JIMMY CARR: Comedy Legend
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Josh Szeps
4.5 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Jimmy Carr’s comedy career has spanned over two decades and seen him sell out arenas all over the world. Jimmy returns to Netflix with his latest stand-up special Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer. The show was seen by 1.2 million people in 45 countries and is the first special that Jimmy has directed. Now you get to see it at home.
I sat down with Jimmy during my visit to London to discuss his new special as well as all things comedy, cancel culture, social media, the state of the world and much much more.
Jimmy Carr returns to Netflix with his latest stand-up special Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer out now.
Jimmy’s brand-new international tour Jimmy Carr: Laughs Funny is on sale now. For tickets and info visit jimmycarr.com
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| 0:00.0 | Gillay, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. And if you think that I sometimes get into trouble for expressing unconventional, heterodox ideas on this show, then you haven't heard Jimmy Carr, who gets into a lot of trouble for telling jokes about similar issues. He's one of the most important, |
| 0:21.7 | influential, most watched and funniest comics in the world. He's one of the top-selling stand-up |
| 0:27.7 | acts. He plays to arenas all over the place. He regularly appears on British television shows |
| 0:33.0 | like 8 out of 10 cats and QI, big fat quiz of the year. |
| 0:38.2 | His recent tour terribly funny was seen by more than 1.2 million people in 45 countries. |
| 0:44.6 | It was the biggest international stand-up tour in the history of the world. |
| 0:47.9 | He has a new Netflix special called Jimmy Carr, Natural Born Killer. |
| 0:52.1 | I was recently in London, and Jimmy, I'm pleased to say, is a fan of this show, a fan |
| 0:57.4 | of yours truly. |
| 0:58.8 | He did us the honour of renting out a little room in an exclusive Mayfair club, and we sat down |
| 1:05.7 | together. |
| 1:06.4 | It was such a delight to pick his brain about cancel culture, about what you can and can't say, |
| 1:11.4 | about the state of the world, about social media. Please enjoy as much as I did, the one, the only, |
| 1:15.9 | the legend, Jimmy Carr. |
| 1:21.1 | So you're, I'm here with Josh and sunburned. And dressed as top, if you are dressed as... It's a very top gun jacket. |
| 1:29.2 | It's very... |
| 1:29.6 | And look, we all saw the movie and went, |
| 1:32.1 | do you know what? |
| 1:32.8 | I could probably pull that off. |
| 1:34.4 | I probably look all right in that. |
| 1:35.7 | But only I actually took the extra step |
| 1:37.8 | and went out and said, |
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