164 - Jimmy Carr (Part One of Two)

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Stuart Goldsmith

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2016

⏱️ 70 minutes

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In this first part of a two hour interview with one of the UK's most respected comedians, Jimmy Carr reveals the inner mechanism of his bulletproof stage act. We focus on his extraordinary ease with hecklers, his mastery of put-downs, and we learn some of the techniques he uses to mint hundreds of new jokes every year. But is he as invincible emotionally as he appears to be onstage?

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1:17.0	Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith and it's a very special episode. I could have saved this one for number 200 or something like that.
1:21.0	But no, I recorded it only two days ago and I want to
1:24.9	bung it out as soon as possible this was an extraordinarily funny and fascinating interview all of the all of the things we like here on
1:35.4	the comedians comedian podcast please welcome to the show Jimmy Carr. So we last saw each other we think in Montreal. Just for laughs yeah we're the
1:50.3	greatest comedy festival in the world I think because You're huge there, I didn't realize.
1:54.0	Well I do it every year.
1:55.0	I mean and I love just floss because it's that, it is the best comedy festival because in Edinburgh you can have a bad one.
2:00.0	And you can't in Montreal because it's by invitation so everyone there is
2:04.7	already having a great time but it doesn't matter how good your Edinburgh is and my
2:07.9	best was probably 2002 sort of the Perry a nomination that show at the Pleasant's was it was a really good oh no the show at the Pleasance was a really good, oh no, the
2:14.0	show at the Guild of Bloomers was really, really good and had a great time but then I had friends
2:18.0	that were having a nightmare and it always takes the edge off.
2:20.0	Doesn't matter how good at a time you're having you're sort of walking around going
2:23.2	brilliant I've written a show it's really working and I'm finding an audience for this
2:27.4	and it's I think I might be able to do this as my job. Oh this is amazing and then you
2:31.0	bump into someone and they go yeah I might have to sell my car.
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