Lead Balloon

PG, Entertainment, Comedy

Written by and starring Jack Dee, one of the UK's most successful stand-up comedians, this is a comedy series with a difference. Enter the world of Rick Spleen... Rick Spleen is a disillusioned stand-up comedian and writer whose career has not gone the way he had planned. Hosting corporate events, appearing on second-rate daytime chat shows and fronting cheap DVDs is not what he dreamed of as a young man. Worse still, he's stuck with a lousy stage name that he chose 20 years ago. Additional nuisances in Rick's life are provided by Magda, his Eastern European daily help who combines a surly and depressive nature with a unique ability to wind Rick up; pasty faced teenager Ben, Sam's boyfriend; and the least motivated human being on the planet, and local wholefood café owner, Michael, who appears to be completely unhinged. Jack Dee