Jack Dee (born September 24, 1962) is a British stand-up comedian known for his sardonic, deadpan style. Dee first became well known to audiences in the early 1990s. During that decade he appeared in a series of high-profile adverts for the brewery John Smith's in which he introduced the recently invented widget. Dee has presented a variety of television shows on the BBC, the first of note being The Jack Dee Show in 1997.