Jack Dee

So, naturally, the first 10 minutes of Lawson's polite gossip with Dee was about the making of the series and Dee's own feelings as an actor and the writer of a semi-autobiographical sitcom [...] Whether Lawson's guests have had anything to plug or not - and in the main, they haven't - is only incidental, as proved by the case of Dee, through whom we got a fascinating, candid 50-minute insight into a complicated life and career.

Jack Dee: A touch of Spleen

Another interview with Jack Dee about the first series of Lead Balloon.

So what's the big idea?

Jack Dee explains how he took a vague idea for a sitcom and turned it into Lead Balloon

Stand-ups who fall flat on their faces

And, who knows, perhaps that's why the phrase "Jesus wept" came so readily to my lips while watching Jack & Jeremy's Real Lives (C4) on Friday night. They're a double act with two straight men, a partnership for whom the expression "but comedy is subjective you know" might have been invented, and the occasion of their coming together seemed less like a marriage than a wake.