Line #6 Creator/LeeMack


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2	Lee Gordon [=McKillop=] (born 4 August 1968), better known as [[StageNames Lee Mack]], is a fairly prominent British stand-up comic, presenter and actor, notable for his no-nonsense (or maybe that should be all-nonsense) style of performing: he never attempts to include any overarching themes or emotional depth, as modern stand-ups often do, he just says whatever he thinks is funny.
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4	He's a team captain on ''Series/WouldILieToYou'' opposite Creator/{{David Mitchell\|Actor}}, forming a much-milked OddCouple relationship, and is the creator and star of sitcom ''Series/NotGoingOut'' opposite Creator/TimVine, forming ''another'' much-milked OddCouple relationship. He has also presented a VarietyShow entitled ''Lee Mack's All Star Cast''. He's also [[OopNorth very Northern]]. He was also a part of the five-person comedian cast of ''Series/TheSketchShow'' and headlined another sitcom called ''Series/SemiDetached''.
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6	Additionally, he hosts a podcast, titled ''I Can't Believe It's Not Buddha'', where he discusses how he turned to Buddhism and how his journey toward spiritual enlightenment is going.
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9	!! Lee Mack provides examples of:
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11	* BerserkButton: Not that he seems to have any of his own; he just likes to find them and press them. When playing off David Mitchell this works admirably -- when used on Creator/StephenFry, not so much..
12	* BookDumb: Particularly as the foil to more traditionally intelligent persons.
13	* BurnTheWitch: He jokes that his father was very traditional, then says that he denounced Lee's sister as a witch when she got her first period.
14	* ButtMonkey: On ''Would I Lie To You?''
15	* CannotTellAJoke: A couple of gags have him tell a joke or make a statement that doesn't really seem to make sense, only for him to then say "sorry, I meant (x)", with X being something that does make sense.
16	--> Why did the chicken cross the road? Because his house was being bombed by the Russians! Leave him alone, he's only a chicken! They're blowing up his house! Leave him alone, he's a chicken!... Sorry, not chicken, Chechen.
17	* DisappearedDad: In keeping with his stage persona as a dimwitted and rather stereotypical Northern lout, a lot of his jokes tend to paint him as a barely-present inattentive father to his kids who is subject to the ongoing and often abusive disdain of their mother and is frequently in the target-sights of the social services. It should perhaps be noted that this appears to be firmly averted in real life, as Lee appears to be a HappilyMarried father of three who frequently comments that many of his television guest appearances are prompted by the fact that his kids enjoy the shows in question.
18	* DrivesLikeCrazy: In a routine about his driving test:
19	--> '''Mack''': You know what you're supposed to do if you're driving and a deer jumps in front of your car?
20	--> '''Audience Member''': Run it over!
21	--> '''Mack''': "Run it over" is the correct answer. That's what you're supposed to do. I was taking my driving test, and a deer did run out into the middle of the road. And I kept driving. Then I looked back. I'd missed it by ''millimetres''. And, well, I didn't want to fail my driving test...I chased the bloody thing through fields for an hour, and the examiner still failed me!
22	* HypocriticalHumour:
23	--> I got stopped by a market researcher today. She said, "Can I ask you ten quick questions?" I went, "Go on." She went, "Question #1. Have you ever had a blackout?" I said "No". She went, "And finally, Question #10..."
24	* UsefulNotes/IrishNames: his routine about the pronunciation of names like "Niamh" and "Siobhan".
25	--> In what possible universe is there a "v" in there?
26	* LargeHam: Occasionally. He has engaged in HamToHamCombat with other legendary shouters -- notably David Mitchell and Creator/CharlieBrooker -- and has at least held his own (arguably he beat Charlie with a well-placed rant about Website/{{Twitter}}).
27	* LiteralMinded: While talking about how he has trouble understanding computer terminology, his answer to "Have you disabled cookies?":
28	--> I once bit the legs off a Gingerbread-Man.
29	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Something of a tactic of his on panel shows. Lee likes to play up the impression of himself as a somewhat stereotypically dim-witted Northerner and plays himself down with self-deprecating humour and constant jokes, but he is clearly incredibly sharp-witted and capable of effectively outplaying his opponents with incredibly clever moves. He's pulled off a surprise victory in ''8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown'' on at least two occasions by spotting nine-letter words in the anagram rounds. Most prominently, for all the OddCouple act with David Mitchell in ''Would I Lie To You'', where he plays the blunt working class foil to David's prissy southern intellectual, a quick glance at a series leaderboard shows that he's more than capable of holding his own. As lampshaded by Victoria Coren-Mitchell at one point:
30	-->'''Victoria:''' Genuinely, Lee Mack is one of the cleverest people on TV. God knows, ''he hides it well''...
31	* OopNorth: In spades, and used as a point of contrast against "posh" southerner David Mitchell in ''Would I Lie To You?'', and against "posh" southerner [[Creator/TimVine Tim]] in ''Not Going Out''.
32	* {{Pilot}}: Lee was cast as Raymond in a British version of ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''. This never got past the pilot episode, which has so far not been released.
33	* ShoutOut: His stage name is an obvious reference to his great-grandfather Billy Mac, a vaudeville star (whom Lee himself never met).
34	* SmarterThanYouLook: Underneath the [[WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons working-class]] [[OopNorth Northern-ness]] (and a touch of ObfuscatingStupidity) is a ''very'' sharp mind. Stephen Fry has stated that he finds it incredibly frustrating to work with Lee Mack since willful stupidity is one of his personal berserk buttons, Lee's comedy is based around him acting like a moron, and Stephen knows that Lee more likely than not is the smartest (though usually not best educated) person in the room.
35	* TakeThat: He makes it clear that he doesn't like Music/RobbieWilliams very much.

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