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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 used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.
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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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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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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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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 may be middle class, but I'm hard. 'Al dente', you could say.
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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 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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Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation.
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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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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 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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The bigger the audience, the better with comedy.
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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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Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.
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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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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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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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