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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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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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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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Boxers don't have sex before a fight. Do you know why that is? They don't fancy each other.
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After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.
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A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.
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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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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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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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Viagra has instructions: 'Keep away from children' - what kind of man do you think I am?
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A lady with a clipboard stopped me in the street the other day. She said, 'Can you spare a few minutes for cancer research?' I said, 'All right, but we won't get much done.'
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When people come over to my house for dinner, I always have a vegetarian option. They can make do, or they can **** off!
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I like to write a joke without any fat on it.The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically.
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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 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 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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It had to be hammered home quite a bit because I didn't see any humour in my life at all.
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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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You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world and you want to talk about that, then fine. Or you can't talk about disability, but disabled comics can talk about that.
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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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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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