The BEST episodes written by Jack Dee
#1 - Jack Dee & Julian Clary
Live at the Apollo - Season 2 - Episode 6
Joining Jack on stage is Julian Clary, who whips the audience into a frenzy with a set where no one is safe from his wit. Jack delivers a set lambasting cold calling for gas, phone and electricity, and he also lays into chemists, mobile phones and even vacuum cleaners.
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#2 - Jack Dee & Omid Djalili
Live at the Apollo - Season 1 - Episode 5
Jack Dee performs live at the Apollo in Hammersmith, joined by Omid Djalili and a celebrity-packed audience.
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#3 - Jack Dee & Keith Barret
Live at the Apollo - Season 2 - Episode 4
Jack's guest is Wales's most famous divorcee, Keith Barret. Keith's inept attempt to give a lecture about relationships has the audience in stitches, as he stumbles through a disastrous slide show. Jack's own set takes in rough council estates, service stations, the SAS and decking out his house with freebies from hotels.
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#4 - Jack Dee & Dara O'Briain
Live at the Apollo - Season 2 - Episode 2
Jack is joined by Irish comic Dara O'Briain, whose set includes advice on how to put know-all doctors in their place, reveals and includes an improvisation of a koala being a phone sex operator. Jack sets his sights on Ellen MacArthur, the Olympics and on audience members including Tracey Emin and Jayne Middlemiss.
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#5 - Jack Dee & Ardal O'Hanlon
Live at the Apollo - Season 1 - Episode 2
Jack Dee performs live at the Apollo in Hammersmith, joined by Ardal O'Hanlon and a celebrity-packed audience.
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#6 - Jack Dee
Live at the Apollo - Season 2 - Episode 3
Jack Dee's solo show of the series.
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#7 - Jack Dee
Live at the Apollo - Season 1 - Episode 6
Jack Dee performs a full set live at the Apollo in Hammersmith, to an audience packed with celebrities.
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#8 - Jack Dee & Lee Mack
Live at the Apollo - Season 2 - Episode 1
Joining Jack on stage tonight is one of the UK's hottest stand-ups, star of The Sketch Show, Lee Mack. Guest stars include the cast of Footballers Wives, Michael Buerk, Quentin Wilson and Spice Girl Melanie C, and members of the public get the chance to text Jack with jokes, comments and abuse.
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#9 - End
Lead Balloon - Season 4 - Episode 6
In the concluding episode, Rick has at last found the fame and success he so desperately craved. Thanks to his ordeal as a hostage, the 'Prison Siege Comic', as he is now known in the tabloids, is on an all-time high. He is inundated with offers - from appearing as a hostage expert on the national news, to featuring in a celebrity survival series. When he is asked to host The Brave Britain Awards in front of a live television audience of millions, Rick thinks all his dreams have finally come true. But, as he prepares to go on stage, it seems that the dream is about to turn into a nightmare.
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#10 - Jack Dee & Ross Noble
Live at the Apollo - Season 1 - Episode 4
Jack Dee performs live at the Apollo in Hammersmith, joined by Ross Noble and a celebrity-packed audience.
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#11 - Blade
Lead Balloon - Season 4 - Episode 5
Having accepted funding from the local council, Rick reluctantly agrees to teach a Stand-up Comedy Workshop in Belford Prison. But this turns out to be one of Rick's worst gigs: he is taken hostage, trapped in the prison library by a knife-wielding prisoner, Donald. Donald is a worrying mixture of charming and psychotic - and worse still for Rick, has a pathological hatred of liars. Can Rick talk his way out of trouble? Will the governors give in to Donald's demands? Or will this be the end of Rick's less-than-stellar career?
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#12 - Rubbish
Lead Balloon - Season 1 - Episode 1
Rick fronts a lame government TV recycling campaign which backfires spectacularly. He falls out with café-owner Michael over a homemade fruitcake, and has a full-on row with unhinged baby-present shopkeeper Maureen.
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#13 - Wayne
Lead Balloon - Season 1 - Episode 2
A teaspoon crisis in the Spleen household leads Rick to petty theft. Meanwhile, Rick's sleep is disturbed by the paperboy, Wayne, who is very punctual, very noisy and has a brain the size of a walnut.
