Here Lies Jimmy Carr 2024

Kathy Burke has a podcast where she asks questions along the lines of “if you could plan your perfect death – what would you do?”. It’s a pretty morbid topic – but Jimmy still manages to wring some laughs out of it.

The Podcast is called Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake and he featured in the episode broadcast 16^th April 2024.

It’s only on Spotify, as an audio, apart from the promo clip below. Some of the topics covered include:

• Jimmy’s mother’s death
• Nabakov
• Making a will
• What would he have for his last meal (food and drink)
• How did you die? (as it’s titled “Here Lies Jimmy Carr” – he’s already died, for the purpose of this discussion)
• Meningitis as a child
• Bill Hicks
• Swimming with sharks
• Public response?
• Sean Lock
• Natural Born Killer (Netflix special)
• Regrets?
• Dyslexia and Cambridge
• Where would the funeral be?
• How will Jimmy get to his funeral?
• Who would you like there?
• Stephen Hawking
• What happens to Jimmy’s remains after the service?
• The wake
• Anyone he would like to haunt?
• What’s in the will?
• Famous last words