In 2024 Jimmy guested on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, Episode 1531. Listen here.

The podcast blurb says:

When Marc asked Jimmy Carr to be a guest on WTF years ago, Jimmy admits he wasn’t ready for it. He was already an established comedian at the time, but he felt like Public Jimmy was one thing and Private Jimmy was another. Now years later, Jimmy believes that age and experience have allowed him to get out of his comedy comfort zone and explore more personal truths, as he does in this talk with Marc and in his new Netflix special, Natural Born Killer.

Broadcast in April 2024 it was probably recorded March 18^th, before the recording of You Made It Weird.

Topics that came up include:

• Seeing Barry Manilow in Las Vegas
• Jimmy had just played Carnegie Hall
• George Carlin and Richard Pryor and the beginnings of stand-up
• Music in the 70s
• Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy
• Neal Brennan’s State of the Union talk at Montreal
• Stephen Pinkner
• Neil Postman – Amusing Ourselves to Death
• Alduous Huxley
• Helicopter parenting
• Jimmy’s kids and technology
• Netflix – The Social Network
• Robbie Williams
• CBT and NLP
• Happiness is expectations exceeded
• Recent loss of Jimmy’s dog
• Anxiety
• Conflation of depression and sadness
• Working for Shell oil
• Slough and Irish immigrant parents
• Marc and Jimmy met at Edinburgh 2007
• Going to Cambridge
• Mother was a nurse
• Enmeshment, which of your parents was sick
• Virgin until 26
• Hasn’t seen his dad in 25 years, getting sued
• Neal Brennan on narcissism
• You can’t have an easy life and a great character
• Gratitude
• Overton window and politics
• Mike Birbiglia
• Dark humour
• Catholicism
• Prioritise later
• Vatican 2
• Rosetta Stone of Comedy
• Amanda Baker
• Playing Las Vegas
• Don Rickles
• Cancel culture
• Men’s mental health, suicide
• Adam Curtis documentary – The Mayfair Set
• Sylvia Plath
• Gun control / Australia