Olivia Lee is an English comedienne

Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...

, actress and television presenter.

Life and career

Lee is from a Jewish family. She studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama

Central School of Speech and Drama

The Central School of Speech and Drama was founded in London in 1906 by Elsie Fogerty to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students...

Lee went on to land a presenting job alongside Simon Amstell

Simon Amstell

Simon Marc Amstell is a BAFTA nominated, award-winning English comedian, television presenter, screenwriter and actor, best known for his roles as former co-host of Popworld, former host of Never Mind the Buzzcocks and co-writer and star of the sitcom Grandma's House.-Early life:Amstell was born...

 on Channel 4

Channel 4

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's T4. She later appeared on a comedy show called Balls of Steel

Balls of Steel (UK TV series)

Balls of Steel is a Channel 4 comedy series developed by Objective Productions and hosted by Mark Dolan, his special guests would perform stunts and hold their nerve during hidden camera set-ups in the presence of celebrities or the British public....

 where she, among other pranks, interviewed celebrities with a penis shaped microphone. After gaining success she was given her own show on Channel 4 called Naughty Bits, and appeared doing hidden camera pranks on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

In 2006, Lee was interviewed and featured in a photoshoot for FHM

FHM

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 magazine. She also appeared in an episode of The Basil Brush Show in 2004.

In March 2009, Lee appeared as a guest on the internet talk show Tom Green's House Tonight.

Currently she has her own hidden camera show called Dirty Sexy Funny

Dirty Sexy Funny

Dirty Sexy Funny is a British television comedy series which first aired in April 2010 on the Comedy Central channel. It stars Olivia Lee. In the show, Lee takes on an array of personas which include a woman with OCD who is interviewing potential flatmates for her apartment; a nightclub promotions...

, which originally piloted on Channel 4 in 2008.
It was commissioned by Comedy Central

Comedy Central (UK)

Comedy Central in the United Kingdom and Ireland is a localised version of Comedy Central which first began in the United States in the 1990s. The television channel is available through the Sky, Virgin Media, TalkTalk TV in the United Kingdom, Sky Ireland, UPC Ireland and Magnet Networks in the...

 and began airing in March 2010. Lee was also the host of Fox Reality Channel

Fox Reality Channel

Fox Reality Channel was an all reality television channel available on cable and satellite television in the United States. It was launched on May 24, 2005 and was owned by the Fox Entertainment Group. It featured many shows that were previously on the Fox network...

 game show, Battle of the Bods

Battle of the Bods

Battle of the Bods is a Fox Reality Channel show, hosted by Olivia Lee. Devised by Endemol, it is based on the short lived British show Hot Tub Ranking ....

before Fox Reality's dissolution ended its run.

In 2010, Lee appeared in monthly segments on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that initially aired from May 25, 1992 to May 29, 2009, and resumed production on March 1, 2010. The fourth incarnation of the Tonight Show franchise made its debut on May 25, 1992, three days following Johnny...

, an American

United States

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late-night television show.