Before Twitter, if comedians wrote what they had for lunch on a Post-it and put it through your letterbox you wouldn’t find it acceptable – but now apparently it is on Twitter. Lee Mack Read Quote
Comics were always the lowest rung on the ladder, front of cloth at the Royal Variety Performance. What that means is you’re only there so Take That can set up behind the curtains. Lee Mack Read Quote
Everyone talks about the gags, but the most difficult thing is coming up with the stories. You have to learn to do that for sitcoms. Lee Mack Read Quote
Now and again I’ll bump into people and say, ‘I’m a big fan of yours. Would you like to be in my sitcom?’ And they say, ‘Oh yes,’ but when it comes to the booking, they don’t want to do it. Lee Mack Read Quote
There’s nothing more damning in life than a child calmly and coldly saying, ‘Are you aware that you’re teaching me bad habits?’ Lee Mack Read Quote
I would say about 90 per cent of drunken idiots in comedy clubs wear ties, particularly in London where I work most of the time. Lee Mack Read Quote
Genuinely my big thing and the reason I’m in ‘The Miser’ is because I always ask myself one simple question when I’m offered anything: Will it get me nearer to being ‘Doctor Who’ or further away? Lee Mack Read Quote
