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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.

Jimmy Carr

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Jimmy Carr
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 15
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James Anthony Patrick Carr
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I worry about my nan. If she's alone and falls, does she make a noise? I'm joking, she's dead.
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A big girl once came up to me after a show and said I think you're fatist. I said No, no. I think you're fattest.
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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 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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I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.
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There was one time where I failed to perform sexually. My girlfriend said to me oh don't worry, it happens to a lot of guys. Ok, there are two things wrong with that. First of all who are these other guys?, and second of all if it's happening to more than one of us, don't you think it could be YOUR fault?
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Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!
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I think they got it wrong with Saddam Hussein. They thought he had the A-Bomb. Instead he had a bomb.
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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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I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.
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I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.
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I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.
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