The comedian and writer Jack Rooke was born in Watford in 1993. He’s best known for writing the Channel 4 sitcom Big Boys, a loosely autobiographical tale of a working-class “mummy’s boy” going to university, making friends, dealing with grief and coming out as gay. The series, which first aired in 2022 and received four Bafta nominations, was based on his Edinburgh fringe shows Good Grief and Happy Hour, as well as Rooke’s 2020 memoir Cheer the F**k Up. The second season, described by the Guardian in a five-star review as “gorgeous and poignant [with] plenty of knob jokes”, is on Channel 4 now.
