DVD launch promo 2010

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This promotion was to launch the DVD Making People Laugh. Recorded in an Apple store in London I’m afraid I cannot decipher who the interviewer is – but it’s a really good watch.

The video was uploaded 2015 but the record year was 2010.

Keywords for questions / topics covered:

  • Joke topics / offence
  • 9th tour / 6th DVD
  • Hecklers
  • Sense of humour, stuck at age 14
  • Inbetweeners
  • Funny at home?
  • How did he get into comedy?
  • Marketing job
  • Giving comedy a go in pubs
  • Self-doubt?
  • Known as hard working
  • How do you relax after shows?
  • Last year 220 nights a year / 2 hours work a day
  • How do other comedians view Jimmy?
  • What does his girlfriend make of the girlfriend jokes?
  • Can you laugh someone into bed?
  • Couples with shared sense of humour
  • Inspiration for jokes?
  • How do you come up with jokes?
  • Testing material on a crowd
  • Weight jokes
  • 12-year-old in the crowd
  • Teenagers come to Jimmy’s gigs with their parents
  • Is he ambitious?
  • When did you first realise you were successful?
  • Do you like television?
  • Is there a God?
  • Lost faith mid 20s
  • Charity jokes, taboos
  • Got into trouble last year (Paralympics joke)
  • Context
  • Does venue size affect the gig?
  • Favourite joke?
  • Do you think there’s room in comedy for a woman who hates women?
  • Women in comedy – Sarah Millican
  • When you write jokes do you ever sit there and think “that’s a cracking joke”?
  • Jimmy’s laugh
  • Do you ever put in material that is something that happened to you?
  • Story about bladder check (camera insertion), 7 years ago
  • Signing afterwards
  • Have you ever felt you should change your set, with new comedians coming along?
  • This year – John Bishop’s year
  • Favourite place to play?
  • Edinburgh Fringe
  • Your jokes are proper crazy, 8oo10c you did a Hitler impression
  • Frankie Boyle leaving Mock The Week
  • C4
  • How do you feel when you look back at your earlier gigs?
  • Have you considered performing abroad?
  • Do you think you will write something longer / fav comedian / fav condiment?

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