Lee Cornes is an

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and writer born in

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. A stand up comedian since 1980, he was a regular compere at London's 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 ''

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''. 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 children's drama ''

Grange Hill ''Grange Hill'' is a British children's television drama series, originally produced by the BBC and portraying life in a typical comprehensive school. The show began its run on 8 February 1978 on BBC1, and was one of the longest-running progra ...

'' as Mr. Jeff Hankin (1990–2002); provided voices for characters in the

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'' 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 "

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". He also appeared several times in the BBC Scotland sitcom

Rab C. Nesbitt ''Rab C. Nesbitt'' is a Scottish comedy series which began in 1988. Produced by BBC Scotland, it stars Gregor Fisher as an alcoholic Glaswegian who seeks unemployment as a lifestyle choice. Rab C. Nesbitt was originally a recurring character ...

, once as a DSS Clerk and again as a barman in a Highland pub. He played a major role as the harassed

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Dickie Valentino in the 1994 partially-

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film '' There's No Business...'', alongside comedy duos Raw Sex (

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and

Rowland Rivron Rowland John Rivron (born 28 September 1958) is a British writer, comedic actor and television personality. Early career Rivron played the comic character "Dr Martin Scrote" on the Jonathan Ross chat show ''The Last Resort'', and also played Scr ...

) and

The Oblivion Boys The Oblivion Boys was a comedy double act primarily from the 1980s consisting of Mark Arden and Stephen Frost. As well as appearances on '' Saturday Live'', '' The Young Ones'' and ''The Black Adder'', they also became familiar to TV viewers in th ...

( Stephen Frost and

Mark Arden Mark David Darwin Arden (born 31 July 1956) is an English comedian and actor, best known for his television appearances. During the 1980s, he was one half of comic double act ' The Oblivion Boys', alongside Stephen Frost. Arden was born in Ne ...

). 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 Berry's Toast of London pilot. Appeared in ''Hustle''. Also appearances in ''

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'', ''

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'', '' The Detectives'', '' After You've Gone'', and ''

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''. Stage appearances include

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's ''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. Co-writer and performer ''The WOW Show'' at the

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. 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 4's ''Gophers!''. He was a co-writer of Channel 4's animation series ''The Bird'', and writer/storyliner on ''What's Up Doc?'', a writer and performer on Thames TV's ''After Hours'' and joint writer on two series of ''The WOW Show'' on Radio 4. He has appeared in various children's 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 Lock Sean Lock (22 April 1963 – 16 August 2021) was an English comedian and actor. He began his comedy career as a stand-up comedian and in 2000 he won the British Comedy Award, in the category of Best Live Comic, and was nominated for the Pe ...

's biggest comedic influences. Lock said: "He’s not very well known but he is my main influence — he used to compere at the Comedy Store. He’s 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."

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