Returning to the stage after six years, comedian Jack Dee is back and bringing his new show down under.
The UK comedian, actor and writer is bringing his 'An Evening With Jack Dee' tour to Australia for four shows only and it is a show about agonising over the slightest of annoyances and misdemeanours.
This time he has a bone to pick and Jack says there's a large misconception he needs to address with Aussies. “I think one of the things I will address when I come to Australia is the idea that the British are whinging Poms. I’m a glass-half-full kind of guy, but the glass is cracked and it’s slowly emptying out. I’ve been to Australia a lot of times and toured around, so I like the place. I like the space you have there, the kind of outdoor feel, it’s pretty good and I’m looking forward to that.”
Avoiding the normal and expected, anything can and has happened at his shows. “I’ve had occasions where the power has failed and I've had to do the show in the dark without sound or lighting. I’ve had fire alarms go off, I’ve had someone streak across the stage at one point. I’ve had bomb scares, and all kinds of stuff go on.”
Not willing to disappoint his audience, the show must go on, and on it goes. “In a sense those moments have to become part of the show and that’s what’s expected of you as a comedian from the audience. In a way that’s what the audience are there to see — a live show rather than a DVD.”
The winner of the first season of Celebrity Big Brother, co-writer of the semi-biographical sitcom 'Lead Balloon', and presenter of BAFTA-nominated show 'Jack Dee Live at the Apollo' in 2005, Jack is not a man led astray by superstitions. “If I detect a superstition beginning to creep in, I deliberately squash it straight away. If I feel ‘I had a good show, it must have been because I had red socks on,’ then I’ll deliberately not wear red socks the next show to prove to myself it’s not that. That way of thinking is quite dangerous; you can get a bit distracted by it all, so it’s good to nip any kind of suspicion in the bud.”
Watch 'An Evening with Jack Dee' at the Tivoli on Tuesday April 23.
