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Lee Mack
Lee Gordon McKillop (born 4 August 1968), known by his stage name Lee Mack, is an English comedian and actor. Mack’s better known work includes creating, writing and starring in sitcom Not Going Out, and featuring as a team captain on panel show Would I Lie to You?. In 2022, he began hosting the game show The 1% Club.
Lee Gordon McKillop was born on 4 August 1968 in Southport, Lancashire. He lived above a pub until he was 12, when his parents separated. He attended Birkdale Primary Junior School (Bury Road), Stanley High School in Southport, and Everton High School in Blackburn. On leaving school, Mack worked in a bingo hall and as a stable boy. After working at the stable of racehorse trainer Ginger McCain in Southport for three days, he asked if he could ride one of the horses, to which the trainer agreed. Without realising, Mack then chose Red Rum as the first horse he would ride.
Mack then became a Bluecoat entertainer at the Pontins holiday resort at Hemsby in Norfolk. He was sacked after appearing on stage drunk one night, forgetting a joke and insulting an audience member. He then worked for six months at Pontins in Morecambe.
Mack went on to have various other jobs, and performed his first "open mic" slot in 1994, while studying at Brunel University, from where he graduated with a degree in Drama. Within 18 months he was a full-time comedian.
Mack first came to prominence by winning So You Think You're Funny at the 1995 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Five years later at the festival, he was nominated for the Perrier Award Main Prize for his sketch comedy show, Lee Mack's New Bits, with Catherine Tate and Dan Antopolski. Since then, Mack has played the part of Graham, the security guard in the original radio version of The Mighty Boosh, and also has his own radio show on BBC Radio 2 called The Lee Mack Show, which features varying celebrities co-hosting the show.
Mack was a cast member for ITV's The Sketch Show in 2001 to 2004, and featured in the American show of the same name.
In 2005, Mack presented They Think It's All Over, a sports-based comedy panel game, formerly presented by Nick Hancock; it proved to be the show's final series. In 2007 he appeared on TV Heaven, Telly Hell.
His first sitcom, Not Going Out for BBC One with Tim Vine (in which he plays Lee, the leading man), premiered on 6 October 2006. The show has since returned for eleven more seasons, the most recent airing in 2025. The show has won a Rose d'Or and RTS Award.
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Lee Mack
Lee Gordon McKillop (born 4 August 1968), known by his stage name Lee Mack, is an English comedian and actor. Mack’s better known work includes creating, writing and starring in sitcom Not Going Out, and featuring as a team captain on panel show Would I Lie to You?. In 2022, he began hosting the game show The 1% Club.
Lee Gordon McKillop was born on 4 August 1968 in Southport, Lancashire. He lived above a pub until he was 12, when his parents separated. He attended Birkdale Primary Junior School (Bury Road), Stanley High School in Southport, and Everton High School in Blackburn. On leaving school, Mack worked in a bingo hall and as a stable boy. After working at the stable of racehorse trainer Ginger McCain in Southport for three days, he asked if he could ride one of the horses, to which the trainer agreed. Without realising, Mack then chose Red Rum as the first horse he would ride.
Mack then became a Bluecoat entertainer at the Pontins holiday resort at Hemsby in Norfolk. He was sacked after appearing on stage drunk one night, forgetting a joke and insulting an audience member. He then worked for six months at Pontins in Morecambe.
Mack went on to have various other jobs, and performed his first "open mic" slot in 1994, while studying at Brunel University, from where he graduated with a degree in Drama. Within 18 months he was a full-time comedian.
Mack first came to prominence by winning So You Think You're Funny at the 1995 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Five years later at the festival, he was nominated for the Perrier Award Main Prize for his sketch comedy show, Lee Mack's New Bits, with Catherine Tate and Dan Antopolski. Since then, Mack has played the part of Graham, the security guard in the original radio version of The Mighty Boosh, and also has his own radio show on BBC Radio 2 called The Lee Mack Show, which features varying celebrities co-hosting the show.
Mack was a cast member for ITV's The Sketch Show in 2001 to 2004, and featured in the American show of the same name.
In 2005, Mack presented They Think It's All Over, a sports-based comedy panel game, formerly presented by Nick Hancock; it proved to be the show's final series. In 2007 he appeared on TV Heaven, Telly Hell.
His first sitcom, Not Going Out for BBC One with Tim Vine (in which he plays Lee, the leading man), premiered on 6 October 2006. The show has since returned for eleven more seasons, the most recent airing in 2025. The show has won a Rose d'Or and RTS Award.