So, what did Jimmy get up to in 2025?
Looking back, I’d say he’s had a pretty amazing year. Hectic. Lots and lots of travel. Millions of laughs. A mind-boggling variety of projects.
Firstly…
The current tour is called Laughs Funny so, apart from the mention of Charm Offensive, please assume all other gigs mentioned are under that name.
Gig numbers are estimates (so numbers may be slightly higher) and there are some corporate and/or charity gigs that are missing as they are not detailed in the blog yet. Plus, there is usually a small number of comedy club drop-ins that didn’t get written about (by Jimmy or the press) or posted on socials (by fans).
Otherwise – this is one hell of a list. Buckle up.
Jimmy Carr’s End of Year Report Card: 2025
January
January saw the final gigs of Jimmy’s Charm Offensive Arena tour of Canada, with his mate Jim Jefferies. Tour details here.
Apart from shows in England – this month also saw him travel to Dublin, Cyprus, Abu Dhabi (18,000 seat arena) and Castlebar. Around 28 shows in total.
While in Dublin he attended the Pendulum Business and Leadership Summit (here) to give a motivational speech.
Heckle Amnesty crowd work clips continue to drive a huge uptick in views across all social platforms. Details in “Billion View Comic” – here.
February
Only 21 shows this month, covering England, Galway, Romania and Bulgaria.
Jimmy’s YouTube channel is shortlisted in the Tellycast award category: Comedy Channel. Awards list – here.
Ticketmaster Ireland ran a Comedian of the Year Award. Jimmy was on the shortlist of 9 (here).
While in Ireland this month he made an appearance on The Tommy Tiernan Show (here).
March
Four new shows of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown were filmed in March.
- Recorded the Paul Whitehouse podcast – I’m ADHD! No You’re Not (here).
- Publication of the Alan Carr podcast episode – Life’s a Beach (here).
- Publication of the Jack Dee / Seann Walsh podcast – Oh My Dog! (here).
- Publication of the Mo Farah podcast Run With Mo (here).
March saw 29 tour shows in Slovenia, England, Belgium, Netherlands (17,000 in the Ziggo Dome) and Greece (16,000 in the Christmas Theatre).
Last One Laughing UK launches on Amazon to widespread acclaim and it is reported (in April) to have reached over 8m views. Read more here.
On the LOL UK promotion trail Jimmy makes a TV appearance on The One Show. He also makes radio appearances on Heart FM Breakfast (here) and The Chris Evans Breakfast Show (here).
There were also LOL UK promo interviews with the press (The Telegraph and The Times etc.) and a cast photoshoot on March 10th (Getty images here).
April
Only 16 shows in April (presumably half term family time slowed down the “hardest working man in comedy” a smidge). The shows in April were in England, Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
Another LOL UK promotional appearance – on Capital Breakfast (here).
On the 28th he nipped along to the Palladium to be a support act for Sarah Silverman. See here.
April saw the announcement of the 2026 New Zealand and Australia tours. This meant phone-in promotional appearances on The Project (here) and The Morning Rumble (here).
May
National Television Awards long lists were announced with Jimmy listed for Best TV Presenter, BFQ listed under Best Quiz Show and LOL UK listed under the Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award.
Broadcast of a TV interview: Alison Hammond’s Big Weekend (here).
This month saw the launch of the 10-episode Netflix podcast – The Big Pitch With Jimmy Carr. Details here.
May started out in Norway and England and then moved to the USA, where he performed 18 of this month’s 37 gigs. While in the US he also crammed in:
- An appearance at Dave Chappelle’s club in Yellow Springs – here.
- An appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast – here
- An appearance on the Modern Wisdom podcast – here
- A 4th appearance on Kill Tony (which has had over 2.7m views) – here
And probably hung out, watching a bunch of other comedians, along the way.
June
June saw a total of 25 tour gigs in England, Norway and included 13 sold out shows on the 2nd leg of the US tour.
Innovating once again – June saw Jimmy pop up with an event on Gaggl / Twitch (here).
More promotion for the 2026 Aus / NZ tour with a phone in to Mike Hosking Breakfast Show (here).
Filming Jimmy Carr’s Am I The A*sshole was this month (Comedy Central).
July
It’s announced that the hit show, Jimmy Carr’s I Literally Just Told You, will have a new series (S5). To be filmed in 2026. See here.
June saw 23 gigs, mostly venues with 2 shows a night, in England. Plus, he took a night off to see Oasis with Jim Jefferies.
Another Jimmy Carr YouTube channel launches – Jimmy Carr TV. See here.
Jimmy appeared on stage with Rory Sutherland to speak at the Mad//Fest marketing / advertising festival. More details here.
