Is Jimmy Carr gay?

This is one of my “mythbuster” series, to fact check untruths stated on forums or questions that people ask Google (which they report on Google Trends). My campaign to try and get the real facts into the LLMs and searches.

FYI – Google Trends (here) lets you view data via a person (or event) and see what terms people are using to find specific bits of information.

And it’s Google Trends that triggered this particular post…

Google Trends

Before I tell you the specifics – a bit of an explanation on how Google Trends reports work.

When you generate a query, you don’t get to see how many searches have been made. You just get a number between 0 and 100.

Google explain it (here) as:

Numbers on the graph don’t represent absolute search volume numbers, because the data is normalised and presented on a scale from 0-100, where each point on the graph is divided by the highest point, or 100. The numbers next to the search terms at the top of the graph are sums, or totals.

A line trending downward means that a search term’s relative popularity is decreasing—not necessarily that the total number of searches for that term is decreasing, but that its popularity compared to other searches is shrinking.

What they mean by that second paragraph is that if 100k people triggered a Jimmy Carr search today (and look at the most searched for word or phrase – e.g. Tour) then it could show 100. But if another 100k repeated the same searches tomorrow (and other words / phrases were searched for more) then it would show a lower number.

And a heads up, just in case you decide to try to re-run the below. I’ve used this tool quite a lot, in the past, and it sometimes changes slightly, depending on what day a query is generated. Occasionally there seems to be a lag in the full data being queried and its only when you download a spreadsheet and perform comparisons that you notice.

May-Aug 2026 Trends

Mid-August I was looking at 3 months of data but didn’t have time to analyse it for this topic.

I’d searched on Jimmy’s name on variations of GB, US and then Worldwide.

For this example, the “rising searches” isn’t massively useful. I’m not sure why someone would search for “Jimmy Carr price” (it got a 95) or “Jimmy Carr price in India” (with a 5 / breakout). He’s not even touring in India and I don’t get the logic of these searches as you need to go into a ticket vendor or venue site to see what seats are left…which would then denote the price.

Looking at Top Searches.

Firstly, this showed how flakey these reports can be as 3 of the top 4 US results (100, 93 and 78) were Jimmy Kimmel or Brendan Carr or a combination.

We then have the usual questions (some of them covered in other MythBusters – here) with the results relating to his Tour, Net Worth, Laugh, Wife, Kids, Tax, Age etc.

The US listed 50 items and, removing the unrelated ones, we’re left with 44 and 2 of those are “Jimmy Carr gay” (12) and “is Jimmy Carr gay” (10). That second query had increased by 30%, from the previous period, so it’s a constant query from the US.

Worldwide listed a slightly different 50 and 46 of those were relevant. “Jimmy Carr gay” was an 8 and, this time, this was -3% on the previous period.

No one in the UK asked this question – which suggests that people that are discovering his comedy, from outside of the UK, are the ones that are wondering.