Jimmy has never produced a merchandise range but earlier tours always had glossy, A4 sized tour programmes produced. Copies can often be found on places like eBay and, if you are lucky, you may find an autographed one.

This is about the tour / programme for Funny Business, which would be released as the Netflix special of the same name – here). March 18^th 2026 was the Netflix release date, his first special for them and more posts about the Funny Business tour are here.

The show was written and performed by Jimmy Carr.

It had started January 2014 and ran through 2016. I can’t be specific on when the end date was as shows that were sometimes advertised under a tour name actually ended up containing material written for the next tour, once the material had been published on a DVD or (from now on) on Netflix.

This is the problem with being constantly on tour and selling tickets 12-18 months ahead (even though you are planning a new tour name / promotional material etc.).

2016 then saw him begin the Best of Ultimate Gold Greatest Hits tour.

All tour details (not just Funny Business) and links to specials, programmes etc. are here.

Programme

What kind of thing do you find in Jimmy’s tour programmes? I’ll add a couple of page images here and list the content on each page.

Obviously, there is the promotional photo shoot and artwork and, back in 2016, the image on the front cover is the one that would be used for posters, print adverts etc.

Note that the version that I bought was autographed on the front…so that would be missing from other copies.

• Front cover (see below)
• B/W photo of Jimmy, from behind, with a “your mum” tattoo on his left forearm / Steven Wright quote
• Welcome message, from Jimmy, with colour photo
• Colour image of Jimmy with some of his jokes around him
• Colour image / William Makepeace Thackray quote
• Colour image / Steve Martin quote (see below)
• Colour image with “Apology” quote from Thing X
• Interview, interspersed with colour images – 6 pages
• Colour image / Larry Gelbart quote
• B/W image of Jimmy in a straight jacket with wild hair / Mel Brooks quote
• Interview page 7
• Interview page 8, white sofa pics (see below)
• Interview page 9 with 8 Out of 10 Cats behind the camera shots
• Interview page 10 – more 8oo10c pics
• B/W image / George Benard Shaw quote
• Colour image / Joss Whedon quote
• DVD promo pages x 4
• Colour image of Jimmy in an Astronaut suit / Peter Cook quote
• Colour image / Michael Crichton quote
• Colour image of Jimmy flicking a V sign with some short Q&A text
• Colour image with some more Q&A text
• Colour image / Ilyas Kassam quote
• Colour image of Jimmy as a surgeon / Thomas Szasz quote
• Colour of image with a finger to his lips / Benny Hill quote
• Colour image / Giles Fraser quote
• Colour image with thanks from Jimmy
• Back cover – brick wall with all of his tour posters on from Bare Faced Ambition to Funny Business (see below)

Poster

The poster enclosed has the programme front cover on one side and the below on the reverse.

I omitted to measure the poster – but where you can see folds, each of those rectangles is about a sheet of A4 size. So BIG.