Dave Lamb (born 1969) is a British actor and voice-over artist best known for his work on Come Dine with Me as well as appearances in British television and radio programmes, especially comedy programmes. He also currently presents the CBBC game show Horrible Histories: Gory Games.
Lamb's first noted credit was in the 1998 British sitcom How Do You Want Me? 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 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.
Dave Lamb was one of the main voice-over artists on satirical cartoon 2DTV alongside Jan Ravens and Jon Culshaw but he gained cult status through his sarcastic voice-overs on dinner party show Come Dine With Me. He also provides the voice-over on the BBC CBeebies animation Big Barn Farm.
In 2005 Lamb started voice-over work on Come Dine with Me in which four or five members of the public take turns in hosting dinner parties. 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.
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. He also played a police officer in the 1960s Only Fools and Horses prequel Rock & Chips, shown on BBC One on New Year's Day 2011.
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