Lee Cornes

Lee Cornes is an English television actor and writer born in Worcester 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 19902002 provided voices for characters in the 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 played a major role as the harassed talent agent Dickie Valentino in the 1994 partiallyimprovised comedy film Theres 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 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 Cowriter 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 cowriter of Channel 4s animation series The Bird and writerstoryliner 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 Hes not very well known but he is my main influence he used to compere at the Comedy Store Hes 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