Jack Dee on struggling at school, his love for dogs and a hapless first meeting with his now wife
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
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🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re joined by the nation’s favourite grumpy comedian - the incredibly funny Jack Dee!
Jack joins Kate to chart his journey through his unconventional path to comedy. Despite struggling through most of school, acting was the one thing that felt like home - so that’s where he set his sights. He tells us how while working in a bar, he discovered a newfound zest for learning and academia, which set the stage for an unexpected turn from acting to the world of comedy and a storied career ever since. He also remembers how he ended up doing his first gig: on a whim; one night, in the mid-80s, at 2am, standing in line at the Comedy Store, ready to show off his comedic chops... Listen in to find out more!
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| 0:00.0 | Today at Center Parks, I didn't multitask. I saw the gleeful look on my teenager's face as she conquered the zip wire. |
| 0:08.0 | Today I didn't juggle meetings and pack lunches. I helped my little boy paint a cute squirrel pot. Today I didn't stress |
| 0:15.9 | about a work deadline. I swam underwater aqua jetting with my 10 year old. Life moves too fast. Precious moments last longer at |
| 0:27.1 | Center Parks. Cherish every moment. Coming up on this episode of White Line Question Time. |
| 0:39.0 | I remember I was on my motorbike and I had this helmet on, this full-faced |
| 0:43.0 | and I literally just screamed all the way home thinking of |
| 0:46.0 | this is it, this is what I've been looking for all my life |
| 0:48.0 | because it felt like that's what's wrong with me. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm a comedian. |
| 0:59.0 | In fact, Jane asked me out. She rang me. Did she? |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, she did. |
| 1:01.0 | So she says, oh yeah, it's Jane. I was wondering if you'd like to have lunch one day. I've never been forgiven for this, but I said, look, I'm, I just so tied up at a moment. I'd literally just start my comedy career. Anyway, before I could finish, she said, I'll go, f yourself and slam the phone down. |
| 1:17.0 | It's about locating that thing in you that you find funny and then sharing it with the audience. |
| 1:26.0 | And I find miserable people, there is something funny about them. Hello and welcome to White Mind Question Time. The podcast that asks its guests three thought-provoking questions |
| 1:44.8 | over three glasses of wine. |
| 1:46.7 | And my guest today is possibly the funniest miserable man in British comedy, whose |
| 1:51.6 | dry sardonic wit has been making us laugh for almost 40 |
| 1:55.7 | years now be it as a stand-up an actor or a radio television and now podcast host. |
| 2:01.2 | Raised in Winchester he was the youngest of three born to a |
| 2:04.7 | creative family of actors and musicians, so it was no surprise when at the age of |
| 2:08.9 | 16 he set his sights on becoming an actor after shining in a school production of the taming of the |
| 2:14.6 | Shro but his mother talked him out of it. The daughter of two actors she feared |
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