Author Profile
Jack Dee
1962 • British • Comedian
37
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Collected Meditations
Showing 37 quotesThe book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.— Jack Dee
I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.— Jack Dee
I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.— Jack Dee
I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.— Jack Dee
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.— Jack Dee
It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.— Jack Dee
Possibly I am difficult to live with, but I don't bring my work home much. I'm either busy or not busy. And I don't work from home. I have an office here which has a white wall. No view. I did try working in a room with a view but it was too interesting. Too distracting.— Jack Dee
I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.— Jack Dee
Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'— Jack Dee
One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.— Jack Dee
I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.— Jack Dee
I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.— Jack Dee
I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.— Jack Dee