His television career began in 1991 with C4’s The Jack Dee Show, and he went on to write and star in many acclaimed TV comedies, including Jack Dee’s Saturday Night and Jack Dee’s Happy Hour.

In 2009, Jack succeeded Humphrey Lyttelton as the chairman of the widely adored BBC Radio 4’s “antidote to panel games,” I’m Sorry, I Haven’t a Clue. The author of a compelling bestselling autobiography, Thanks for Nothing, Jack has also co-written and starred in four series of the BBC Two sitcom, Lead Balloon.

He returned to the road after a six-year absence from stand-up with an eighteen-month tour in 2012 and 2013.

Jack developed and appeared in the collaborative live show called Jack Dee’s HelpDesk which toured live around the country and was broadcast on BBC Two in the run up to the 2015 general election, the 2016 EU referendum and the 2017 presidential inauguration. Also, in the run up to the EU referendum Jack starred in Channel 4’s topical comedy series Power Monkeys.

In 2015 he became the host of the BBC Two show The Apprentice: You’re Fired and The Apprentice: You’re Hired in which the newly fired candidate from The Apprentice was grilled and shown their best and funniest moments from the series.

Jack has starred as Geoff in three series of the BBC sitcom JOSH. He has also co-written and starred in the hit ITV series Bad Move.