Lee Nelson's Well Good Show
| Lee Nelson's Well Good Show | |
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| Genre | Sketch show, Stand-up comedy |
| Written by | Simon Brodkin |
| Directed by | Peter Orton |
| Presented by | Simon Brodkin |
| Starring | Terry Noble Kathy Berry Ben Willbond |
| Theme music composer | Dizzee Rascal – "Flex" (instrumental) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 15 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Richard Allen-Turner Jonn Thoday |
| Producer(s) | Spencer Millman |
| Editor(s) | Graham Barker |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Avalon Television |
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| Original network | BBC Three |
| Original release | 10 June 2010 – 13 October 2011 |
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| Related shows |
Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder Lee Nelson's Well Funny People |
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| Website | |
| Production website | |
Lee Nelson's Well Good Show was a British comedy sketch show, written and presented by Simon Brodkin, and produced by Avalon Television for BBC Three. It featured Brodkin hosting a studio based show as his comedy character Lee Nelson, a happy-go-lucky chav, and also featured television sketches of Brodkin's other comedy characters.
The BBC commissioned the show in 2009. Written by Brodkin it was produced by Avalon Television.
The programme consists of Brodkin (in character as Nelson throughout) hosting a studio show before an audience, which includes audience interaction, games (which contain unusual prizes, such as a pair of sunglasses, a victory belt and a tree), and features involving the characters Omelette, and Nelson's nan. The programme also includes inserted recorded sketches featuring three other characters also portrayed by Brodkin: due to time limitations, in some episodes only two insert sketches would feature, though in others all three would appear. The insert sketches are:
Some of the characters have appeared previously in Brodkin's earlier TV work: sketches featuring the Jason Bent character appeared in Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder, an Avalon production first broadcast on ITV1 in 2009; these featured Murray as a sports reporter conducting post-match interviews with Bent. The same Al Murray series also featured the Lee Nelson character in a run of comic monologues. In 2008, the Dr. Bob character had appeared (as 'Dr. Omprakash') in BBC Three comedy showcase series The Wall.
Despite popular appeal, the show has received mainly negative reviews from critics. Liam Tucker of TV Pixie writes, 'Lee Nelson's Well Good Show is less ‘well good’ and more a pile of irredeemable crap littered with witless demi-jokes, all limping along on the questionable talent of Simon Brodkin. Presumably someone at BBC Three saw that he looks a little like Kevin Bishop, noticed that Ali G hasn’t been around for the best part of a decade and calculated success on that shaky basis.' Stuart Heritage of The Guardian remarks in an article concerning the justification behind Television Show names that 'BBC3's Lee Nelson's Well Good Show suffers from the fact that it's almost the exact scientific opposite of well good.' Despite the negative reviews, ratings were such that the BBC commissioned a second show, Lee Nelson's Well Funny People.
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