***Currently booking for Roar With Laughter at The Blind Tiger in Blyth.
If you want me to book comedy events for your venue then please email [email protected]***
Having spent most of my life making up 'daft jokes' it seemed unavoidable that I would dip my toe into the stand-up comedy pool. However, after just one disastrous gig* in the mid 90s, where alcohol and cheap dirty speed did not inspire me, I left comedy well alone. For good, or so I thought. Until the call grew too strong again in my mid forties. This time the 'debut' gig went much better, sobriety can be a positive thing, and I was back in the whirlwind of gigs, self-doubt and comedy politics.
Highlights so far have been being runner-up in Leicester Comedy Festival's UK Pun Championships twice on the trot (I know) in 2017 & 2018 (but in 2021 I won the online show at Leicester Comedy Festival which featured the 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 champions), being featured on Radio 4's 'Ross Noble's Newcastle'. I was invited to be on BBC Newcastle's 'Jesting About' for two successive years. I was also a writer and performer on their Grin Up North Show. I reached the heats of the BBC New Comedy Awards in 2015. I took my first show, Jokebox, to Edinburgh in 2018. In 2021 I wrote a joke book of the same name.
I have a YouTube channel, so please go and Subscribe.
I have opened for Cottingham Comedy Club, Buzz Comedy, Bradford Comedy Club, Mirth Control, Laffa Cakes, Shoe Cake Comedy, The Laughing Pug, Wreck the Mic Comedy plus smaller one-off Northern gigs.
Done paid middles for Hilarity Bites, Comedy Lounge Hull, Funhouse Comedy, Cal's Comedy Club and other smaller one-off local gigs.
I've also headlined for Hull Comedy and Felt Nowt.
I've MC-d for Big Red, Shoe Cake Comedy, The Laughing Pug, Felt Nowt, Mirth Control, Smiles Better and Red Raw. I am also regularly asked to MC music and charity gigs.
I also work closely with Felt Nowt, a new comedy co-operative in the North East. (So if you have a venue and you're in the North East please get in touch). Please check them out: www.feltnowt.co.uk
I have been fortunate enough to gig alongside people like Gary Delaney, Scott Bennett, Troy Hawke, Jason Cook, Andy Askins, Carl Hutchinson, Noel James, Nina Gilligan, Mick Ferry, John Hastings, Alistair Barrie, Mary Bourke, Tez Ilyas, Dan Nightingale, Sindhu Vee, Will Franken, Danny Posthill, Pete Selwood, Lloyd Griffiths and a load more funny people.
Here's a link to my publisher's website:
www.dreams-edge.co.uk/julian-lee
And here's a rather wonderful review of my joke book, Julian Lee's Jokebox from NE Volume: nevolume.co.uk/culture/literature/literature-newcastle-comic-julian-lee-releases-new-book/?fbclid=IwAR1i7Dx2lfsOkFN8yJy7SMmSAmJU7Gln51PVD2E5ChfM_nFrsX6QVROJ9dE
TESTIMONIAL & INDUSTRY QUOTES:
Julian is not just a word smith he's a word miner.... His jokes are up there with Delaney and Tim Vine's, but he goes deeper. His wordplay is the fruit of intense digging at the seam of gold - Noel James (well respected circuit comedian and BGT semi-finalist)
Julian Lee is jokes, jokes and more jokes. He has an affably engaging style with enduring Geordie appeal and is clearly in love with what he is doing which is always great to see. Crowds love it and him - Damion Larkin, LolComedy Club
Julian brought great energy and personality to the stage and finished my night off brilliantly with some well crafted one liners and some intentionally silly groaners, I will definitely be having him back - Steve Rimmer, Hull Comedy
Cleverly written jokes, brilliant original material, with a lovely spice of North East wit - Who Dares Grins (NW based comedy promoters)
He's got jokes that make me hurt laughing - Jason Cook (pro comedian, writer of Hebburn and Murder On The Blackpool Express)
So good I was quoting your jokes to my wife last night - Duncan Oakley (pro comedian)
