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Iain Lee (born on 9th June, 1973) is a British comedian and television and radio presenter. Lee was brought up in Slough and attended Herschel Grammar School. His rise to fame began when he worked London stand-up comedy venues, though he became best known as co-presenter of the Channel 4 comedy series The Eleven O'Clock Show. In November 2007 he was fired from LBC 97.3 after racist comments. He is now hosting an evening sunday slot for virgin radio in Australia. June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. ...
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Herschel Grammar School is a selective co-educational grammar foundation school and Technology College in Slough, Berkshire. ...
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LBC 97.3 Lee was a presenter on London radio station LBC 97.3 from January 2005 until November 2007. His radio career started when he would phone Clive Bull, who ironically, he would years later be working alongside. Lee's first LBC appearance was when he 'filled in' for Bull for two weeks in the latter months of 2004. When he joined officially in January 2005, Lee hosted the 2200-0100 slot on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. LBC 97. ...
Clive Bull Clive Bull (born January 23, 1959) is an award-winning radio talk show host on LBC 97. ...
October 2005 saw Lee's show move, this time to the 1600-1900 late afternoon/early evening "drivetime" slot, where he presented "The 3 Hour 4 'Till 7 Iain Lee Afternoon Wireless Show.". Many of Lee's listeners favoured this slot, as even Lee himself believes this was him at his best.
In January 2006 Lee moved once again to 1500-1830. This then became "The 3 and a Half Hour 3 'Till 6.30 Iain Lee Afternoon Wireless Show. The last week of the Afternoon Wireless Show, from 18th-22nd December 2006, featured a number of special guests (including Frank Sidebottom), and the last show, on Friday 22nd December, included a number regular callers to the show, including Barry from Watford. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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Alex Lowe (born 1968) is an English actor and comedian, who is best known as the creator and voice behind the character Barry from Watford. // Lowe began calling the Iain Lee radio show on the London talk radio station LBC 97. ...
From January to November 2007, Lee presented the evening slot, between 1900-2200, preceding Clive Bull in his show titled "Iain Lee's Good Evening". Iain chose the name after seeking advice from his friend and fellow comedian Mackenzie Crook. His afternoon slot was lost to current weekend breakfast show host Paul Ross. Clive Bull Clive Bull (born January 23, 1959) is an award-winning radio talk show host on LBC 97. ...
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Paul John Ross (born John Ross on December 31, 1956 in Leytonstone, London) is an English journalist, television editor, and media personality. ...
Lee's show was one of many LBC programmes which are available as a podcast through a monthly subscription service. A podcast is a digital media file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. ...
For just over two years (9th September 2005 to 16th September 2007) Lee hosted Triple M, a feature where calls go straight to air, live and unscreened. Other talk radio presenters have also hosted similar features, including Nick Abbot, Tommy Boyd and Clive Bull, where Lee mentioned himself to 'stealing from other presenters'. Initially, Lee would host the feature every Friday evening during the last half hour of the show. Originally called Mental Mayhem, it was renamed to Mick's Mental Mayhem (or MMM for short) after a caller named Mick. Nick Abbot is a British radio presenter, born 22 August 1960. ...
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Clive Bull Clive Bull (born January 23, 1959) is an award-winning radio talk show host on LBC 97. ...
The rising popularity of the format and a change in the LBC schedule in May 2006 led to Lee devote a whole three hour show on Sunday evenings (2200-0100) to Triple M, being called Sunday Night Triple M, from 7th May 2005 to 16th September 2007. At the time, LBC management favoured the show's format as it would introduce 'exclusive listeners' to the radio station.
The change in LBC management in 2007 led to the demise of the Triple M format altogether. The last show being broadcast on Sunday, 16th September 2007.
When Global Radio purchased LBC in 2007, Iain's style of presenting fell out of favour with a return to topical and news-led conversation. Without warning, Iain Lee's Good Evening finally came to an end on Friday 2nd November 2007. It was announced the following week that Iain was fired from LBC after the accusation of sexual assault. Lee has moved permanently to Australia. Global Radio is a UK radio company created in 2007 by the sale of Chrysalis Radio by the Chrysalis Group [1] [2]. Senior personnel include Charles Allen and Richard Park. ...
