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series which first aired in March 2010 on the Comedy Central channel. It stars

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. In the show, Lee takes on an array of personas which include a woman with obsessive-compulsive disorder who is interviewing potential flatmates for her apartment; a nightclub promotions girl who cordons off public walkways, preventing pedestrians from accessing it and professes to them that the walkway leads to a nightclub; a temp on her first day in the office who always uses a loud pencil sharpener and keeps asking "Is everything alright?" and a mother who returns 'faulty electrical equipment' to a shop and complains that they don't work. The items in question are plays on words. For example, in the first episode, she takes a live white mouse to the shop as opposed to a

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. Another of her characters is Miss Single, a

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who attaches herself to men she has never met before, in each case claiming to be in a relationship with him. It was originally to be aired in October 2009, but was aired on 8 March 2010. In 2012, Lee joined the cast of ''

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s second series where she plays a similar role.

Episodes

Series 1:
Episode 1 (Broadcast 8 March 2010)
Episode 2 (Broadcast 15 March 2010)
Episode 3 (Broadcast 22 March 2010)
Episode 4 (Broadcast 29 March 2010)
Episode 5 (Broadcast 5 April 2010)
Episode 6 (Broadcast 12 April 2010)
Episode 7 (Broadcast 12 April 2010)
Episode 8 (Broadcast 30 April 2010) Series 2:
Episode 1 (Broadcast 28 March 2011)
Episode 2 (Broadcast 4 April 2011)
Episode 3 (Broadcast 11 April 2011)
Episode 4 (Broadcast 18 April 2011)
Episode 5 (Broadcast 25 April 2011)
Episode 6 (Broadcast 2 May 2011)
Episode 7 (Broadcast 9 May 2011)
Episode 8 (Broadcast 16 May 2011, this episode is a collection of sketches featured in the previous 7 episodes)

References

External links

* * *{{IMDb title, 1615697 2010s British comedy television series 2010 British television series debuts English-language television shows Hidden camera television series Television series by Endemol