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I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

Jimmy Carr

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Jimmy Carr
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 15
Comedian
Film Actor
Humorist
Radio Personality
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Stand-Up Comedian
Television Presenter
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James Anthony Patrick Carr
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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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Saying that you don't believe in magic but do believe in god is a bit like saying you don't have sex with dogs, except labradors.
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British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!
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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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Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation.
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Once I was doing a sponsored walk. In the end I managed to raise so much money, I could afford a taxi.
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A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.
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When you eat a lot of spicy food, you can lose your taste. When I was in India last summer, I was listening to a lot of Michael Bolton.
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When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend and I used to think that he went everywhere with me, and that I could talk to him and that he could hear me, and that he could grant me wishes and stuff. And then I grew up, and I stopped going to church.
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Recently my girlfriend asked me if I was having sex behind her back and I replied, Yes, who did you think it was?
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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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Viagra has instructions: 'Keep away from children' - what kind of man do you think I am?
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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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I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.
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If we're all God's children, what's so special about Jesus?
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But what's true about comedians is that we've all got a huge hole in our personality. In a room of 3,000 people, we're the one person facing in the opposite direction - yet we have this overwhelming desire to be liked.
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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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My dad's dying wish was to have his family around him. I can't help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen.
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Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service.
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Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the same way as clichés or old wives' tales do.
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