Non-stop punnery... silly, inventive and very funny - Steve Gribbin (pro comedian)
Razor sharp one-liners that had me and the audience in fits of laughter - Barry Dodds (pro comedian and MC)
Gag machine. Hit after hit after hit - Chris Brooker (pro comedian and MC)
With a comfortable, professional, warm, Geordie stage presence, Julian Lee is the human joke book - Wreck the Mic Comedy
I highly recommend Julian to any promoters wanting a strong MC for their nights, great audience interaction cleverly linked to a series of gags and one liners. Top work! - Shoe Cake Comedy
Although Lee’s material seems to follow a conventional formula at first glance, it is quietly diverse, incorporating razor-wire punchlines, witty wordplay, punning brilliance, groan-worthy Dad jokes, certified side-splitters, highbrow oddities, lowbrow absurdism and anything and everything in between, all packed into the art of the quick-fire micro-joke... This style of comedy is timeless - NE Volume
Sharp and droll one-liner merchant, Lee is a formidable talent - Giggle Beats
His clever word play had people howling. He served them up in quick succession and the audience ate them up - The Shields Gazette
Julian Lee, meanwhile, is a wordsmith of real invention - The Crack
Clever word play, sharp observation, near the knuckle vignettes, puns aplenty, cheeky asides, confident performance, easily created rapport, yet also a sense of a humility - Fringe Review
One of the best one-liner comedians we've ever had at Cottingham - Cottingham Comedy Club
A hilarious and essential presence on any comedy line up - Chicken Box Comedy
A great one-liner comedian that always has a funny joke up his sleeve. Julian is professional and personable and a great addition to any line-up - Late Stage Comedy
A hilarious relentless pun machine - Clash of the Tight Tens
You were electric, the best comic I have seen since Ken Dodd at the Town Hall. You belong on television - Barry Windsor
Julian's words of wisdom: Never buy cheap sausages.
* The line-up for my first ever gig included the headliner Rich Hall and lower down the bill Simon Pegg.
If you want me to book comedy events for your venue then please email [email protected]***
Having spent most of my life making up 'daft jokes' it seemed unavoidable that I would dip my toe into the stand-up comedy pool. However, after just one disastrous gig* in the mid 90s, where alcohol and cheap dirty speed did not inspire me, I left comedy well alone. For good, or so I thought. Until the call grew too strong again in my mid forties. This time the 'debut' gig went much better, sobriety can be a positive thing, and I was back in the whirlwind of gigs, self-doubt and comedy politics.
Highlights so far have been being runner-up in Leicester Comedy Festival's UK Pun Championships twice on the trot (I know) in 2017 & 2018 (but in 2021 I won the online show at Leicester Comedy Festival which featured the 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 champions), being featured on Radio 4's 'Ross Noble's Newcastle'. I was invited to be on BBC Newcastle's 'Jesting About' for two successive years. I was also a writer and performer on their Grin Up North Show. I reached the heats of the BBC New Comedy Awards in 2015. I took my first show, Jokebox, to Edinburgh in 2018. In 2021 I wrote a joke book of the same name.
I have a YouTube channel, so please go and Subscribe.
I have opened for Cottingham Comedy Club, Buzz Comedy, Bradford Comedy Club, Mirth Control, Laffa Cakes, Shoe Cake Comedy, The Laughing Pug, Wreck the Mic Comedy plus smaller one-off Northern gigs.
Done paid middles for Hilarity Bites, Comedy Lounge Hull, Funhouse Comedy, Cal's Comedy Club and other smaller one-off local gigs.
I've also headlined for Hull Comedy and Felt Nowt.
I've MC-d for Big Red, Shoe Cake Comedy, The Laughing Pug, Felt Nowt, Mirth Control, Smiles Better and Red Raw. I am also regularly asked to MC music and charity gigs.
