Jack Rooke: Good Grief

A decade retrospective of capitalising on my dead dad to varied levels of failure and success

BAFTA winner and recovering spoken-word artist Jack Rooke (Creator of Hulu/C4’s Big Boys) returns to the comedy-theatre show that started it all. Following a completely sold out run at London’s Soho Theatre in December 2025 and January 2026, Good Grief will tour the UK later in 2026, ten years on from its premiere.

Featuring the 2015 show co-written with his nan, along with new material written in response to the show, this retrospective will further explore grief, ambition, being a class traitor, milking having a dead dad for personal/professional gain, the innocence of writing just for oneself before the interference of “telly wankers”, and the palpable regret of Jac'k’s own decline into becoming said “telly wanker”.