December 8^th 2015 and Jimmy is still a couple of weeks away from his Christmas break. Touring with Funny Business he makes an appearance on Steve Wright in the Afternoon for BBC Radio 2 (R2).

The episode (details and image here) also included Lulu and Jim Kerr (Simple Minds).

10 minute clip here titled “Jimmy Carr tells his cleanest jokes to Steve Wright”

And a 4-minute clip here titled “You don’t choose what you laugh at” Jimmy Carr on offensive humour – which is slightly different to the above.

Some of the topics covered, across the 2 clips, include:

• Best of Ultimate Gold Greatest Hits and how it came about
• Steve – “If you were to die in the next year and a half…”
• 300 jokes, 10 tours
• Not a family friendly tour – or for people with a moral compass
• Different rules on radio, TV – versus at a comedy gig
• Best bits are when audience are funny – crowd work
• 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown – 50 episodes – same studio in Manchester as daytime show
• Jimmy’s role as host
• Jimmy’s laugh
• May 2016 to November 2017 will be Ultimate Gold tour