I also work closely with Felt Nowt, a new comedy co-operative in the North East. (So if you have a venue and you're in the North East please get in touch). Please check them out: www.feltnowt.co.uk
I have been fortunate enough to gig alongside people like Gary Delaney, Scott Bennett, Troy Hawke, Jason Cook, Andy Askins, Carl Hutchinson, Noel James, Nina Gilligan, Mick Ferry, John Hastings, Alistair Barrie, Mary Bourke, Tez Ilyas, Dan Nightingale, Sindhu Vee, Will Franken, Danny Posthill, Pete Selwood, Lloyd Griffiths and a load more funny people.
Here's a link to my publisher's website:
www.dreams-edge.co.uk/julian-lee
And here's a rather wonderful review of my joke book, Julian Lee's Jokebox from NE Volume: nevolume.co.uk/culture/literature/literature-newcastle-comic-julian-lee-releases-new-book/?fbclid=IwAR1i7Dx2lfsOkFN8yJy7SMmSAmJU7Gln51PVD2E5ChfM_nFrsX6QVROJ9dE
TESTIMONIAL & INDUSTRY QUOTES:
Julian is not just a word smith he's a word miner.... His jokes are up there with Delaney and Tim Vine's, but he goes deeper. His wordplay is the fruit of intense digging at the seam of gold - Noel James (well respected circuit comedian and BGT semi-finalist)
Julian Lee is jokes, jokes and more jokes. He has an affably engaging style with enduring Geordie appeal and is clearly in love with what he is doing which is always great to see. Crowds love it and him - Damion Larkin, LolComedy Club
Julian brought great energy and personality to the stage and finished my night off brilliantly with some well crafted one liners and some intentionally silly groaners, I will definitely be having him back - Steve Rimmer, Hull Comedy
Cleverly written jokes, brilliant original material, with a lovely spice of North East wit - Who Dares Grins (NW based comedy promoters)
He's got jokes that make me hurt laughing - Jason Cook (pro comedian, writer of Hebburn and Murder On The Blackpool Express)
So good I was quoting your jokes to my wife last night - Duncan Oakley (pro comedian)
Non-stop punnery... silly, inventive and very funny - Steve Gribbin (pro comedian)
Razor sharp one-liners that had me and the audience in fits of laughter - Barry Dodds (pro comedian and MC)
Gag machine. Hit after hit after hit - Chris Brooker (pro comedian and MC)
With a comfortable, professional, warm, Geordie stage presence, Julian Lee is the human joke book - Wreck the Mic Comedy
I highly recommend Julian to any promoters wanting a strong MC for their nights, great audience interaction cleverly linked to a series of gags and one liners. Top work! - Shoe Cake Comedy
Although Lee’s material seems to follow a conventional formula at first glance, it is quietly diverse, incorporating razor-wire punchlines, witty wordplay, punning brilliance, groan-worthy Dad jokes, certified side-splitters, highbrow oddities, lowbrow absurdism and anything and everything in between, all packed into the art of the quick-fire micro-joke... This style of comedy is timeless - NE Volume
Sharp and droll one-liner merchant, Lee is a formidable talent - Giggle Beats
His clever word play had people howling. He served them up in quick succession and the audience ate them up - The Shields Gazette
Julian Lee, meanwhile, is a wordsmith of real invention - The Crack
Clever word play, sharp observation, near the knuckle vignettes, puns aplenty, cheeky asides, confident performance, easily created rapport, yet also a sense of a humility - Fringe Review
One of the best one-liner comedians we've ever had at Cottingham - Cottingham Comedy Club
A hilarious and essential presence on any comedy line up - Chicken Box Comedy
A great one-liner comedian that always has a funny joke up his sleeve. Julian is professional and personable and a great addition to any line-up - Late Stage Comedy
A hilarious relentless pun machine - Clash of the Tight Tens
You were electric, the best comic I have seen since Ken Dodd at the Town Hall. You belong on television - Barry Windsor
Julian's words of wisdom: Never buy cheap sausages.
* The line-up for my first ever gig included the headliner Rich Hall and lower down the bill Simon Pegg.