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#14 - Fatty
Lead Balloon - Season 1 - Episode 6
Rick is publicly humiliated on TV by daytime chat-show host Adam Green. He also has an unfortunate encounter with an acquaintance at the gym, and Ben manages to destroy Rick's brand new DVD player by taking the back off.
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#15 - Allergic
Lead Balloon - Season 1 - Episode 4
Rick discovers he may have inadvertently killed one of Britain's best-loved entertainers, but he's preoccupied by a missing shoe-organiser. Meanwhile Rick prepares for upcoming appearance on topical news panel show Bullet in the News.
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#16 - Off
Lead Balloon - Season 4 - Episode 4
Rick is at his lowest ebb. With no other work on offer, he decides to set up his own stand-up comedy workshop. But the first week's class attracts just five students. Worse still, the second session includes a new wannabe comic - deranged cafe owner Michael. A disastrous session on how to deal with heckling backfires spectacularly, but hope is on the horizon - in the form of an earnest council executive, Libby. Meanwhile Magda is trying to claim compensation after tripping on a paving stone, but it turns out that Rick is the one who's in danger of serious injury.
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#17 - £5000
Lead Balloon - Season 1 - Episode 3
Rick gets in a punch-up at an awards ceremony and ends up with a black eye. Marty is preparing to pitch a programme to the BBC and Michael is delighted that Rick has accidentally sponsored him a small fortune for his Skipathon.
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#18 - Pistachio
Lead Balloon - Season 1 - Episode 5
Rick buys himself a scooter but worries that it makes him look gay. Hosting the Air Conditioning and Climate Control Awards goes disastrously, and a trip to the local dry cleaner ends in a heated argument.
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#19 - Pig
Lead Balloon - Season 4 - Episode 1
Rick's career is at an all-time low: even his idea of writing a novel gets stuck on page one. So when a Sunday newspaper wants to do an 'At Home With' feature about his partner Mel, Rick naturally tries to muscle in on the action. But when he decides that having a pet pig would look good in the photos, Rick proves that if nothing else, he's the prize-winning author of his own downfall.
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#20 - Dead
Lead Balloon - Season 4 - Episode 2
Rick lands a job as a presenter on the Bargain Channel - it's Britain's premier shopping channel, as he points out to anyone who will listen. For once, his new job impresses surly East-European help Magda, who is a big fan of the show. His writing partner Marty and local cafe owner Michael are not so easily convinced, but Rick is determined that he's finally found something he's good at. Meanwhile, Rick's daughter Sam and her boyfriend Ben are allegedly looking for work - without ever getting up from the sofa.
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#21 - Jack Dee & Jo Brand
Live at the Apollo - Season 1 - Episode 3
Jack Dee performs live at the Apollo in Hammersmith, joined by Jo Brand and a celebrity-packed audience.
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#22 - Jack Dee, Jason Manford & Russell Howard
Live at the Apollo - Season 3 - Episode 1
Host Jack Dee and guests Jason Manford and Russell Howard regale their audience with their thoughts on everything from melting polar ice caps, wimpy professional footballers and celebrity-voiced sat nav systems to canine funerals, online dating and how best to outwit muggers.
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#23 - Shoddy
Lead Balloon - Season 4 - Episode 3
Rick's new job as a presenter on The Bargain Channel is going well but after his writing partner Marty takes a shine to his co-presenter Donna, Rick is not happy. Clive is on the warpath wanting a refund for an ornamental windmill that his mother bought from The Bargain Channel. Rick's behaviour at a funeral sees him getting into trouble and threatens to kill off his career.
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#24 - Jack Dee, Marcus Brigstocke & Rich Hall
Live at the Apollo - Season 2 - Episode 5
Marcus Brigstocke performs a stand-up set that includes his observations on everything from Pacman to Britain's 'special relationship' with America, while laconic American Rich Hall explains how Bill Gates defies gravity and exposes the secret formula behind the plots to Tom Cruise films. In Jack's own set, he teases audience guests including Neil and Christine Hamilton.
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#25 - Jack Dee & Joan Rivers
Live at the Apollo - Season 1 - Episode 1
Jack Dee performs live at the Apollo in Hammersmith, joined by Joan Rivers and an audience packed with celebrities.