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Jack Whitehall

(1988) Comedian United Kingdom

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Jack Whitehall is a comedian from the United Kingdom, best known for Him & Me.

Quick Facts About Jack Whitehall

Born: July 7, 1988
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Comedian
Notable works: Him & Me
Known for: Fresh Meat, Bad Education, Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father

About Jack Whitehall

Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall is an English comedian, actor, writer and television personality. He is known for his roles as JP in the Channel 4 comedy-drama series Fresh Meat (2011–2016) and as Alfie Wickers in the BBC Three sitcom Bad Education. He also co-wrote the latter and its film adaptation, The Bad Education Movie (2015).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jack Whitehall

I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.

Bit

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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude…

About

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Oh, you wanna do a little bit of roleplay? Could you just play dead?

Bits

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Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.

Doing

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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

Amazing

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I was the first person in the world to audition for 'The Hobbit'. The casting director told me that when I went…

Audition

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This sausage roll only contains 2% of your daily intake of calories... if you lick it.

Calories

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I only got into comedy to get laid

Comedy

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I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

Cinema

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I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that…

Abbey

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I bought one of those anti-bullying wristbands when they first came out. I say 'bought', I actually stole it off a short,…

Anti bullying

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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right…

Along

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I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.

Am

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When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.

Camp

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Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same…

Comics

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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

Conscious

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I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.

Both

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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol…

Back

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“Ha my father just tried to put some music on that wasn't Buble. I just shut his ass the f**k down. We're…

Christmas

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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

Birth

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If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.

Funny

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I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.

Hiding

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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.

Always

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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright…

Alright

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Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but…

Being

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