2008 and Jimmy was on his Joke Technician tour (180 dates long). He’d missed Montreal’s JFL – but August meant Edinburgh and the festival ran from the 3^rd to 25^th, this year.

Venue 150 at the EICC hosted his show from August 14-17 and 21-24 (8 nights in total). Starting at 9pm, with a 70-minute routine, tickets were £15 (concession £13).

Written and performed by: Jimmy Carr

The promo tag line for this, his 7th Edinburgh run, said:

At least the title makes it sound like Jimmy has a real job. Of all the shows he’s done, this is one of them. Not for the faint-hearted (the faint-hearted should also avoid salt)

Chortle ran a short blurb that sounds like it was written by Mr Carr:

Jimmy Carr is not just a TV star. He’s won awards, released chart-topping DVDs (there’s on out this November), written a best-selling book and broken box office records by performing to over 500,000 people in the last 3 years.

He maybe the hardest working man in comedy.

But perhaps he wouldn’t have to be if he had a little bit more talent.

This show is exactly the same as last year’s, except every singe word. It’s rude, crude and offensive but those aren’t the only reasons you’ll enjoy it.

Not to be missed, unless it’s not your kind of thing.

While up in Edinburgh he hosted a live 8 Out of 10 Cats special at the Edinburgh International TV Festival. Read more in this post.

The 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Programme can be viewed here.

Below are some of the comedians that performed that year (in the order that I spotted their names in the programme). Where their show name was mentioned – it’s in brackets. Note that some people had multiple shows running.

• Janey Godley (Domestic Godley)
• Adam Hills & Jason Byrne (Adam, Jason & Friends)
• Mark Olver (Ramble On)
• Alex Horne (Word Watching)
• Alun Cochrane (Owner of a Shed. And a Son. Thinks the World is Wonky)
• Andy Zaltzman (Andy Zaltzman Boldly Unbuttons the Cloak of Civilisation, But is Perplexed and Perturbed by What He Finds Lurking Beneath)
• Richard Herring (The Headmaster’s Son)
• David O’Doherty (Let’s Comedy)
• Andrew Lawrence (Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There!)
• Tim Vine (Punslinger)
• Danny Bhoy (By The Way)
• Bill Bailey (Tinselworm)
• Joe Wilkinson & Diane Morgan (Two Episodes of Mash presents…)
• Tim Minchin (Ready For This?)
• Ed Byrne (Different Class)
• Idiots of Ants 2008
• Rhod Gilbert (And The Award Winning Mince Pie)
• Jimmy Carr (Joke Technician)
• Tom Allen (A Voyage Around My Mother)
• Sara Millican (Sarah Millican’s Not Nice)
• Hal Cruttenden (Climb Every Molehill)
• Rich Hall (Fifty-Cent Words)
• Otis Lee Crenshaw (aka Rich Hall)
• Russell Howard (Dingledodies)
• Mile Jupp (Drifting)
• Isy Suttie (The Suttie Show)
• Ivan Brackenbury (Ivan Brackenbury’s Hospital Radio Christmas Show)
• Jason Byrne (Cats Under Mats, Having Chats, With Bats)
• Jerry Sadowitz (Comedian, Magician, Psychopath II)
• Jerry Sadowitz (The People versus Jerry Sadowitz)
• Jim Jefferies (Hammered)
• John Bishop (Cultural Ambassador)
• Jon Richardson (Dogmatic)
• John Pinette (I Say, Nay Nay)
• Josie Long (All The Planet’s Wonders (Shown in Detail))
• Kerry Godliman (This Isn’t What I Was Expecting)
• Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler (Double Down Hearts)
• Bridget Christie (The Court of King Charles II The Second)
• Omid Djalili (Live 2008)
• Daniel Sloss & Davey See (Life in 2D – Free)
• Louis CK (Chewed Up)
• Lucy Porter & Des Clarke (Lucy and Dec Show Off…)
• Lucy Porter (The Bare Necessities)
• Mark Watson (All The Thoughts I’ve Had Since I Was Born)
• Michael McIntyre
• Matt Forde (Matt Forde’s On Heat)
• Reginald D Hunter (No Country For Grown Men)
• Mike Wozniak
• Nick Mohammed (Nick Mohammed is a Character Comedian)
• Stephen K Amos (Find the Funny)
• Nina Conti (Evolution)
• Paul Tonkinson (The Anti Mid-Life Crisis)
• Henning Wehn and Otto Kuhnle (1000 Years of German Humour)
• Paul Merton (Paul Merton’s Impro Chums)
• Paul Merton (Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns)
• Russell Kane (Gaping Flaws)
• Russell Kane (Russell Kane presents Fakespeare: The Lamentable Tragedie of Yate’s Wine Lodge)
• Shazia Mirza (A Portrait of Shazia Mirza)
• Britt Ekland (Britt on Britt)
• Susan Calman (Maybe It Is Your Fault)
• Sean Lock (Sean Lock & Friends at the Fringe)
• Scott Capurro (Scott Capurro Goes Deeper)
• Simon Brodkin is Lee Nelson
• Stewart Lee (Scrambled Egg)
• Tom Stade (Oh F**k, Do We Need a Title Too!)
• Andrew Maxwell (Supernatural)
• Zoe Lyons (Messed up Mantra of the Messed up Modern Mind)

This year Amnesty’s Stand Up For Freedom had gigs on the 6^th and 13^th and performers included:

• Ed Byrne
• Rich Hall
• Stephen K Amos
• Brendon Burns
• Hans Teeun
• Reginald D Hunter
• David O’Doherty
• Andrew Maxwell