Matt Lacey
Matt Lacey

Matt Lacey

  • Stand-up comedian and actor

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Matt Lacey's 10 Edinburgh questions

He used to be in Unexpected Items (of Gap Yah fame), and he used to be in the teaching game - meet character comic Matt Lacey ...

London Is Funny, 13th August 2013

Marmite Fringe

I both love and hate Edinburgh.

Matt Lacey, The Huffington Post, 2nd August 2013

Gap Yah star launches world tour campaign

In a bid to help more students get their travel time, BIC 4-Colours [you know, those multi-coloured pens that allow you to doodle the South Korea flag during lectures] is holding a 'Gapaway' competition, fronted by Gap Yah legend Orlando Charmon, aka Matt Lacey.

Tommy Holgate, The Sun, 7th March 2012

Matt Lacey - Man of the yah

Sitting in his unprepossessing council flat on a Hackney estate, stand-up comedian Matt Lacey produces a Jack Wills gilet, pashmina scarf and traditional Mongolian hat. The 25-year-old son of an Irish engineer says he wouldn't be seen dead in any of it, but Lacey's comical alter ego, Orlando, the 18-year-old public schoolboy whose Gap Yah sketch became last year's YouTube sensation, wears nothing else.

Katie Law, Evening Standard, 14th October 2011

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