Comedian Sean Lock, best known for panel shows 8 Out Of 10 Cats and 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, has died aged 58, his agent told the PA news agency
, including his friend, the comedian Lee Mack, who said:"I've known this day was coming for some time, but it's no less heartbreaking."A true original both in comedy and life. I will miss him so much.""It's heartbreaking to lose my dearest friend Sean Lock, he was a true original, a wonderful comic. All my thoughts are with his family," Bailey tweeted.
His early professional TV appearances were in 1993, starring alongside Rob Newman and David Baddiel in Newman And Baddiel In Pieces. The show was set in a tower block and centred on a pessimistic character called Vince and his flatmate Errol, played by Benedict Wong. In 2006, Lock presented and produced TV Heaven, Telly Hell on Channel 4, where guests discussed their likes and dislikes about TV.
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