Les McQueen

Appears in:
Series 1, Series 2, Live at Drury Lane, Series 3

Played By:
Mark Gatiss

Quickie Bio:
Poor Les... he was once a member (rhythm guitarist) of the band Crème Brulee, and how he likes to look back and pine for his "nearly there" rockstar days. Crème Brulee did the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981, and was nearly signed to Pickwick in '76. Their big hit was "Voodoo Lady"

In the Second Series, Les learns that Crème Brulee has reformed and is touring. He goes to their show, where he sees that they have found a replacement for him (played by Jeremy). Lead singer Tony Cluedo doesn't even recognize him. When he learns from Tony that Brulee was going to make a comeback but the funding fell through, he offers his redundancy. He arrives in full uniform for the press-conference, only to discover that he's been had.

Has a job at the St. Mary of Bethlehem Hospital helping the elderly and disabled. He occassionally fills in for the hospital's DJ, Mike King. In series 2 he shirks his responsibilities to sit up and play Crème Brulee records all night, and some "loonies" escape from the ward...

In Series 3 we see him serving as MC of the "Miss Elegance Pageant" (attended by the Glass family).

Useless Trivia:
  • Les is based on someone they know who used to work in the record industry. After experiencing the feeling of being "almost there", their friend cannot quite let go of his past, and is always melancholy about it.


    • Quotes:
  • It's a shit business
  • I’d walk in a urinal and heads would turn!
  • Heeeeeyyyyyy...




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    Series 2

    Live at Drury Lane

    Series 3
    Bob Chagnall

    Appears in:
    Series 2

    Played By:
    Steve Pemberton

    Quickie Bio:
    Crème Brulee's keyboardist. Also writes songs. Is touring with the re-formed band.



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    Patch Lafeyette

    Appears in:
    Series 2

    Played By:
    Reece Shearsmith

    Quickie Bio:
    Crème Brulee's drummer. Also writes songs. Is touring with the re-formed band.



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    Thom McQueen

    Appears in:
    Series 1

    Played By:
    Colin Parry

    Quickie Bio:
    Les' son. Friend of Shack.



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    		 Series 1
    Shack

    Appears in:
    Series 1

    Played By:
    Ameet Channa

    Quickie Bio:
    Friend of Thom, Les' son. He's in the music biz -- does sampling and looping. He endures Les' talk about the old times. Les gives him a tape, but he doesn't take it.

    Quotes:
  • Shack is based on a guy named "Chalk" (if I'm hearing the commentary correctly) who was in a real band that did okay and gained a bit of notoriety.




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    		 Series 1
    Stevens

    Appears in:
    Series 1

    Played By:
    Ross McCormack

    Quickie Bio:
    Guitarist in a covers band. Hired by Geoff to play the music at Mike & Cheryl's wedding reception. He shuns the advances of Les, who offers his services as rhythm guitarist when their usual one doesn't show up.

    Useless Trivia:
  • Stevens was named for the head of "Global Chemicals" in the Dr. Who episode Dr. Who and the Green Death
  • Steve used to play Stevens on stage


    • Quotes:
  • It's not gonna happen, all right?




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    		 Series 1
    Maynard

    Appears in:
    Series 1

    Played By:
    Mike Flanagan

    Quickie Bio:
    Roadie for Stevens' band

    Useless Trivia:
    The actor who plays Maynard can also be seen as Robert, one of Pauline's unfortunate job-seekers.



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    Tony Cluedo

    Appears in:
    Series 2

    Played By:
    Ted Robbins

    Quickie Bio:
    Lead singer of Crème Brulee. Is touring again with the re-formed band. He doesn't recognize Les when he approaches him. He really doesn't want Les in the band anymore, but Les doesn't see that. When he discovers that Les has come into a bit of money, he mentions that Crème Brulee was going to make a real comeback, but the funding fell through. When Les offered his savings, Tony took the money and disappeared.



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    Base Player

    Appears in:
    Series 2

    Played By:
    Ian Tully

    Quickie Bio:
    Base player of Crème Brulee. Is touring again with the re-formed band.

    Useless Trivia:
  • Ian Tully is a properties buyer for the second series of The League of Gentlemen. He also appears as a Crowd Man during the mob scene at the local shop.




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