Dealing With A Difficult Electrician | Jack Dee: So What? Live 

I used to work with quite a funny German guy (a nation not known for it's humour). He was having problems with a plumber who would turn up without tools or just turn up but not do anything. He got off the phone to the plumber, obviously a little stressed by having to deal with the guy again and said in his deepest accent "Mike, zis wud never off happened if we'd won zee war". I laughed so much a spat my coffee out.

My husband is an electrician…sounds just like him…Me, “the light’s not come on in the kitchen “. Him, “did you flick the switch?”. 48 years - I’m feeling a bit tense.

Video engineer here, - Flew from Manchester to Edinburgh years ago to ‘fix’ a video recorder/player (u-matic 3/4 inch tape cassettes) for a financial services company. Fault found to be mains lead not plugged in !

What you dont realise it that experienced electricians have a mantra. 1. don't believe the customer. 2. don't believe the customer. 3. don't believe the customer.

I need help I’m watching comedy and I’m thinking cmon fuse box first 😂

Decent & honest Plumbers, Electricians and car Mechanics always offer the replaced part as proof the part was replaced, and work was completed. it's not required for the customer to take old part, but tradesman who offers you the old part are to be congratulated for their professionalism.

Jack Dee hasn’t aged at all! He looked like a grumpy old git when I saw him in the 90’s!

Sadly in London I can imagine people ‘outsourcing’ pencil sharping

I really laughed when he said tumble dryer for some reason. It was such good delivery. Doesn’t even really make sense plugging in a tumble dryer. He’s brilliant Jack.

Well Jack, I’m an electrician and not a single week goes by where I go to a call out and resolve an apparent “problem” by simply changing a light bulb with one that actually works or simply switch it back on… these people always tell me they’ve already changed the bulb and it’s definitely switched on. I always have a switch in the van, I’ll charge a minimum of an hour on a call out to fit it though, but I’ll be out the door in five minutes so don’t worry about the tea!

Recovering from some thoracic surgery - I think I busted my stitches!

I love the sound of a switch Jack makes. I add i sm a sparks

The phone charger punch line I nearly suffocated from laughing... and I'm not even sure why

I'll be honest, I didn't think this was some of Jack's strongest material - until that 'phone charger' bit at the end. Had me cracking up for 10 minutes straight. 😆

Good understated British humour.

Happy go lucky!!! Jack, you are a legend 🤣🤣🤣

My friend Sarah rang me asking for my help as her power had gone off. I asked her about her fuse box, but she was clueless about it (she'd just moved into a rented house), so I said that I'd come over. After crawling around in her under-the-stairs cupboard, I found that her fuse box had been switched off. It turned out that she'd dumped her mop and bucket into the cupboard and the mop had fallen and knocked the on/off switch on the fuse box! No fault. I made her promise to make sure that when she moved, she knew where the fuse box and stoptap were located. Luckily at her last house, the box was high on the hallway wall, so couldn't be accidentally knocked. She wasn't practical, but Sarah was a good friend and a real laugh. I miss you.

I’m a sparky with over 50 years experience and yes, I have had a customer who couldn’t operate a light switch. True story, much longer explanation needed though.

Good luck getting an electrician round here. And 25 quid per hour, try tripling that.

Been watching you for 30 years😂 you still the funniest comedian

I cry with laughter at anything he says he’s a comedy genius 👏👏👏

R.I.P. comedy. Was nice knowing you.

Any electrician would go straight to the consumer unit.

Jack Dee is VERY FUNNY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im an electician and Jacks joking at our expense is really affecting our careers and trade...........................;)

I’m just amazed you can get an electrician for £25 an hour!

My job is an electricity pricing analyst, mostly specialising in non-commodity costs. So even though I haven't got a clue how electricity works, I know exactly the anxiety Jack feels when someone charges their phone up in my house.

The only unbelievable part of this story, is an electrician charging £25! In London!!!!!

The world's funniest grouch😂

Jack got an electrician to come out on the same day?! Blimey!

Good to have you back Jack.

Jack Dee's persona is just so bloody Hilarious - Astonishingly Good Material. Truly a National Treasure

The first thing the electrician does is to put the switch on and off. In my computer days, when every computer was a desktop, I never ceased to be amazed how many user problems I solved simply by asking, "Is the computer plugged in and is the wall plug switched on?" (To be exact, as this was South Africa I asked, "Is it connected to Eskom?") Never overestimate the intelligence of the user, or L-user as they are called in computer support parlance.

I went out to a customer who said their cooker didn't work. Guess what? The switch on the wall wasn't turned on.

As it comes, "I have mustard in mine ".

SO FUNNY BECAUSE SO ACCURATE 🤣🤣🤣 SOUNDS LIKE SAME GUY I HAD TO TOLERATE RECENTLY !!!

