comedy
Sean Lock
If you're a Channel 4 viewer, you probably consider Sean Lock a sort of Jack Dee lite, but it ain't so, sista. Lock is nothing but a hero and survivor of the 1980s/early 90s' alternative comedy scene. While Alexei Sayles has become a cringe-inducing caricature, Sean Lock has been playing the long game. His kitchen-sink surrealism is as fresh now as it was in 1992 on The Funny Farm. His enthusiasm for misery is catching, and his own peculiar strain of ennui is best explored in the chronically underrated 50 Storeys High, the second series of which was co-written by yours truly's desperate childhood crush, Mark Lamarr. Lock plays the unlikeliest water attendant since Pamela Anderson, while snapshotting the strange and wonderful things that happen within the Mao-esque compartments of a high rise. The man's a genius. On and off of panel shows. / Cora Burke
