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Jimmy Carr
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 15
Comedian
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James Anthony Patrick Carr
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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 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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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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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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I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.
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If we're all God's children, what's so special about Jesus?
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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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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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If I'm at home for the weekend - and that is almost never - I tend to get twitchy at about eight o'clock in the evening because my body clock is timed to go on stage. I don't know what to do with myself.
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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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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, 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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Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.
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Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation.
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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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I may be middle class, but I'm hard. 'Al dente', you could say.
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Remember to never answer a phone during sex, even if you hilariously answer with 'I can't talk now, I'm going into a tunnel'.
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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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