Jimmy has appeared on What Now? With Trevor Noah for a 2 hour chat.

Convenience is Stealing Your Life

This was recorded in New York, possibly when Jimmy was there for Kill Tony Live in late August.

Books or quotes mentioned (see Booklist, here):

• Dunning Kruger Effect (here)
• Iain McGilchrist – The Master and His Emissary – The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
• Joseph Campbell – The Hero with a Thousand Faces
• Monty Python’s Life of Brian (see Watchlist here)
• Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them (see Booklist)
• Benign Violation Theory – Jimmy said Robert McGraw but meant Peter – see this post.
• Trevor mentioned the slides that are projected, before Jimmy’s live shows, and said he’d loved the message “…jokes about all kinds of terrible things, but they’re just jokes, they are not the terrible things”. This was the Terribly Funny and TF 2.0 tours – see more info on HDM post here.
• Rainer Maria Rilke quote – “Let everything happen to you, beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final”.
• Warren Farrell, Dr – The Myth of Male Power
• Jimmy’s tailor– Thom Sweeney (here)
• Roger Bootle – economist
• Neil Howe – The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End
• Thomas Sowell – There are no solutions, only trade-offs
• Esther Perell – 2 of her books on the Booklist
• Alex Hormozi – see also on Booklist

Chapters

• 0:55 – AI & Simulation Theory
• 5:22 – The AI World Experiment
• 10:35 – Two AIs Fell in Love & Committed Suicide
• 15:33 – The Three Humiliations of Mankind
• 16:52 – Left Brain vs Right Brain
• 19:21 – Star Wars Is Finnegans Wake
• 25:10 – Eddie Izzard’s Death Star Canteen
• 29:30 – Why Comedy Matters
• 38:38 – The Birth of Musical Notation
• 51:04 – How Jimmy’s Comedy Evolved
• 59:19 – Growing Up With a Depressed Mother
• 1:15:11 – The Fear of Fatherhood
• 1:26:29 – The John Lennon Story
• 1:29:51 – Why Jimmy Carr Always Wears a Suit
• 1:38:15 – Fixing Britain
• 1:58:11 – Friction Is Good
• 2:01:57 – Pro Drinking, Pro Gangs, Pro Gambling
• 2:12:10 – Jimmy’s Terrifying AI Conspiracy
• 2:20:00 – Jimmy Carr’s New Book