The World Against Me

The second series of Jack Dee’s BBC2 comedy, Lead Balloon, is now well underway and thankfully, after a pretty shaky start, it’s right back on track. There’s something refreshing about portraying what is essentially Jack Dee’s on-stage persona in a domestic situation where he can be even more grumpy and put-upon than usual and, most effectively of all, play off the people around him. In the latest installment, “Points”, anti-hero Rick has been penalised with points on his

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Tags: bbc2, Jack-Dee, Lead-Balloon, Points, Rick-Spleen, Tony Hancock

You Don’t Know Jack

I don�t think I can remember seeing Jack Dee in an acting role before, although I seem to recall he has actually played a few roles in various productions over the last few years (Edit: a quick search on IMDB shows he has indeed done plenty of acting previously but I definately didn�t catch any of it). His deadpan delivery in his stand-up routines always entertain though and so, I tuned into Lead Balloon on BBC4 the other night after being quite intrigued by the trailers, and what

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Tags: BBC4, Comedy, Curb-Your-Enthusiasm, Jack-Dee, Lead-Balloon, Raquel-Cassidy, Rick-Spleen, Sitcom