Lee Evans Discography

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Lee Evans was born in Avonmouth, Bristol, England. His secondary school was The Billericay School in Billericay, Essex. After a spell as a boxer and two years at art school in Essex, Evans decided to follow in his father`s footsteps in the entertainment business. In his teens he moved to Rhyl, Wales, and played drums in a punk rock band called The Forgotten Five.

In 1981, at the age of 17, he married Heather Evans with whom he has a daughter Mollie, born in 1993. They currently live in Billericay, Essex. Lee Evans is also a singer and musician as is shown on the Lee Evans XL Live Tour 2005. He can play Mandolin, Guitar, Bass, Piano and Drums.

Lee Evans rose to fame during the 1990s in his home country, becoming noted for his loud, hot, sweaty, energetic on-stage performances, mastery of humorous voices, and very physical, observational alternative and brilliant comedy.

He is regarded as having a Norman Wisdom style of slapstick comedy acting, and in many respects has taken on Wisdom`s role for a later generation. In his earlier work, he often used a dysfunctional character called Malcolm to illustrate how he viewed unusual characters in the world. In 1993, Evans won the Perrier Comedy Award for his work at the Edinburgh Festival.

One of the trademarks of Evans`s performances is his sweatiness: he is usually drenched in his own sweat. During most of his headlining performances, he often must take an intermission, during which he changes into a completely different suit; he once said that this was because he was "as nervous as a nun awaiting her pregnancy test results". He has also said that his suits are regularly thrown away after just one performance, mainly because of the sweat, with dry-cleaners refusing to handle them.

A second trademark is The Lee Evans Trio, which consists of him on a bare stage, in a spotlight, miming to a recording of instrumental sound; the spotlight goes out, only to reappear in another location, to which Evans has moved during the blackout, and where he is now miming playing a different instrument. He mimes in three locations, with an imaginary drum kit, double bass and piano.

A third trademark is his apparent "stage fright". At the beginning of his act he`ll often pretend to get the microphone cord tangled up or thrown over his shoulder, or even that it doesn`t work (he`ll begin to talk but nothing is heard, until the end of a gag or question is suddenly audible). He may spend the first few minutes rambling as if he can`t remember what he came on stage for. Often he will tilt the microphone stand and pretend to machine gun the audience, again as a nervous reaction and supposed "time filler".

Evans is also known for performing music skits at the end of every gig, usually his world-famous mime to Queen`s "Bohemian Rhapsody". His live act is also notable for its persistent use of variations of the word fuck.

In November 2005, Evans broke the Guinness World Record for a solo act performing to the biggest comedy audience, playing to 10,108 at the Manchester Evening News Arena, beating the previous record of 8,700 set by Eddie Izzard.

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