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Jimmy Carr

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Jimmy Carr
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 15
Comedian
Film Actor
Humorist
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Presenter
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James Anthony Patrick Carr
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I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker.
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I had a survey done on my house. 8 out of 10 people said they really rather liked it
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I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one.
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I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.
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Boxers don't have sex before a fight. Do you know why that is? They don't fancy each other.
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My mum told me the best time to ask my dad for anything was during sex. Not the best advice I'd ever been given. I burst in through the bedroom door saying Can I have a new bike?. He was very upset. His secretary was surprisingly nice about it. I got the bike.
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I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.
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Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation.
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Put Smarties tubes on cats legs, make them walk like a robot.
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Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.
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I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.
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I did a gig in the U.S. once for the homeless. I said 'It's nice to see so many bums on seats.'
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TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'.
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I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.
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You never want to be the grumpy guy, although I do have quite a grumpy face.
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Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!
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The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.
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It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.
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My girlfriend bought a cook book the other day called 'Cheap and easy vegetarian cooking'. Which is perfect for her, because not only is she vegetarian.
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All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.
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