Jack Dee wrote and starred in the sitcom Lead Balloon and hosts the panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
27 Facts About Jack Dee
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Jack Dee was the youngest of three children born to Rosemary and Geoffrey Dee, after Joanna Innes Dee and David Simon Innes Dee.
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Jack Dee was born in the Municipal Borough of Bromley, Kent and grew up in Petts Wood before moving with his family to Winchester when he was young.
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Jack Dee took his A-levels at Peter Symonds' College, and left with a D and an F grade.
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Jack Dee was encouraged to write additional material and to tour the circuit.
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Jack Dee played the part of Doug Digby in the Grimleys pilot before the role was recast for the series, and made guest appearances on such programmes as Silent Witness, Dalziel and Pascoe and Jonathan Creek.
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Jack Dee has subsequently said that he dislikes the treatment of the housemates by the show and its producers, and has refused all permission for any of the clips to be shown again.
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Jack Dee's performance was praised, though the film itself received a lukewarm response.
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Jack Dee was the celebrity advocate in Britain's Best Sitcom for Fawlty Towers and presented an hour-long documentary about the series.
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Jack Dee starred as Harry in the 2005 film Short Order.
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In February 2009, it was announced that Jack Dee would be one of a trio of hosts to replace the late Humphrey Lyttelton for the summer series of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
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Jack Dee subsequently became the permanent host from the 52nd series onwards.
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Jack Dee is a frequent guest on QI and Have I Got News for You, which he has guest-presented ten times, and he hosts segments of the BBC's biennial Comic Relief telethon.
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Jack Dee starred in advertisements for John Smith's Bitter in the 1990s, becoming known as "the midget with the widget".
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Jack Dee made his stage debut in 1998, playing Yvan in Yasmina Reza's Olivier award-winning 'Art'.
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Jack Dee later returned as Serge for a 13-week run at the request of the director.
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In 2008, Dee took part in the 15th anniversary special of Shooting Stars where he replaced Will Self as captain of Team A The show aired on 30 December 2008 on BBC2.
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Jack Dee returned as team captain in series 6 of Shooting Stars on 26 August 2009, and again for the 7th series.
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Over Christmas 2009, Jack Dee played the role of John Tweedledum in The News at Bedtime.
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In 2010, Jack Dee took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, filmed live at the O2 Arena in London on 30 March.
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In 2013, Jack Dee joined Dara O Briain, Chelsee Healey, Greg James, Melanie C and Philips Idowu in Through Hell and High Water, a Comic Relief challenge which involved British celebrities canoeing the most difficult rapids of the Zambezi River.
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In 2017, Jack Dee co-wrote and starred in Bad Move, a sitcom about a middle-aged man and his wife who move from the city to a country cottage in search of the rural dream, which becomes more of a nightmare.
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Jack Dee met Susan Jane Hetherington in 1986, when he was working as a waiter in Fulham and she was a receptionist at a nearby hotel.
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Jack Dee suffers from depression, and he has claimed that his work is the best therapy for his condition, saying "if you have the impulse to be creative, you ignore it at your peril".
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Jack Dee attended church and attempted to become a priest.
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Jack Dee signed with Doubleday in 2008 and the book, Thanks for Nothing: The Jack Dee Memoirs, was released in October 2009, along with an audiobook of the same title which he narrates.
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Jack Dee is a director of Open Mike Productions, co-founded with Addison Cresswell, which produces shows for television and radio including Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow and Alan Carr: Chatty Man.