Brilliant. Loved it ❤

Don’t ever trust an electrician that doesn’t check your main switch box and trips before making any other diagnoses 😮🇬🇧🌈♥️👍

Trip switch then the bulb and I ain't no electrician👍

Brilliant Jack

If your electrician shops at Homebase and charges you half hour to swap a switch, he’s not a electrician

Absolute legend 😂😂❤

Jack Dee = Legend...

Brilliant

£25 per hour.This was a long time ago.

Garage joke he’s been using for years and I still laugh. No one like Jack.

Brilliant. I laughed hard at that. Has he done any more recent shows?

My Grandmother honestly believed that electrickery was controlled by the switch nipping the supply off at the switch because it squeezed it much like it would a supply of water. Obvious really. lol.

Why is laughter good for the soul? Why is a sense of humour good to have?

Very good. 😂 I saw Jack live at Glasgow King's Theatre around 2010/11, great show. Any fans of Jack who have not seen his tv comedy series 'Lead Balloon' should check it out, it is absolutely brilliant. It has 4 series (wish there could have been more) and has a fantastic two-part finale. ♥

This got me thinking - would it be considered bad etiquette if you plugged in your electric car when visiting for dinner?

Just like watching an episode of Lead Balloon.

Love it😂😂

Since when do light switches break? What fresh hell is this , that I have to look forward to? I've only just found out that my family can put holes in towels!

Brilliant.

£25 + VAT for electricity work. That's about half the cost of skilled workers here across the North Sea.

Lucky you. Dont know how often it has happened to me that the damn thing works the minute the handyman touches it

Such a brilliant clip this

What the problem is most likely to have been is the MCB had tripped! So half an hour plus switch, plus drink! Oh and if you let him keep the switch! Don't fall for it!

- I have an auntie who puts SALT in her coffee.

I bet you checked the new switch to make sure it works

One thing I don't mess with at home is electrics. And gas. And plumbing. Quite a few things actually...

The electrician trying the switch is part of diagnosing faster as he will open it up & test it if it feels or sounds wrong ie clean click or crackling sounds (bad connection) flickering or starting but not staying on & changing the bulb may sound obvious but did you prove your new bulb works with a meter or substitution before you fitted it.

Reminds me of the old days when I had to phone up Dell helplines if my printer wasn't working. They'd almost always ask me if it was connected to the computer or if it was plugged in to an electricity source! Now why the fuck would I have called them if I hadn't actually tried the reliably two things that meant my printer had always worked in the past?

Big bad baby

9:24 female dara o'brien in the crowd ijbol

wonder why there was a seemingly random tangent about a handyman in the middle of this "joke"... it was about a handyman the whole time!

I bet we all know stories like that. The manager of the computer dept in central London was working from home, fifty miles away. His deputy called him in because the system had crashed. He drove fifty miles, stood in the middle of the room, and jumped up and down once: the system sprang to life. And he drove fifty miles home. The shiny new medical graduate, tasked with doing my echo, called the tech manager when he couldn't get it to work. I'd wondered why it was so quiet, and asked if he'd got it on mute. The tech manager walked over to the wall plug, flicked it on and walked out again.

I did enjoy that. And I'll change your toilet roll Jack. Only 40 quid call out charge plus vat 😂

Funny how electricians in Britain never carry basic spares despite previously being told what the symptoms are.Same with plumbers.

Classic!

Stewart Lee developed Jack's schtick.

Well, it's good to be grounded, but neutral's good too. You're likely to blow a fuse, live.

As an somewhat handyman I would have changed that switch myself. Just so that the professional fire fighters could come and do what they are handy at..

Whatever is easiest? Bloody nothing, definitely the easiest.

2:58 Maybe that electric dude thought you were a American? 😁😁👍👍

£25 an hour in London, 🤣😂😅and your next joke is…..

Since when has an electrician on a call out been £25 an hour ? 😉

Regarding the bit at the end, we just need to bring back manners. Me me me

Electricians comments.😂😂😂hilarious.it’s a story!for christs sake!!

£25 an hour l! When was this show filmed?

Absolutely brilliant.

Hehehe typical electrician 😅

It does not take half an hour to change a light switch.5 to 10 mins max.

Pencil sharpening? Sure, $100.

Haha

Brilliant 😂

Bugman

Hilarious but I missed the funny ending

feck me, i think we use the same electrician

Too long.....

£25 a hour?

I think you need a trip up to Scotland to vote against my independence you had man. Burst my bubble you try and try

Never forget this man pushed the Jabs..........NEVER forget.

People laugh because they paid to be there. The bit about the Gestapo grandfather, from one and a half decades ago: 40 seconds to make people genuinely laugh. Ten full extra minutes here, filled to the brim with repetitions and long pauses, and... oh, whoa! What happened? When did you turn verbose and prosaic?

"Electrititity" ??

🌏🕵🏻‍♂️☯️📖🌌😆✌️For the forgiven. If you have been fooled you can definitely get forgiven. Why?

As a Jack Dee fan, can I just say this isn't his best material. Straying into Clarkson, Sunday Times article territory here.

I remember when you were funny,but I was younger and less aware

I remember Jack Dee when he was funny.