NOT GOING OUT

It has already enjoyed 13 series, 100 episodes and cemented Lee as a household name, but Not Going Out – the BBC1 sitcom that he writes and stars in – ‘came about by accident,’ he says. ‘I was doing a stand-up show at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998 and it was so bad that I remember thinking, “If I ever come back, I want someone stood next to me also going down in flames!” So I got together with [comedian] Catherine Tate and we did a sketch show with a scene that was set in a flat. I parked it, t...