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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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Jimmy Carr
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 15
Comedian
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Stand-Up Comedian
Television Presenter
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James Anthony Patrick Carr
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British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!
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Saying that you don't believe in magic but do believe in god is a bit like saying you don't have sex with dogs, except labradors.
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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 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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I don't see myself as offending people.
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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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A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.
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I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.
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You never want to be the grumpy guy, although I do have quite a grumpy face.
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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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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 may be middle class, but I'm hard. 'Al dente', you could say.
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My dad's dying wish was to have his family around him. I can't help thinking he would have been better off with more oxygen.
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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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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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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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The bigger the audience, the better with comedy.
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TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'.
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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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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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