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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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Jimmy Carr
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 15
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James Anthony Patrick Carr
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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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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 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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I, of course, don't have an accent. This is just how things sound when they are pronounced properly.
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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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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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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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Boxers don't have sex before a fight. Do you know why that is? They don't fancy each other.
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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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I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.
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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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I had a survey done on my house. 8 out of 10 people said they really rather liked it
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British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!
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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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Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!
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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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The bigger the audience, the better with comedy.
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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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Put Smarties tubes on cats legs, make them walk like a robot.
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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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