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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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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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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 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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Viagra has instructions: 'Keep away from children' - what kind of man do you think I am?
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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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You never want to be the grumpy guy, although I do have quite a grumpy face.
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The bigger the audience, the better with comedy.
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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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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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British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!
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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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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 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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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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A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.
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Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!
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