Probably a train ticket anywhere in the UK.
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Jack Dee
b. 1961
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Born in Bromley in Kent, Dee, 63, was a waiter when he first appeared at the Comedy Store in London in 1986. In 1991, he won the British comedy award for best stage newcomer and was given his own show on Channel 4. His 2004 Live at the Apollo series was Bafta nominated, and he co-wrote and starred in the sitcoms Lead Balloon and Bad Move. He has chaired Radio 4’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue since 2009, and co-hosts the podcast Oh My Dog! This week he begins a UK tour of his new standup show, Small World. He is married with four children and lives in London.
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Audiobooks have allowed me to catch up on the books I always claimed to have read anyway. On long journeys I’ll often be listening to Kafka, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn. It’s a fantastic way to pass time and often means I’ll turn up at the gig really depressed. So it’s a win-win.
I can go for weeks without opening the mail. I can look at a letter that has just dropped through the letterbox, wonder what it is and then just shred it.
After the third time someone’s late, we can’t be friends any more.
Caring, patient, considerate, innumerate.
When I was a kid I had a Saturday job in the stockroom of a supermarket. I remember everything in there being a little bit grubby and slightly sticky. We’d do things like play rugby with a swiss roll. I think of it every time I go shopping.
An unhackable, simple-to-remember password that works for everything.
When something is half price in a supermarket, always find out why.
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