COMEDIAN SEAN LOCK TV
He’s been featured on Room 101 and Comic’s Choice and in 2006, he hosted his own show, TV Heaven, Telly Hell. He’s been a brilliant panel member on shows like They Think It’s All Over, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and Have I Got News For You (which he guest presented in 2006).
This ability to appeal to many paved the way to larger audiences, on radio and on television. It means his work straddles the surreal and the everyday – ensuring the audience always recognise where he’s coming from, despite the strong whiff of the ridiculous.” ( “Sean Lock: Lockipedia Review”, Chortle, 5 March 2010) “Sean Lock is one of stand-up’s great lateral thinkers able to take a straightforward comedy observation, then take that quantum leap of imagination needed to make it distinctively funny. He can be political without being too heavy, stilly without being stupid, weird without being too weird. Part of his appeal is that he doesn’t work a singular persona: he’s clearly middle class but not snobbish (not even in an ironic way) he’s clever (the fact that he’s a frequent guest and occasional winner on QI is proof enough) but unafraid to discuss his lack of formal higher education. But inbetween his bouts of bitching, he has moments of exuberance which show that he’s actually having a wonderful time entertaining his audience. Duchess of Kent, she can fuck off.” He also bans anyone who has a starter before a football match, paints their face or wears a player’s name on their shirt as well as the St John’s Ambulance (“I know they do a wonderful job, but who doesn’t look at them and think, ‘Twat'”), all his mates and finally, Lock himself. All the players, they’re all twats now, referees, linesmen. He talks about going to see the first Cup Final at the new Wembley and meeting up with a member of the Response Squad security team who says he’s there to keep people from “acting like twats.” Lock reels off a list of people who’d be excluded if he were in charge: “25,000 United fans - they’d be out for a start. His grumpiness is definitely present throughout: his observational humour generally focuses on the things he hates - from the smoking ban to people with wheat intolerance - but most of the time, he himself is his object of complaint. Unlike some of his contemporaries, though, he doesn’t really work the “New Lad” angle, viciously ripping into women because after all “we’re all equal now.” He’s more of a cheeky chappy women may roll their eyes at a few of his gags (like when he tries to find a word to describe his long term partner - girlfriend doesn’t seem significant enough but “she doesn’t like ‘lodger’ and ‘lover’ doesn’t really describe our life together”), but they’re back onside for the rest of his show. Much of his act can be rather laddish - yes, he’s got bits on drinking and football (he’s a big Chelsea supporter) and does talk about relationships and the differences between men and women. On stage, he blends wordplay with slapstick and meets everyday observations with silly reactions. He’s released two stand-up DVDs: 2008’s Sean Lock Live and Lockipedia from his sold-out 2010 tour of the same name. In 2000 he won the British Comedy Award for Best Live Comic, and he has consistently placed on “Greatest Stand-Up” lists since. Lock’s comedy career began with stand-up. Perhaps it was in part because of these varied experiences that when Lock did decide to become a performer, he became one of the most versatile comedians working today. Footlights opened doors for members of Monty Python and the Goodies, Clive Anderson, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, Mel and Sue, Punt and Dennis, Armstrong and Miller, Mitchell and Webb, but more importantly, it gave them the chance to develop their craft and comedic styles.īy contrast, before Sean Lock became a comedian, he worked as a labourer on building sites, an office worker for the Department of Health and Social Security, and a toilet cleaner and goat herder in France. Before they became famous, many British comedians were part of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club.
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