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SEAN LOCK
Sean Lock (22 April 1963 – August 2021) was an English comedian and actor. He began his comedy career as a stand-up comedian and in 2000 won the British Comedy Award, in the category of Best Live Comic, and was nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award. He was a team captain on the Channel 4 comedy panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats from 2005 to 2015, and on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown from 2012 to 2021.
Lock frequently appeared on stage, television and radio. His routines were often surreal and delivered in a deadpan style. He also wrote material for Bill Bailey, Lee Evans, and Mark Lamarr, and was voted the 55th-greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups in 2007 and again in the updated 2010 list as the 19th-greatest stand-up comic. He was a frequent guest on other panel shows including BBC's Have I Got News for You, QI and They Think It's All Over.
Comedic style
Lock was known for his surreal style, deadpan delivery, and dry humour. The Guardian stated that he was "..celebrated for his carefully crafted surreal content and imaginative observational wit". Lock stated that comedy is not always easy, saying: "The real secret … is every day spending tedious hours straining over a blank sheet of paper trying to think of something funny. Some days I’d rather try and lay an egg."
Ed Power of The Daily Telegraph described his persona as "studiedly obtuse". Power said Lock's topics included: political correctness, "existential woe", and the difficulties of being a football supporter which gave him "irresistible everyman quality". Power described him as "a Samuel Beckett trapped inside a Tommy Cooper punchline." Power also suggested that his persona was so convincing because it matched what he was like off-stage. Fellow comedian Harry Hill said: "People are tempted to pigeonhole him as dark or surreal but he was more than that. He had a playful side; a wide-eyed wonder at the world"
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