IAIN LEE

'Iain Lee' (born 9 June 1973) is a British comedian and television and radio presenter. Lee was brought up in Slough and attended Herschel Grammar School. His rise to fame began when he worked London stand-up comedy venues.
Lee often uses a number of catchphrases, soundbites and recordings of callers during his shows.
Lee's show is one of many LBC programmes which are available as a podcast through a free, or monthly subscription service.

Contents

LBC 97.3 Radio Show

Sunday Night Slot

Other Work

"Ghostbusters 2"

Shindiggery

External links

LBC 97.3 Radio Show

Lee is currently a presenter on London radio station LBC97.3 FM. His radio career started when he would phone Clive Bull, who ironically, he would years later be working alongside. Lee's first LBC appearance was when he 'filled in' for Bull for two weeks in the latter months of 2004. When he joined officially in January 2005, Lee hosted the 10:00 p.m. - 1 a.m. slot on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
October 2005 saw Lee's show move again, this time to the afternoon "drivetime" slot, where he aired from between 4 and 7pm, in a show initially named "''The 3 Hour 4 'Till 7 Iain Lee Afternoon Wireless Show.''"
However, in early 2006, the show's times changed once more to 3:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. and was then known as "''The 3 Hour 3 'Till 6.30 Iain Lee Afternoon Wireless Show''", with the extra last half-hour (Iain explained this was due to a "wordy contract") consisting of "''Triple M''", fully known as "''Mick's Mental Mayhem''", whereby calls go 'straight to air' unscreened.
The last week of the Afternoon Wireless Show, from 18th - 22nd December, featured a number of special guests (including Frank Sidebottom), and the last show, on Friday 22nd December, included a number regular callers to the show.
Since January 2007, Lee is now presenting the evening slot, between 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m., preceding Clive Bull in his new show, titled "''Iain Lee's Good Evening''". Iain chose the name after seeking advice from his friend and fellow comedian Mackenzie Crook. His afternoon slot has been taken over by current weekend breakfast show host Paul Ross.

Sunday Night Slot

Since May 2006, Lee has also hosted the three hour 10:00 p.m. - 1 a.m. slot on Sunday evenings. Like the first half hour of his new evening show, this is occupied by "''Triple M''", named after a caller called Mick. Other hosts have used the straight to air concept, and Lee regularly admits on-air he stole the idea from Tommy Boyd and Clive Bull.

Other Work

Lee fronted the successful Channel 4 show ''The Eleven O'Clock Show'' alongside Daisy Donovan, referring to himself as 'TV's Iain Lee', video game review show ''Thumb Bandits'' and the ill-fated Channel 4 breakfast show ''. He also presented the documentary ''Thumb Candy'' and appears regularly on Channel 4's "Top 100" series of programmes. He presented ''Celebrity Soup'' for the E! channel taking a look at the week's celebrity news. Iain also regularly appears on shows on Sky One associated with Lost with him as the presenter. Iain recently presented a show called "''Posh and Becks go to Hollywood''" along with a follow up show called "''Wills and Harry go to Vegas''", these shows involved Iain trying to trick the people of America that the look-alikes are in fact the stars.
After winning a comedic celebrity edition of ''The Weakest Link'', he also won a "celebrity" edition of the British television quiz ''Mastermind'', broadcast on 29 December 2006, in which his specialist subject was ''The Monkees''.
Other radio work includes appearing on BBC Radio 4's ''Loose Ends'', and previously presenting on Xfm London between 1999-2001. Lee also presented Channel 4 radio's ''UK Lost'' podcast, where he summarised each episode of series two after it is broadcast in the UK. Since Sky have now acquired rights to air Lost Seasons 3 and 4, Lee has been signed to return in Sky's very own podcast, entitled ''The Lost Initiative'', which began airing alongside the Season premiere in the UK on 19th November[1].
Iain currently narrates a Discovery Channel series called "How Do They Do It?".
Along with his producer known as "Agent Chris", Lee will be appearing on "XLeague.tv" discussing video games.

"Ghostbusters 2"

In late 2006, and early 2007, Lee made several prank calls to the late night ITV Quiz show Quizmania, as a caller called "Tony", Lee used the same "answer" for virtually any question on a particular subject, "Is it Ghostbusters 2?", or just "Ghostbusters 2" for subjects such as "Fairy Tale Characters" or "Things You Open" [2]. Lee's pranks were either met with irritation or endorsed depending on which presenter was hosting. He was eventually outed by Lisa Snatch during a live call, and has not attempted another "Ghosbusters 2" prank since. Soon after Lee began the pranks, Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles also started calling quiz phone-ins with similar inane answers.
With the help of the UK’s best Beckham look-a-likes, Andy Harmer and Camilla Shadbolt, Iain will posed as the Beckham’s PA in their new-found home-city of LA in an attempt to find out how America feels about the Beckhams in Sky One's documentary "''The Beckhams Go To LA''", produced by UK television company Twofour.

Shindiggery

Iain has set up a free podcast service called "Shindiggery", consisting of music, soundbites and audio recordings. Listeners are also encouraged to send their own recordings in. The podcasts are recorded from Iain's own home, and occasionally features guests on the show.
The podcasts are hosted by LibSyn, and is also available on the Podcast section of iTunes.
Currently, "Shindiggery" is in it's fourth episode, and is in the Top 15 podcasts in the Comedy section of iTunes.

External links

★ Iain Lee's Official homepage

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★ Iain Lee's YouTube videos

★ Iain Lee News

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★ LBC 97.3 ''Iain Lee'' page

★ The Lost Initiative podcast

★ "Iain Lee Presents...Shindiggery"