SZEPS WORLD TOUR - JIMMY CARR, COMEDY LEGEND
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Josh Szeps
4.5 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Jimmy Carr is one of the most successful stand-up comics on earth.
His hilarious, brutal crowd work is a viral sensation. His Netflix specials are smash hits. He hosts huge UK television panel shows and is currently touring the US, UK & Europe (and Australia and New Zealand early next year) with his latest live show, JIMMY CARR: LAUGHS FUNNY.
Jimmy and Josh caught up in-the-flesh in London on the Szeps Live Around-the-World Podcast Marathon to discuss crowd work, Elon Musk, immigration, COVID, and Kanye.
All info and tickets for Jimmy’s tour are available at www.jimmycarr.com
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| 0:00.0 | Gahy humans. |
| 0:04.1 | Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. |
| 0:07.0 | And as the Zeps Live Around the World podcast Marathon continues, we find ourselves in London, sitting down with one of the world's biggest stand-up comics for a second time on this show, the one and only Jimmy Carr. |
| 0:19.9 | One of the biggest television personalities in |
| 0:22.4 | the UK as well as a world-renowned stand-up comic. He has smash-hit Netflix specials, which |
| 0:27.9 | you can look up. He's a long-time host of big UK panel shows, including perhaps most notably |
| 0:32.9 | eight out of ten cats. And he will be touring next year. Well, actually, this year he's touring in the US and UK and Europe. |
| 0:40.2 | And then Australia and New Zealand, most notably for our Antipodeon listeners in early |
| 0:44.4 | 2026. |
| 0:45.9 | His brand new show is Jimmy Carr, laughs funny. |
| 0:49.5 | He and I sat down and chatted crowdwork, Elon Musk, immigration, Kanye, COVID COVID comedy. Please enjoy as much as I did, Jimmy Car. |
| 1:01.7 | Christmas Eve, incredibly cold minus 22. Oh. And we go trudging across a frozen lake and all I'm thinking is, well, what happens if the ice breaks and I fall into the freezing cold lake? |
| 1:15.9 | It didn't. |
| 1:17.3 | We get to the edge of the lake, and they've put hoses, garden hoses, into the edge of the lake to stir up the water so that it can't form ice. |
| 1:25.6 | And they've been there since the autumn. And so the ice has never formed, but the water so that it can't form ice. And they've been there since the autumn. |
| 1:28.7 | And so the ice has never formed. But the water is minus 22. It just can't form ice because |
| 1:33.2 | it's constantly moving. And there's a sauna. And in the sauna, it's whatever, you know, 98 degrees. |
| 1:40.0 | No, they take it very seriously. Very seriously. Because the sauna's in hotels in America or the UK, if you go to the sauna. |
| 1:46.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:46.6 | It's like they have to cap it at like 65 degrees. Yeah. Or someone might have a heart attack, yes. Whereas if you go to the proper ones, it's like, oh, this is. Yeah. If you will have a heart attack, then you will have a heart attack. I sent my, I was in New York recently |
| 1:42.1 | and I sent my, my tailor's a very nice guy at Max |
| 1:44.2 | and they're a store in, uh, he's the cutter. |
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