Netflix half yearly report released of “what we watched the first half of 2025”. Natural Born Killer had had over 5.2m views and Jimmy was the 2nd most watched Brit comedian with over 11.4m views. Details here.
August
Never off duty, Jimmy was “ambushed in a café” and persuaded to don a hat for a charity picture (here).
The press acknowledges that he’s the first UK comedian to reach 1.5m subscribers on YouTube. Details here.
Just the 10 shows this month, across England and the Isle of Man.
Jimmy launches a Substack account (here).
Recorded an episode of the Joseph Szeps podcast (here).
Amazon announce that they have commissioned S2 of LOL UK and it’s immediately filmed in August. More details here.
September
8 Out of 10 Cats Down Countdown filmed 2 more episodes this month.
India’s Dead Ant Comedy viewers voted Natural Born Killer as “Best International Special”.
Jimmy hosted the Evamore charity event, featuring Nile Rodgers & Chic, Anastacia and Mel C appearing. Details here.
17 of this month’s 33 gigs were on the 3rd leg of the USA tour. The others were all in England and Norway. While Stateside he also fitted in:
- An appearance on the Michael Malice podcast. Details here.
- A second appearance this year (5th overall) on Kill Tony (this one has had over 3.9m views). Details here.
- A second appearance on the Two Bears, One Cave podcast (but with only 1 bear). Details here.
October
October was the 4th US tour leg with 21 of the overall 29 shows there. Other shows were in England and Saudi Arabia.
Jimmy Carr’s Am I The A**hole (AITA) launched this month. All related posted are here.
New York based Signal Awards award Gold to The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr. See here.
November
The 4th US tour leg continued into November with another 12 of this month’s total of 28 shows. The rest of the month was gigs in England and Wales.
While Stateside he made another appearance on November 3rd, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (here).
Although Jimmy had played Arenas before (with Jim Jefferies, as support for Dave Chappelle and in other big venues in Australia and Europe) November saw him start to incorporate them into his UK/Ire tour. The difference with these shows (starting with Cardiff and Nottingham) was that the set up was “in the round”. With the audience on all 4 sides of the central stage.
A new YouTube channel is launched – Jimmy Carr en Español. Read about it here.
A shorts only channel is launched – Jimmy Carr Shorts – see here.
Another YouTube platform milestone – the first UK comedian to achieve over 1 billion views on YouTube (with his own channels) and well over 4.2 billion views of online clips overall. Read more here.
4 new episodes of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown were recorded.
Big Fat Quiz of Telly was recorded on the 25th.
- An episode of the Louis Theroux podcast was recorded. Read more here.
- A second appearance on Triggernometry was recorded. Read more here.
2026 tour of Canada goes on sale – as does gig in Paris, France.
December
Only 12 shows this month (across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales) as TV filming and promotional duties fill up the days. Gigs from the 12th to the 19th are all Arenas, in the round.
2026 tour dates were filled out with gigs announced in Denmark, Sweden, Dubai, Finland and Germany. With Canada, Aus and NZ legs there are over 150 shows booked in (so far).
Hosted the eXp Awards night and Christmas party (here).
- Publication of the Richard Farleigh podcast (here).
- Publication of the Gyles Brandreth podcast Rosebud (here).
A compilation of Jimmy’s favourite crowdwork moments is released (Road Kill) with a great intro, showing him walking on and off stage (a glimpse backstage). Read about it here.
The big news of the year – Jimmy’s first movie project as a co-writer, executive producer and actor, Fackham Hall, is finally out (for the US and UK, initially). More details – here.
Fackham promotional appearances included:
- Talksport – here
- Chris Evans Breakfast Show – here
- The Chris Moyles Show – here
- Heart Breakfast – here
- LBC with Tom Swarbrick – here
- Radio Manchester – here
- R4 The Comedy Club – here
- Barnes cinema, Q&A after film showing – here
- A second appearance on the Have a Word podcast – here
- TV appearance on BBC Breakfast – here
8 Out of Cats Does Countdown had another recording day on the 2nd.
Big Fat Quiz of the Year recorded on the 9th.
David McIntosh podcast recorded. See here.
Christmas TV belonged to The Carr! Three Christmas specials in the schedule (QI, Cats Countdown and BFQ of the Year). Details here.
How was that? Impressive, huh?
I estimated that it was 291 Laughs Funny gigs (but Jimmy thinks 285 – he posted the below after my blog post was live). But we can be certain that he made a TON of journeys by planes, trains, automobiles and the London Underground. Not to mention goodness knows how many hours in airports, letting him get through listening to dozens of audio books and podcasts.
Somewhere amongst all of that he managed to have a personal life, a couple of haircuts – and to do the school run.
I’m tired just looking up and typing that lot…
Can he top that in 2026??
Carr-Tell, December 31st 2025
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