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• I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.

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• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn’t.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

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• I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.

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• I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

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• 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.

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• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it’s probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often – and this is quite common with comics – a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

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• I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

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• But I like going to church. If you’ve been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it’s important that part of the kids’ education is knowing about the Bible.

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• And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I’m laughing or smiling.

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• The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

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• One of my friends went on a murder weekend… now he is doing life for it.

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• I hate people who think it’s clever to take drugs… like custom officers.

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Birth:	1961
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Comedian

About

James Andrew Innes "Jack" Dee was born in Bromley, Kent, England. He is an English stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter and TV Program Creator known for his sarcasm and deadpan humour. He is well known in the United Kingdom for writing and starring in the sitcom Lead Balloon and hosting the panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. He has been a team captain on Shooting Stars and hosted Jack Dee: Live at the Apollo, which was nominated for a BAFTA in 2006.

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