Jimmy Carr: "The World is Being Rebuilt from Scratch"
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Josh Szeps
4.5 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Giday, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. What a treat we have for you today. |
| 0:08.7 | One of the biggest stand-up comics in the world, Jimmy Carr, joins us once again, one of our favorite recurring guests on the show. |
| 0:15.9 | His brutal and hilarious crowdwork has become the viral video sensation of the 2020s. But long before that, |
| 0:23.4 | he was a staple of British television. You want to read this out. I will read this out just to give |
| 0:27.9 | you an impression if you're not in the UK of how ubiquitous Jimmy is. He hosts eight out of |
| 0:33.6 | ten cats, a long-running panel comedy show. 8 out of 10 Cats does countdown, obviously. |
| 0:39.6 | Channel 4 is Big Fat Quiz of the Year and Big Fat Quiz of Everything. |
| 0:43.1 | He also hosts Roast Battle on Comedy Central and The Fix on Netflix. |
| 0:49.0 | Speaking of Netflix, Jimmy was the first British comedian to sign a stand-up comedy special deal with the US streaming |
| 0:56.9 | outlet and his Netflix stand-up specials are funny business in 2016, the best of ultimate gold |
| 1:02.9 | greatest hits in 2019, his dark material in 2021 and natural born killer in 2024. |
| 1:10.3 | Jimmy is currently touring Australia on a massive multi-month long tour. |
| 1:14.6 | It's just lovely to have him around. |
| 1:16.6 | Quick thought before we continue and get into things, |
| 1:19.6 | if you are not yet a paid subscriber on Substack, |
| 1:22.3 | we're about to launch some additional benefits for paid Subsack subscribers. |
| 1:26.8 | And we're going to have a kind of |
| 1:28.1 | Gulf of Hormuz, petrol pump price extravaganza, a substack subscriber drive, in which we offer |
| 1:34.5 | even more benefits to subscribers. A big thank you to everyone who does pay for the show. It's the only |
| 1:39.0 | reason why the show is financially viable in the first place, and we're able to bring you guests |
| 1:42.6 | like Jimmy. It's a great honour and an enormous joy to sit down once again with the one, the only, |
| 1:48.4 | Jimmy Carr. |
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