Jack Dee Live at the Apollo

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• The final performance in Jack Dee's sell-out 2001-2002 UK tour, during which he performed 77 shows in front of 175,000 people.
• Joining Jack is Iranian comic Omid Djalili, who has had roles in blockbuster movies `Gladiator' and `The Mummy'. He performs a blistering set, casting his comic eye over everything from belly dancing to Shakespeare.
• Jack Dee Jack shows the young pretenders how it's done. No guests, no gimmicks, just Jack at his very best. In a tour-de-force show, Jack delivers some of his finest stand-up material in decades. Nothing is safe from his scathing wit as he lays into nursery schools, homework for kids, dentists, `The Antiques Roadshow' and safari ballooning.
• Jack Dee presents a comedy series from the Apollo theatre in London, with performances from some of his favourite comedy stars. He introduces Irish comic and star of `Father Ted' and `My Hero', Ardal O'Hanlon.
• Jack Dee is joined by Jo Brand, who airs her views on everything from `Trinny and Susannah' to `Big Brother'. Meanwhile, Jack lays into audience guests including James Hewitt and Jodie Marsh, and recalls a traumatic experience in Disneyland.
• Jack Dee is joined by cult-comedy hero Ross Noble. In this show he improvises an astonishing set including a section extolling the virtues of wearing meat on your face. Meanwhile Jack recounts a disastrous trip to the Titanic exhibition and recalls family holidays from hell, in front of an audience of 3,500 fans and celebrities.
• Jack recalls a traumatic experience at Disneyland, and audience guests James Hewitt and Jodie Marsh also provide the butt of his jokes. The guest comedian is the ever-wry Jo Brand, who airs her views on everything from Trinny and Susannah to Big Brother.
• Lee Mack The nation's favourite deadpan stand-up returns to BBC1 with the cream of the current comedy crop. Jack kicks off the first of the series with a blistering and hilarious attack on the post service, Directory Enquiries, Mountain Rescue and the AA. Joining Jack on stage is one of the UK's hottest stand-ups, star of `The Sketch Show', Lee Mack.
• Jack Dee vents his spleen on subjects as diverse as nursery schools, dentists, The Antiques Roadshow, homework for kids and safari ballooning.
• Dara O Briain Jack is joined by Ireland's biggest new comedy star Dara O Briain. Dara delivers a phenomenally funny set, which includes advice on how to put know-all doctors in their place, reveals the melting temperature of an Irishman and includes a hilarious improvisation of a koala bear being a phone sex operator.
• Jack's guest is Wales' 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.
• Marcus Brigstoke and Rich Hall Jack has two very special guests on this show. First up is Marcus Brigstocke, who performs a truly hilarious stand-up set that includes his observations on everything from Pacman to Britain's special relationship with America. The second guest star is laconic American Rich Hall, whose wise cracking humour explains how Bill Gates defies gravity and exposes the secret formula behind the plots to Tom Cruise films.
• 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.
• Joining Jack is Lee Mack, who reveals the secret lyrics of Freddie Mercury and Stevie Wonder.
• Jack's hilarious set takes in trouble with builders, and his fear of burglars.
• Marcus Brigstocke performs a set that includes his observations on everything from Pacman to Britain's `special relationship' with America.