Lee Cornes

Lee Cornes is an English television actor and writer born in Hayes in 1951.A stand up comedian since 1980, he was a regular compere at Londons 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 childrens drama Grange Hill as Mr. Jeff Hankin (1990–2002); provided voices for characters in childrens 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 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 Berrys Toast of London pilot. Appeared in Hustle. Also appearances in French and Saunders, The Lenny Henry Show, The Detectives, After Youve Gone, and My Family.Stage appearances include Ken Campbells 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 Wyndhams 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 4s Gophers!. He was a co-writer of Channel 4s animation series The Bird, and writer/storyliner on Whats Up Doc?, a writer and performer on Thames TVs After Hours and joint writer on two series of The WOW Show on Radio 4. He has appeared in various childrens 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 Locks 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.

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