Up Comedian at the Charrington London Fringe Awards in 1987. Cornes appeared in three series of Blackadder, in two episodes of The Young Ones and as barman 'Dick Head' in the TV show Bottom. He made an appearance in the first episode of Filthy, Rich & Catflap as a binman. Appeared in the Comic Strip episode "Slags". Appearances on Saturday Night Live. Cornes also starred in children's drama Grange Hill as Mr. Jeff Hankin (1990–2002); provided voices for characters in the children's television series TUGS, and featured in the Doctor Who story "Kinda" as the Trickster (1982). He appeared in Red Dwarf as Paranoia in the series one episode "Confidence and Paranoia". He also appeared several times in the BBC Scotland sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt, once as a DSS Clerk and again as a barman in a Highland pub. He played a major role as the harassed talent agent Dickie Valentino in the 1994 partially-improvised comedy film There's No Business..., alongside comedy duos Raw Sex (Simon Brint and Rowland Rivron) and The Oblivion Boys (Stephen Frost and Mark Arden). He appeared in the 2002 S Club Juniors video "One Step Closer." In November 2010 he appeared as Dave in Episode 6 of E4 comedy Phoneshop. He appeared as the Tooting Flasher in Matt Berry's Toast of London pilot. Appeared in Hustle. Also appearances in French and Saunders, The Lenny Henry Show, The Detectives, After You've Gone, and My Family. Stage appearances include Ken Campbell's The Warp at the Liverpool Everyman, several roles at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. Figaro at The Watford Palace Theatre, as well as pantomime roles. Co-writer and performer The WOW Show at the Wyndham's Theatre. He toured Britain with Neal from the Young Ones. Cornes was one of the lead writers for Mr Bean, The Animated Series, and a writer on Cavegirl and Channel 4's Gophers!. He was a co-writer of Channel 4's animation series The Bird, and writer/storyliner on What's Up Doc?, a writer and performer on Thames TV's After Hours and joint writer on two series of The WOW Show on Radio 4. He has appeared in various children's television shows such as My Parents are Aliens, Bear Behaving Badly, Jackanory. In a 2010 interview in The Times, Cornes was cited as one of fellow comedian Sean Lock's biggest comedic influences. Lock said: "He’s not very well known but he is my main influence — he used to compere at the Comedy Store. He’s the comedians’ comedian. He used to be very unpredictable, which is a great skill in a comedian, not knowing where to go next. He also used to play the physics teacher in Grange Hill."