BAFTA-winning stand-up LEE MACK, writer and star of BBC ONE’S hugely popular primetime sitcom Not Going Out (Royal Television Society and Golden Rose award-winner), has extended his brand new stand-up tour due to massive demand by an additional 23 dates, including two further nights at the London Hammersmith Apollo - taking the national run to 96 shows, totalling in excess of 170,000 tickets. Originally due to end this May, it will now run into November 2010.

In addition to his critically acclaimed live work, award-winning writer and performer LEE is probably best known to television audiences for his starring role in BBC ONE’S hit sitcom Not Going Out. As well as a resident team captain on Would I Lie To You? (BBC ONE), LEE’S credits also include; guest host on Have I Got News For You (BBC ONE) and a key writer and performer in the BAFTA Award winning The Sketch Show (ITV1), which ran for two series in the UK before LEE went on to work alongside KELSEY GRAMMER in an American version of the show. He has also written and starred in his Sony Radio Award nominated The Lee Mack Show (BBC Radio 2); hosted They Think It’s All Over (BBC ONE); and headlined and hosted Live at the Apollo (BBC ONE). Series 2 of Not Going Out was released on DVD earlier this year by Universal. An award-winning stand-up, LEE'S last tour was a sell-out, nominated for a British Comedy Award, recorded for release on DVD, and subsequently broadcast on Channel 4 last autumn and swiftly repeated in February of this year. A nominee for the prestigious Perrier Award, LEE has also won a Time Out Best Live Comedy Award and in 2005, the Best Stand-Up award at the Loaded LAFTAS.

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What the press has said about the tour so far

“Mack is a gag-master of the old school, the twist being that he comes at everything in such a fast, often furious manner that he feels utterly modern. His jokes have the brevity of telegrams. His delivery achieves the mind-blowing quickness of broadband. That whirlwind instability serves to give him a distinctive and treasurable stage personality. Mack is his own man. And, with shows this good, the coming decade should finally see him established as one of British comedy’s greats.”
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph

“Mack powers out the absurdities with such accuracy and pace you’re never ahead of him…this is stand-up comedy at its most propulsive and persuasive.” * * * *
Dominic Maxwell, The Times

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Tel: +44 (0)20 7598 7222; Email: lucyp@avalonuk.com or danl@avalonuk.com

ADDED TOUR DATES

May

Monday 10th LONDON Hammersmith Apollo 0844 844 4748
Tuesday 11th LONDON Hammersmith Apollo 0844 844 4748

November

Monday 1st PORTSMOUTH Guildhall 023 9282 4355
Tuesday 2nd PORTSMOUTH Guildhall 023 9282 4355
Wednesday 3rd MANCHESTER Apollo 0844 477 7677
Thursday 4th MANCHESTER Apollo 0844 477 7677
Saturday 6th NEWCASTLE City Hall 0191 261 2606
Sunday 7th NEWCASTLE City Hall 0191 261 2606
Tuesday 9th LIVERPOOL Royal Philharmonic 0151 709 3789
Wednesday 10th LIVERPOOL Royal Philharmonic 0151 709 3789
Friday 12th PRESTON Guildhall 0845 344 2012
Saturday 13th BIRMINGHAM Symphony Hall 0121 780 3333
Sunday 14th BIRMINGHAM Symphony Hall 0121 780 3333
Friday 19th CARDIFF St David’s Hall 029 2087 8444
Saturday 20th LEICESTER De Montford Hall 0116 233 3111
Monday 22nd BRISTOL Colston Hall 0117 922 3686
Tuesday 23rd BRISTOL Colston Hall 0117 922 3686
Wednesday 24th PLYMOUTH Pavilions 01332 255 800
Thursday 25th BOURNEMOUTH Pavilions 0114 278 9789
Friday 26th NOTTINGHAM Royal Concert Hall 0115 989 5555
Sunday 28th SHEFFIELD City Hall 0871 297 5454
Monday 29th SHEFFIELD City Hall 0844 848 2706