After Dinner Speakers: Sean Meo, Felicity Kendall, Jeremy Lee

Sean Meo has been a stand up comic since 1989. Prior to that he had been a full time snooker player and was a quarter finalist in the English Amateur Championships of 1987. Following a highly successful run in the 1991 Edinburgh Festival, Sean became one of the resident comperes for London’s Screaming Blue Murder Clubs where his accessible and easygoing approach proved very popular. In the next two years, playing clubs and universities throughout the UK, his natural comic style developed, combining observational humour about everyday situations with gags that probe the more bizarre aspects of human behaviour. In April 1993, he made his first appearance at Jongleurs and a succession of bookings at one of London’s leading clubs followed. His considerable abilities as a writer were spotted by The Comedy Store’s The Cutting Edge and having filled in during the Summer months, he became a regular member of their ‘A’ Team. Indeed, his “turnover” of material remains more impressive than most of his contemporaries and he has been asked to write and perform specific sets for various corporate functions. Recent corporate clients include British Petroleum, British Telecom, Anderson Consulting, Chrysler Jeeps, PC Direct, Forte Post House, Comet, Chemical Bank, Volvo and the Press Advertising Awards. Though he had worked on television before, including “Mr Bean” and “Bottom”, in September 1993, he made his television debut as a stand up on LWT’s “Dial Midnight”. An appearance on “Comedy Club” followed almost immediately. He was also commissioned to write and perform some routines for “Talking About Sex”, a series of sex education programmes for Channel 4 Schools which aired in January - February 1994. After his debut appearance on Radio 1’s “Loose Talk” in March 1994, he joined a select group of British comics as a guest on TeleAmerica’s “Comedy On The Road”, part of A & E’s legendary “Evening At The Improv” series for transmission in the U.S.A. other television appearances in 1994 included LWT’s “Tarbuck Late”, “Summer In The City”, BBC1, “Comedy Rules”, STV and “The London Comedy festival” for Carlton Television. In 1995, he presented “Comedy Network” for BBC Radio 1 and television appearances included “The Stand Up Show”, BBC 1, “Talking Telephone Numbers” and “Celebrity Squares”, ITV Network. As well as another appearance on “Tarbuck Late”, he was enrolled as a member of the script writing team for the whole series. In the Autumn he presented “The Front Row”, a series of arts and entertainment programmes for Anglia Television. 1996 saw an appearance on BBC 1’s “Gagtag” as well as a theatre tour of the U.K. with Lee Hurst through April and May.