After Dinner Speakers
Sean Lock – Award-Winning Stand-Up Comedian, Writer and Actor.
Sean Lock is one of the UK’s most highly acclaimed and original comedians, making his stage debut over 15 years ago. His stand-up is the product of a hyperactive imagination combining hilariously surreal imagery and insightful observations on the human condition.
Sean Lock is a regular at London’s Comedy Store and has appeared at all the major festivals around the world including Edinburgh, Melbourne, Montreal and the Stavanger Humorfestivat in Norway. Sean has performed in some of the most successful live shows of recent years. Beginning in 1995 when he collaborated with Bill Bailey on Rock, the much misunderstood music industry spoof later to be serialised on Radio One.
Sean Lock was winner of The British Comedy Award for Best Stand Up in 2000, he was nominated for a Perrier Award in 2000 and also won the Time Out Award for Comedy in 1995.
On television, Sean Lock is a team captain on the hit Channel 4 show 8/10 Cats and has his own show TV Heaven Telly Hell also on Channel 4.
Sean’s extensive television credits include appearances on They Think It’s All Over (BBC) Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC) The World Of Lee Evans (Channel 4) Here’s Johnny (BBC) and The Stand Up Show (BBC).
As a writer, Sean Lock has written and starred in his own BBC sitcom 15 Storeys High, co-created Mark Lamarr Leaving The 20th Century (BBC), and has contributed to such shows as Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC), It’s Only TV But I like It (BBC) and Is It Bill Bailey (Channel 4).