Virgin Radio Iain Lee will return to the airwaves on 6th January 2008 to present a Sunday night show, from 2200-0100, on Australian radio, with a mixture of music and interaction.[1]
Other Work Lee fronted the successful Channel 4 show The Eleven O'Clock Show alongside Daisy Donovan, referring to himself as 'TV's Iain Lee', video game review show Thumb Bandits and the ill-fated Channel 4 breakfast show RI:SE. Lee also presented the documentary Thumb Candy and appears regularly on Channel 4's "Top 100" series of programmes. He presented Celebrity Soup for the E! channel taking a look at the week's celebrity news. Iain also regularly appears on shows on Sky One associated with Lost with him as the presenter. This article is about the British television station. ...
The Eleven OClock Show was a television comedy programme on Channel 4. ...
Daisy Donovan (born 11 July 1975) is an English television presenter, actress and writer. ...
Thumb Bandits was a computer games television show broadcast by the British television company Channel 4 in 2001. ...
RI:SE was a breakfast television show on Channel 4 in the UK. It was scheduled after the ratings failure of The Big Breakfast. ...
Thumb Candy Doumentary made in 2000 about games history. ...
Celebrity Soup is an E! Entertainment Television series. ...
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With the help of the UK’s best Beckham look-a-likes, Andy Harmer and Camilla Shadbolt, Iain posed as the Beckham’s PA in their new-found home-city of LA in an attempt to find out how America feels about the Beckhams in Sky One's documentary "Posh and Becks go to Hollywood'", produced by UK television company Twofour. It had a a follow up show called "Wills and Harry go to Vegas", these shows involved Iain trying to trick the people of America that the look-alikes are in fact the stars. Twofour is a UK independent broadcast production company and corporate communications agency. ...
After winning a comedic celebrity edition of The Weakest Link, he also won a "celebrity" edition of the British television quiz Mastermind, broadcast on 29 December 2006, in which his specialist subject was The Monkees. Weakest Link (early episodes had the on-screen title The Weakest Link) is a television game show which first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 14 August 2000. ...
Mastermind is a British quiz show, well-known for its challenging questions, intimidating setting and air of seriousness. ...
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Other radio work includes appearing on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends, and previously presenting on Xfm London between 1999-2001. Lee also presented Channel 4 radio's UK Lost podcast, where he summarised each episode of series two after it is broadcast in the UK. Since Sky have now acquired rights to air Lost Seasons 3 and 4, Lee has been signed to return in Sky's very own podcast, entitled The Lost Initiative, which began airing alongside the Season premiere in the UK on 19th November[1]. old Radio 4 logo BBC Radio 4 is a UK domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...
Loose Ends is a British radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. ...
Xfm London is a commercial radio station in the United Kingdom. ...
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Iain currently narrates a Discovery Channel series called "How Do They Do It?". Discovery Channel is a cable and satellite TV channel founded by John Hendricks which is distributed by Discovery Communications. ...
Along with his producer known as "Agent Chris", Lee will be appearing on "XLeague.tv" discussing video games. XLEAGUE.TV is a UK based satellite television channel and internet community dedicated to video games. ...
"Is It Ghostbusters 2?" In late 2006, and early 2007, Lee made several prank calls to the late night ITV Quiz show Quizmania, as a caller called "Tony", Lee used the same "answer" for virtually any question on a particular subject, "Is it Ghostbusters 2?", or just "Ghostbusters 2" for subjects such as "Fairy Tale Characters" or "Things You Open" [2]. Lee's pranks were either met with irritation or endorsed depending on which presenter was hosting. He was eventually outed by Lisa Snatch during a live call, and has not attempted another "Ghosbusters 2" prank since. Soon after Lee began the pranks, Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles also started calling quiz phone-ins with similar inane answers. [citation needed] Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting...
For the Australian version of the show, please see Quizmania (Australia) Quizmania was a British television interactive gameshow which showed on ITV Play. ...
Ghostbusters II is the 1989 sequel of Ghostbusters (1984); the sci-fi comedy films are about three parapsychologists. ...
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Christopher David Moyles (born February 22, 1974 in Leeds[1]) is an English disc jockey. ...
Shindiggery Iain has set up a free podcast called "Shindiggery", consisting of music, soundbites and audio recordings. Listeners are also encouraged to send their own recordings in. The podcasts are recorded and edited from Iain's own home, and occasionally features 'guests' on the show. A podcast is a digital media file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. ...
As an extra feature to Shindiggery, Iain set up his own answerphone, where messages would be recorded and included on the podcast. What is different to the radio however, is that callers are allowed to swear. This perhaps is an attempt to try and continue with the Triple M feature.
The podcasts are hosted by LibSyn, and is available on the Podcast section of iTunes.
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