Lee Kyle, Burning This Place to the Ground
Arts Centre Washington
Friday 7th
July 2017
During his decade-long run as a
professional wrestler, Lee Kyle battled alongside WWE superstars like Daniel Bryan,
Neville, Road Dogg and D-Lo Brown. Before that, he spent much of the late
nineties playing Mel B in an all male Spice Girls tribute act.
His life has been a never ending
quest to not have a real job.
Now he's rolling with the
punches on the comedy circuit, as his debut stand up tour comes to Arts Centre Washington on 7th
July.
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"The show is called Burning
This Place to the Ground and it's basically about making grand plans that never
come to fruition," Lee, 37, from South Shields, tells
us.
"But it’s way sillier than
that sounds, I can proudly say that people will leave the show not having
learned anything, except for a pretty excellent fact about Butch Dingle from
Emmerdale.”
In 2016 Lee saw his first book,
Spandex Ballet, about his time as a wrestler released and become a surprise
hit.
"It's not something I
expected" Lee says “I wrote the book more as an accompaniment to another
stand up show I was writing but it ended up being the top selling wrestling
book on Amazon UK for a number of weeks and, gratifyingly, has proven popular
among comedy fans too. It was outselling the likes of James Corden for a short
time and, although that couldn’t last, it was pleasing and ridiculous to find
myself in Amazon’s top ten comedy biographies for a short while.”
Last year also saw Lee compose
two different hour long comedy shows, including this one which he took to the
Edinburgh fringe, as well as his first ever kids comedy tour show, an interesting
and unusual career diversion which has seen him work with Jedward and appear on
CBBC.
He appeared on Ross Noble’s
‘History of Geordie Comedy’ on Radio 4 and has a video on youtube with over 3
million views, with many comments from Americans who don’t understand his
accent.
His podcast ‘Which is the Best?’
has proven popular with listeners and has translated into a succesful live
show, it is, oddly, surprisingly popular in the Pacific island nation of Palau.
It features Lee and his support act for much of this tour, Sammy Dobson (From
BBCs Boy Meets Girl and the feature film I, Daniel Blake).
Tickets:
Tickets:
Lee Kyle, Burning This Place to
the Ground comes to Arts Centre Washington on
Friday 7 July, 7.30pm. Tickets are £8 and are available from www.artscentrewashington.co.uk
or by calling 0191 561 3455.
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