The 1% Club host Lee Mack is unrecognisable without beard in unearthed video

Lee Mack is best known for hosting The 1% Club and acting in Not Going Out, but the comedian looks so different in an old video clip, where he’s without his now-trademark beard

Comedian and actor Lee Mack is hardly recognisable in a resurfaced video where he appears without his now-trademark beard. The host of The 1% Club, ITV’s fiendishly-addicted gameshow, is seen looking very young in a viral clip on Facebook and TikTok, titled ‘The reason why tickets machines were invented’.

The sketch – which sees a frustrated woman trying to buy a train ticket to Halifax from a ticket office vendor, played by an extremely fresh-faced Lee – was clearly filmed way before the comedian shot to fame with The 1% Club and the popular BBC sitcom Not Going Out. Yet it somehow manages to be bang up to date, as the vendor asks the woman: “Would you like a carriage that doesn’t allow the use of …