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Jack Dee

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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.


— Jack Dee


#flattened #function #i #long #out

I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.


— Jack Dee


#almost #become #came #comedian #comedy

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.


— Jack Dee


#attitude #else #getting #i #just

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.


— Jack Dee


#any #because #been #clique #gang

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.


— Jack Dee


#badly #become #comedians #failed #i

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.


— Jack Dee


#been #comedic #fitting #fitting in #many

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.


— Jack Dee


#constantly #disturbing #drawn #feet #found

Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.


— Jack Dee


#appear #excited #fear #getting #going

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.


— Jack Dee


#character #corner #did #else #everything

One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.


— Jack Dee


#friends #life #murder #now #weekend






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Lead Balloon


Notes and. Life and career
In his twenties Dee worked at the Ritz and started drinking heavily. He is well known in the United Kingdom for writing and starring in the sitcom Lead Balloon for being a team captain on Shooting Stars and for hosting Jack Dee: Live at the Apollo which was nominated for a BAFTA in 2006.

James Andrew Innes "Jack" Dee (born 24 September 1961) is an English stand-up comedian actor and writer known for his sarcastic witty and deadpan humour. He is well known in the United Kingdom for writing and starring in the sitcom Lead Balloon for being a team captain on Shooting Stars and for hosting Jack Dee: Live at the Apollo which was nominated for a BAFTA in 2006. He also hosted The Jack Dee Show Jack Dee's Saturday Night and Jack Dee's Happy Hour.

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