Jack Rooke
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Alice Williams
4.7 • 12.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
We are so happy to be joined by award winning comedy writer Jack Rooke on the podcast this week! Fresh from his BAFTA win for his beautiful comedy series ‘Big Boys’ (and still suffering from a 2 day hangover), Jack joined us for brunch to celebrate the occasion. Jack is in the midst of preparing for the return of his comedy show ‘Good Grief’, and we talked about how comedy helped him with the loss of his dad when he was a teen. We also covered meeting Celie Imrie, rating gifted lasagnes, his love of working in Paris, his dream of Christmas dinner & thanksgiving merged into one meal, and we even get a confession involving Jessie’s mobile number! What a total delight to chat with the fabulous Jack, good luck with the tour! ‘Good Grief’ is touring the UK from August to October, tickets on sale now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Tabern Manors. I'm Jessie Ware and I'm here with Lenny and it's a windy spring day. Are we still in spring? |
| 0:11.1 | It should be summer by May but absolutely is not summer. I nearly have the heating on. I had it full glass all over. |
| 0:18.4 | It's blowing a hoolly out there. know. And that's a cold win. |
| 0:21.8 | We're doing a breakfast episode today. |
| 0:24.3 | So someone's coming over for breakfast. |
| 0:26.1 | It's Jack Rook, who I absolutely love. |
| 0:29.1 | He created one of the best TV shows on Channel 4, brilliant British. |
| 0:35.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:36.1 | Would you call it comedy, but it's also |
| 0:38.1 | completely touching and beautiful called Big Boys. Had three seasons, I adored them all, but started |
| 0:44.7 | in the Edinburgh Fringe with winning, I think, lots of accolades for his stand-up called Good |
| 0:51.2 | Grief, which has its 10-year anniversary this year. |
| 0:55.9 | And that's why he's going back to Edinburgh to do it. |
| 0:57.8 | How old is he? |
| 0:59.4 | He's one of them ones that started young. |
| 1:02.4 | He's a bit Lena Dunhamy, do you know what I mean? |
| 1:04.4 | Very clever and successful at a young age. |
| 1:07.5 | Has he reached 30 yet? |
| 1:09.3 | Yeah, I think maybe he is 30 or something. He's just very good. And he's coming over to talk about good grief, coming back. And I hope big boys. No, big boys is wrapped up, mum, if you haven't. I know, but he'll still talk, he won't talk about that. He says he's done with pretending he's at uni now. So he's not a big boy anymore. |
| 1:28.1 | He's a big boy now. |
| 1:29.2 | He's a big boy, yeah. |
| 1:30.5 | So we have Jack Rook coming on to talk about, yeah, stand up, good grief, big boys, all of it. |
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