Russell Howard had a podcast called Wonderbox, which was relaunched under the name Five Brilliant Things in Nov 2024.

The format of Wonderbox was for guests to list their most treasured possessions, to put into a Wonderbox.

Jimmy guested in Oct 2023 and the Spotify version has been renamed (to Five Brilliant things) – listen here.

The episode description says:

Jimmy Carr joins Russell today to put his most treasured possessions into the Wonderbox. Jimmy explains the importance of a tennis scoreboard, why there’s nothing better than a perfectly made suit and Russell explores the idea of Jimmy having a hype-man at his gigs.

There are a couple of clips on YouTube – always frustrating to find the whole thing was filmed and yet not released on video. According to Chortle the cocktail clip alone, across various social platforms, had 17m views.

Jimmy Carr invented a brand new cocktail (20 seconds)

How Jimmy Carr and Robbie Williams wrote a song together (8 minutes)

The Robbie story was kind of glossed over – read more in this post.

Some of the topics covered:

• First time they met 1999 Edinburgh
• Writing jokes that don’t work / making friends with failure
• Tennis scoring system / flow state hobbies
• Wearing a suit demonstrates professionalism
• Love of coffee
• Charisma v Charm
• How you have to speak on The One Show
• Authentic voice / podcasts
• Theatres v arenas
• Buying vinyl v streaming music on Spotify
• Song writing with Robbie Williams
• Early days – listening to stuff in the car while travelling to gigs
• Love for the Edinburgh Fringe
• Lee Evans and his contribution to comedy
• Jimmy and Russell went to see Chappelle in Montreal / having phones locked in bags
• Chappelle has a hype man – would Jimmy ever have one?
• Jimmy doing arenas – discussing what it’s like to play in the round