JLA is a company that supplies speakers, presenters and performers to corporate events (see here). Each year they hold a kind of corporate of their own – JLA’s Real Variety Show
They use it to showcase talent and you can see the type of entertainers that they have on their shows here.
Jimmy has appeared on their shows (once virtually, in 2020) a couple of times (see here) and it appears his first time was in 2002.
The 2002 show was in Queen Elizabeth Hall (on London’s South Bank) and the compere was Ed Byrne. Unfortunately, the only story that I could find was dated October 3rd and it didn’t mention the date of the show – but it was probably sometime that week. JLA’s own website doesn’t go back that far and 2002 was apparently their 12th annual event.
The performers were (in order of mention in The Stage article):
- Ed Byrne – Compere
- Jim Tavare
- Tim Vine
- Jimmy Carr
- John Lenahan
- Dara O’Brian
- Nina Conti
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