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Dave Lamb
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Dave Lamb is a British actor and voice-over artist best known for his work on Come Dine with Me as well as appearances in a wide variety of other British television and radio programmes, especially comedy programmes.



Lamb's first noted credit was in the 1998 British sitcom How Do You Want Me?[1] Although his first notable appearances were in Indian sketch show Goodness Gracious Me being the only recurring white male in the cast. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s he also appeared in a variety of comedy programmes such as People Like Us, Hippies, Armstrong and Miller, The Smoking Room and Fun at the Funeral Parlour as well as having a brief role in a couple of episodes of Eastenders. He made a brief appearance in DIY SOS, he is a qualified plumber.
[edit] Voice-over work

Dave Lamb was also one of the main voice-over artists on satirical cartoon 2DTV alongside Jan Ravens and Jon Culshaw[2] but he gained cult status through his satirical voice-overs on dinner party show Come Dine With Me.
[edit] How Clean Is Your House

He also featured as the voice over in How Clean Is Your House for 3 years running.
[edit] Come Dine with Me

In 2005 Lamb started voice-over work on Channel 4's daytime programme Come Dine with Me in which four or five members of the public take turns in hosting dinner parties. During the programme Lamb's commentary is often biting and insulting to the contestants giving his own opinion on the food that is being cooked. In an interview he claimed that in the first series he did do quite a lot of ad-libbing but the show's writers know how to write for his voice now. He also stated that he would never take part in a celebrity edition as he wasn't famous enough to participate.[3]
[edit] Recent TV appearances

Recently, Lamb had two main-cast roles in T.V. sitcoms firstly as producer Des in The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle (broadcast October 2007) and in early 2008 he played put-upon T.V. writer Carl Morris in ITV's Moving Wallpaper.
[edit] Radio

Lamb was a member of radio comedy troupe The Cheese Shop and has also featured quite predominantly on radio recording three series of The Bigger Issues as well as featuring on 15 Minute Musical, No Future in Eternity, The Big Town All Stars, The Very World of Milton Jones and The Way It Is. He has also recorded two series of a radio drama entitled London, Europe for Radio 4, which he also wrote.[4]
[edit] Stage work

Lamb made his stage debut alongside Russ Abbot and Eric Sykes in 2003 in a production of Ray**ey's "Caught In The Net" at the Vaudeville Theatre.[5]
[edit] Eurovision

A number of fans had suggested that if Terry Wogan were to stop commentating on the Eurovision Song Contest, Lamb would be an ideal replacement. Lamb thought Wogan's shoes were too big to fill but liked the idea of "sitting in a booth with a bottle of whiskey and getting angry about the Eurovision Song Contest".[3]

Roland Rivron was on the show as a contestant!