Ever watched your dad get a massage? Jack Whitehall has

Jack Whitehall has been embodying the Dad spirit long before he actually became a father last year. We know he loves a Dad joke and his travels with his own Dad are well-documented, but now he’s opened up to LADBible Australia about a time when he and his Dad got a little too close for comfort.

Of course, Jack’s Dad jokes went viral after future monarch Prince William roasted him for them. So who better for Uber to tap for their Father’s Day campaign, all about Dad jokes? Jack’s only been a Dad for a little while, but it’s safe to say he has the humour down.

Jack stars in the latest ad campaign for Uber Reserve, demonstrating why it pays to be prepared and schedule an Uber Reserve ride whenever you need to escape a sticky situation. Perfect for if your Dad lovingly humiliates you one too many times.

But, Jack also understands part of fatherhood is embarrassing your kids at any given chance. In fact, telling the story of a time he travelled Cambodia with his Dad, Michael, Jack might’ve been subject to an unprecedented level of Dad-induced embarrassment.

“We were in Cambodia and my father ordered a massage to his room,” Jack told LADBible Australia, “but insisted on having me present.”

Why would Jack’s dad want him in the room while he’s getting a massage? “Because he was worried that there might be some hanky panky at the end of it.

“He wanted me to monitor it to make sure that she didn't get the wrong idea and get ‘carried away’. That's why I had to sit in the room and observe my father get a massage.”

Suddenly, those embarrassing stories our Dad tells your mates don’t seem so bad, huh?

Experiences like this might make for good stories, but will Jack adopt some of his Dad’s parenting techniques as his own child grows older?

“Well, I definitely won't be doing that,” he said.

“But I think—I hope—I would be a little bit more hands on and tactful. That being said, there'll be elements of his parenting style that I might borrow from.”

What has changed since fatherhood for Jack is his approach to comedy. He’s made a name for himself telling Dad jokes, but now he’s fully embracing them.

“I’ve definitely noticed bad jokes creeping into my set,” Jack said.

“In the old days, if a joke got a groan, then I would cut it for myself the following night. But now I quite enjoy alliterating that reaction from the audience and want to push it even further.”

Jack’s campaign with Uber is all about just how far a Dad joke can take you. And, to celebrate Father’s Day this year, your best Dad joke might just get you $100 off Uber reserve rides. All you have to do is enter the comp here, punch in your best Dad joke, and hope the years of enduring your old man’s humour have paid off.

Not only that, but all submissions will receive a code for an Uber reserve ride on the house.

To help out, we asked Jack exactly how to nail the ultimate Dad joke, groans and all.

“I think the art of telling the perfect Dad joke is to really commit to it,” Jack said.

“You have to really sell it with sincerity and earnestness, and you want a joke that gets a sort of begrudging acceptance that forces you to laugh even though you really, really don't want to.

“I think the other key thing to a Dad joke is they tend to work best when they're repeated. I think my dad used to make a lot of really crass Dad jokes. Really embarrassing puns, and he would just repeat them. It was just through sheer resilience, force of will and repetition—he would just wear you down. Sometimes that sort of attritional delivery is the only way to hammer home a Dad joke.”

And for future fathers with a baby on the way, Jack imparts the words of wisdom, and the only words of wisdom, his father gave him.

“He said, ‘My only piece of advice is when it comes to the delivery, don't get down to the business end of things. And that was all he had to offer.”