Jack Dee - arguably the best stand up and briefly TV sitcom comedian in the U.K. I went to see him in a room above a pub in south west London back in the mid eighties. He was absolutely brilliant. Jack has honestly grafted his way through the tough gigs over the years to where he deservedly is today.
His initial walk on introduction gave late arrivals, & certain members of the audience time to heckle, but Jack quickly bull whipped them to shut the hell up. Once he told his observational stories, which came thick & fast, hecklers couldn't get a word in. Certain aspects of his gig time stamped the era i.e Marathon chocolate bars became Snickers, Jif cleaner became Cif. / I liked Jack in Josh Widdicombe's sitcom called " Josh " available on Y.T Jack plays Josh's landlord. Beattie Edmondson is the daughter of Ad Edmondson & Jennifer Saunders. Well worth watching.
When I had a prostate exam my doctor asked me "Who do you think dislikes this more; you, who needn't do it again for 5 years, or me, who will probably do it again next week?"
I have been refraining from posting comments off late but I feel compelled to acknowledge just how good Jack Dee is. He is a brilliant comedian and to be able to be one, you have to be a genuinely talented person. He is definitely up there with the very best.
There's a reason he was chosen to be compere for the very earliest seasons of the BBC's "Live at the Apollo". The audience is putty in his hands. He's cynic in all of us, but able to laugh at himself.
Jack Dee - Live At The Apollo (2002) 29.11.23 2027pm computer conscious wanking!!! can't say i do... might give it a try, though.... sounds like something the hep young cats do. i mean..... i mean.... jack's the kindda guy who would never notice he'd been deserted. those are the kindda people who get by and maybe even succeed in gettin' one over on their fellow compatriots without even trying... he's washed dishes in a poxy cafe he' ok by me...
In his autobiography he says, someone pointed out how funny he is. When he was working in restaurants. Because he would look really serious. He claims he didn’t realise.
What violent contempt? It's simply that he's long winded, pretty boring and not particularly funny. I endured 19 minutes of this, and gave up waiting for something amusing.
@@johncoops6897 jimmy carr used to be good, but now he relies on the shock factor too much, and its usually just a 1 liner like hes reading from a list
Ive' tried out a lot of stand comic's 'but jack is ( I'm respectful enough to say "in my opinion ") extremely funny and very talented ' I'm very prepared to say the best I've ever seen. I think he leaves the rest for dead.
Jack Dee - Live At The Apollo (2002) 29.11.23 2039pm he's a lot more chipper than the earlier days.... and you seem to have seen him in his very early forays into stand up - if it was jack dee you saw play.... or stand up? anyone eating pasta at the moment? kindda put me right off...
It's comedy,not to be taken seriously.This man has facets.He cannot be worried about the future.All he really has to do is keep breathing.The genius pours out of him with an ease that is otherworldly!
Just discovered this great comic watching an old top gear ep (s6e3) Glad I did. Genuinely brilliant! Makes me wonder.. How is Gervais more famous than him?
Because they're just Comedians/ Stand Ups, they don't also Write, Direct, and Produce Hit T.V. Shows!? Jim Norton is funnier than Ricky.............no one knows who the fuck he is! (a few fans do, and he's perverted as fuck)
This made me feel old. However, I have never laughed so much in my entire life!!(well maybe once in primary school, but that did not involve Jack Dee.)
one off haha more like a toss off, is he supposed to be funny, the moron audiance almost wet themselves every tim he swears, so funny hes a lucky man if hes earning good money to stand there talking rubbish,
BEST "man with kibab meat in his mouth" impression I've ever heard! Also, don't trust teenage girls with glasses. After the one babysitter who did the ""pouty librarian with her glasses in her mouth" incident, I hire all grandmas. Our klackers were always hunting bolos. We wrangled each other, unsuspecting girls playing tag, a teacher that one time, and some of the equipment. The next day, we didn't have klackers any more. Harry Potter took a proper beating in this one...
His style came about because his happy chirpy original false style wasnt working early on, he got dispondent and nearly gave up but honoured his last few gigs and just went out and did them in his normal grumpy old self and he got loads more laughs so he stuck with it.
He’s my very Favourite comedian, I was just a 14 year old pup when he started getting on the telly, back then he I hadn’t heard anyone as funny, I’m from Belfast, we have our own dark humour and Jack just nails everything I find funny about life, I swear if he told me my dog was dead I’d laugh 😂
Jack Dee - Live At The Apollo (2002). 29.11.23. - where did you have your cardiac arrest? - pizza express. frightfully good... o, yes.... - Crabtree avenue....
OMG - clackers!! LMAO!! They would always smack you in the elbow and disable you for awhile! Especially after a few good clacks! You'd see it happen to friends and feel their pain. OMG *crying laughing*
This was from 2002, it's now 2022 and it's still funny. As I'm from the States, I've only recently heard of him from seeing him on the panel shows. This is the first of his stand-up I've seen. I'll have to see more. Not as funny as Sean Lock, but funnier than Jon Richardson. ;-) Not as funny as Dara O Briain, but funnier than Josh Widdicombe. I will say, watching British panel shows has introduced me to some great comics: Sarah Millican, Dara O Briain, and others.
Forty years (ish) of treading the boards here in the uk and still a personal favourite of mine. Still a fan. Something gratifying about folks thousands of miles away “discovering” him. I didn’t discover Bill Hicks until more than a decade after he’d passed away which was bitter sweet tbh. There’s so much stand up of Jack out there. You’ve probably found it all by now.
It's subjective I suppose, I think Jack is brilliant, the late Sean Lock was fantastic ( RIP Sean, greatly missed ) , I like Jon Richardson as a person but don't find him that funny ( personally ) , although he's good on the panel shows. Dara is very good, look up the VR video gaming sketch, so funny!! Josh Widdecombe ? don't find him funny at all, no offence to anyone that does, saying that, loved his sitcom JOSH , Jack Dee played his landlord in that, Beattie Edmondson is in it as one of Josh's flat mates with the pretty funny welsh comic, Elis James. Cheers
Jack Dee - Live At The Apollo (2002). 29.11.23. St Andrew's day tomorrow, isn't it??? I wouldn't min revisiting the years when I was having fun.....imperialism might crop up within that....
Wow! He even got a joke out of curling? Genius! Comedy gold. Which show is the one where he talks of how he hates friends or family coming to visit him?
Hilarious as ever but interestingly everything he mentions has gone full circle! Internet shopping is major, computers do actually run everything now and passports are blue again!
