Lee Simpson
- Actor, writer, director and comedian
Press clippings
Ruth Bratt joins The Comedy Store Players
Improv group The Comedy Store Players are to be joined by a new core member for the first time in almost thirty years. Ruth Bratt will start performing at the weekly show from March.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd February 2024Comedy Store Players announce improv tour
Four of the original Comedy Store Players improv troupe will perform a number of tour dates early next year.
British Comedy Guide, 29th September 2023Comedy Store Players improvised show to stream online
The Comedy Store Players, the UK's longest-running improvisation team, will be putting a show online for the very first time since they started in 1985.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 18th May 2020New Edinburgh Fringe shows go on sale
A new batch of Fringe shows at the Pleasance, including Dane Baptiste, Paul Merton, NewsRevue and Wizard Presents, are now on sale.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th February 2020Review: Paul Merton's Impro Chums
Paul Merton and his talented comedy cast took fans on a journey from the surreal to the seriously clever.
Samantha Gildea, Leeds Live, 8th June 2019Pleasance announces their first Edinburgh Fringe shows
After a record year in 2018 in which the Pleasance artists won two Fringe Firsts, two Herald Angels, one Herald Archangel award and the Holden Street Theatres Award, and Pleasance acts won both Best Newcomer and Best Show at the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Awards, Pleasance are back with another fantastic programme. Kicking things off the Pleasance Theatre Trust have already put shows on sale.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 31st January 2019Channel 4's new Comedy Blaps for December 2017
Channel 4 has made four new shows for its Comedy Blaps pilots strand. The episodes star Rhys Darby, Rufus Jones, Felicity Ward, Morgana Robinson and more.
British Comedy Guide, 21st December 2017Suki Webster's Guest Speaker review
It was all lapped up by a full and enthusiastic audience at The Miller in London Bridge. Possibly too enthusiastic as the rugger-club hollers of 'way-hay' on every innuendo (of which there were quite a few) and haughty guffaws even on set-up lines are a distraction for everyone else, and sometimes the improvisers.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 16th June 2017Latitude review: Paul Merton's Imro Chums
Paul Merton, whose popularity is clear by the length of the queue for The Theatre Tent (and the looks of horror from those arriving to join the back) joins Latitude for a rather early slot on the bill, joined by some Impro Chums, ready to lighten the moods of an increasingly-tired crowd.
Nicole Evans, The Reviews Hub, 16th July 2016Paul Merton's Impro Chums review
I laughed so much I thought at one point my last sight on Earth would be Mike McShane sitting imperiously as a King, waxing lyrical in perfect Shakespeare about an imaginary fish flapping at his feet, while Lee Simpson adopted the guise of a Geordie to trick the Princess into marrying him. Utter comedy genius.
Dave Jennings, British Theatre Guide, 26th May 2015