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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