Lee Kyle

Have written lots of shows and directed more than a dozen, happy to send you a list of names of people I've worked with who will vouch that I've made their shows much better.

Looking at doing your first Edinburgh Fringe show next year?

I'm doing a series of Zoom workshops about writing a stand up show every Tuesday evening in September.

Comment below if you're interested and I'll be in touch next week with details and references.

The idea that education is the same thing as job-training and no more than that is so disheartening.

Getting a job isn’t the goal. Human flourishing is the goal. Getting a job might be a step to flourishing, (or not) but to think “job” is the top of the mountain rather than base camp is so sad.

“When you look at someone through rose-coloured glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.” That’s a fucking quote man.

And right to the end, you think you know how it finishes. But, unlike other shows, he’s not getting off the hook like that. Because we all have to keep going.

I’ve seen nothing like this.

It’s about fame and generational trauma and addiction and guilt and toxic positivity and death and loneliness and abuse and the idea of ‘good trauma’ and growth and relationships and a million more things.

But you still have to live.

And I’ve just talked about the main character. There’s so much more. So much. Characters that you think are just comedic foils are actually deeply complex and deeply real.

It’s funny and devastating.

But you are also offered a glimmer of hope always. By the idea that if you can accept your flaws and make genuine efforts, change is possible. Even if it’s the hardest thing.

And even though it may not happen. And that even if it does, nobody owes you forgiveness.

And because you see his back story you do understand why he does things because humans are complicated.

And, unlike other shows, he’s not an anti hero. You aren’t invited to grudgingly think he’s still pretty cool. You are invited to find his actions disgusting. And you do.

But through the series, some of his actions are so unforgivable you see him differently.

It’s a sitcom but it’s a sitcom where things matter. Where everything matters, where it’s not enough to say something glib.

And BoJack himself is a real person (and a horse). He’s the main character so you naturally empathise with him.

Seemingly minor details come back years later, your actions matter. Characters change and grow.

You know sitcoms? Everything is wrapped up in 30 minutes, things work out in the end, big gestures solve everything and you never need learn and grow.

Not in this. Everything has consequences and nobody is left off the hook.

It’s the most heartpunchingly real thing I’ve ever seen. Even more than real life.

So it’s about a horse who was a star in a Cosby Show style sitcom in the nineties and still sees life through the prism of sitcoms. He’s stuck in the mindset he was in when he first got famous.

And it’s none of that. It’s setting you up for something different where you’ll never see what’s coming.

It’s a silly cartoon. It is. In the first few episodes you’ll think you know what this is. A lighthearted but of fun, with wacky side characters and a will they/won’t they love story. You’ll think the jokes are okay but not early Simpsons funny by any means.

If pushed, it’s probably not too much of a stretch to say it’s the best piece of art I’ve ever experienced. And I’ve seen the Michelangelo’s David and all my gigs.

I know it’s from a few years ago now and not obscure, but if you haven’t seen it I recommend it to anyone.

Why? Loads of reasons.

Prisoner: Cell Block H will always be my favourite show, it’s too tied into my life, memories and experiences for it not to be, and it’s great.

But BoJack is the best show I’ve ever seen.

I think about BoJack Horseman a lot.

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Have directed award winning shows and am currently working on 7 solo debut shows and one theatre tour.

I'll also be contactable for advice after the workshops and you will receive a pdf of the book I'm working on on this same topic, which will be finished in June at the latest!

I've directed many stand up shows, and specialise in working on debut shows. I am very happy with non debutants too.

STARTING NEXT TUESDAY FOR PEOPLE WRITING THEIR FIRST EDINBURGH SHOWS!

I'm doing a four week workshop over Zoom (So this time you don't have to be able to get to Newcastle!) about writing your first solo stand up show.

It's every Tuesday from 1st April at 6pm. Each session lasts roughly 2 hours.

Have directed award winning shows and am currently working on 7 solo debut shows and one theatre tour.

Tickets are here and the images show some nice things just some people I've worked with have said: www.tickettailor.com/events/feltn...

I'll also be contactable for advice after the end of the workshops and you will receive a pdf of the book I'm working on on this same topic, which will be finished in June at the latest!

I've directed many stand up shows, and specialise in working on debut shows.

Hi everyone,

I'm doing a four week workshop over Zoom (So this time you don't have to be able to get to Newcastle!) about writing your first solo stand up show.

It's a four week workshop over Zoom every Tuesday from 1st April at 6pm. Each session lasts roughly 2 hours.

KNARESBOROUGH (Frazer Theatre - 22nd Mar)
LIVERPOOL - (Hot Water Comedy Club - 23rd Mar)
WASHINGTON - (Arts Centre - 28th Mar)
BEDLINGTON - (Platform 1 - 11th Apr)
YORK - (Theatre @41 - 13th Apr)
NEWCASTLE - (Tyne Theatre & Opera House - 18th Apr)

SUNDERLAND (Carnival House - 21st February)
GLASGOW (The Stand Comedy Club - 24th Feb)
EDINBURGH (The Stand Comedy Club - 25th Feb)
DARLINGTON (The Forum - 13th Mar)
WHITBY (Coliseum Centre - 14th Mar )
GILSLAND (Gilsland Village Hall - 15th Mar)

My stand up tour Bottle It starts in Sunderland in a week!

Over the last few years, I've been putting messages in bottles in seas and rivers. But where? Have a look at this video to see where in the world they are then come and see me tell you all about it.

Dates/Venues below

www.imleekyle.com

I'm loving working with others these days, can't wait for these.

The shows are:
29th June: Matthew Wheelwright - Built Different
27th July: Mike Wardley- Who?
31st Aug: Kelly Edgar - Dogfish
28th Sept: Jack Fox - Rolls Royce
27th Oct: Sam Mayes - Come What Mayes
30th Nov | Kerris- Getting On

Just want to nudge you towards something I'm doing later this year at The Stand Comedy Club, Newcastle that I'm incredibly excited for.

It's a show called New Directions where I'm directing debut solo shows from some really promising North East comedians.

www.thestand.co.uk/news/new-dir...