Lee Evans is a comedian, actor, and writer. He has written for the BBC’s The One Show, ITV’s Mr. Bean and Smack the Pony.
He has also written for BBC Radio 4’s Just A Minute and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Lee Evans is perhaps best know for his sketches in The Comic Strip Presents… series of programmes which he co-wrote with Peter Richardson between 1979 and 1994.
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The actor and comedian Lee Evans was born on 13 August 1958 in Warrington, Lancashire.
Lee was a funny and popular comedian who performed a range of different comedy styles. He was famous for his impressions, particularly those of The Beatles.
He first found fame as part of the five-man sketch group The Comic Strip Presents… with whom he collaborated from 1979 to 1985. He made his name as a stand-up comedian starting in the late 1980s and continued until his death in 2014.