Following the festive success of last year’s Lost Voice Guy’s Christmas Comedy Club, Britain’s Got Talent winner Lee Ridley (aka Lost Voice Guy) returns to ITV this Christmas Eve with a sleigh filled to the brim with some of the UK’s best loved comedy stars.
This special festive show, packed with sack-loads of seasonal cheer (and possibly a mince pie or two), will be hosted by Lee in his own inimitable style in front of a live audience. He will be joined by some of the nation’s favourite comedians for a yuletide comedy extravaganza that promises to be the best start to Christmas anyone could possibly wish for.
Lee’s guests on the night include ventriloquist Paul Zerdin, comedians Josie Long and Dara O’Briain and freestyle rapper and comedian Abandoman.
Lost Voice Guy’s Christmas Comedy Club was commissioned by Joe Mace at ITV and its Executive Producers are Celia Taylor and Trix Worrell for Distant Voices.
Celia Talor, Executive Producer – Distant Voices said: “I've worked hard to be a good girl this year and it has paid off as Santa has brought me another Christmas Comedy Club with LVG! So happy to be working with Lee again and my thank you letter on its way to Santa and ITV.”
Lee Ridley is the first stand-up comedian to use a communication aid. He made his first stand-up appearance in February 2012 and took his first ever solo show to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013. He has performed a show there every year since.
As well as being the first comedian to win Britain’s Got Talent in 2018 Lee also won the BBC New Comedy Award in 2014 and has appeared on some of the country’s most popular TV shows including The One Show, This Morning, Lorraine and BBC Breakfast.
He has performed for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on The Royal Variety Performance, appeared on Britain’s Got Talent: The Champions, America’s Got Talent: The Champions, Live At The Apollo, Comic Relief, The Last Leg, The Now Show, Question Team, Comedians Giving Lectures and Pointless Celebrities. He has also just finished filming the third series of BBC3’s Jerk.
Lee has travelled the UK extensively with his last two tours (I’m Only In It For The Parking and Cerebral LOL-sy) which lead to him winning Ents 24 Hardest Working Comedian Award in 2019.
The fourth series of Lee’s popular Radio 4 sitcom, Ability, which he co-writes and in which he also stars, has just been commissioned and his debut book, I’m Only In It For The Parking – a humorous autobiographical look at disability and the way we approach it – was published in paperback in 2021.
Lee’s Christmas special – Christmas Comedy Club with Lost Voice Guy will be transmitted this Christmas Eve on ITV1.
