Back in 2006 Jimmy was voted 9^th in the Funniest Man in Britain poll (renamed from “100 Funniest People Alive“) by Zoo magazine (see here). By March 2011 he was at the Number 1 spot.

BCG have an image of Jimmy accepting his award, which appears to be a golden chicken corpse…

In a tie-in to Comic Relief each magazine sold this month raised 10p for the charity. Leigh Francis (as Keith Lemon) acted as guest editor.

Showing how taste changes over time the previous number 1 (Peter Kay) wasn’t in the top 10 and number 7 is a Blackpool football manager, who was making headlines at the time for his amusing post-match interviews.

1. Jimmy Carr
2. Frankie Boyle
3. Lee Evans
4. Karl Pilkington
5. Michael McIntyre
6. Ricky Gervais
7. Ian Holloway
8. John Bishop
9. Sean Lock
10. Russell Howard