Bio

You probably already have a pretty good idea of who Jimmy Carr is – but let’s run through his Bio details, just for completeness (and new fans). And, also, to put straight some of the errors on other websites and in AI…

To try and keep this “biography / virtual CV” a manageable length there will be links out to filters of posts on the blog. For example – the Friends filter will show you all the posts that have been tagged as involving friends, Music will show you which songs he has co-written or sang on. Those posts help build an image of the off-duty person behind the persona.

All events (posts) are also tagged by year – meaning you can check out what else he was getting up to (see example – 2006).

This Bio page is very much a living document in that it’s regularly updated, as the blog grows. Some parts of it reads a little bit like a disjointed list of facts (sorry!) because I’m still refining it. Bear with me – it’s a work in progress.

What is Jimmy Carr, the Stand-up, known for?

You will most likely know that he has a dark sense of humour and that his “love language” is one liner jokes. But to say that he pushes boundaries and tells dick jokes would not be the full story.

From 2004 he released 8 DVDs (here) and then moved on to Netflix in 2015 (see Specials here). It remains to be seen whether this is indicative of a permanent move but December 2025 saw him release a “self-produced special” with a longer length crowd work compilation, Road Kill, on YouTube (here).

He LOVES his job and regularly enthuses about it (see in this video clip, when he was asked if would ever stop doing stand-up). He’s said in the past he would like to “die with his boots on” (aka performing on stage) like his friend Ian Cognito.

He’s also been open about performing “gratitude practice” in place of meditation, which he finds hard because his mind won’t stop whirring. He explained this about 1.5 minutes into this video, when he was asked “what do you think about before you go to sleep at night”.

What follows below is a walk-through of his early life, career, TV work, touring, Roast Battles etc.

Heckle Amnesty / Crowd Work

June 2024 saw the launch of the Heckle Amnesty series (here).

Heckle Amnesty clips are basically Jimmy giving away the improvised material that only happens at that specific show. They are published on his YouTube channels and also across his other social media accounts (the full list of all his accounts & channels are on this Menu page).

Some comedians complain that this type of video clip is lazy because it’s just “time filler for clicks”. And you can sometimes see that when a newbie comic is just asking the front row what they do and such like. Everyone has to start somewhere…

However, in the hands of a pro, like Jimmy, it’s a showcase for how fast he can think on his feet – and also shows that he can laugh at himself when the joke is on him.

Firstly – the crowd work is 100% NOT audience plants or staged in some way. He has, for around 20+ years, had a 15–20 minute section of his show where he lets people “have at it” with their best shots at what was originally known in the UK as heckling (now labelled around the world as crowd work).

Lately the audience are also asking questions on all manner of serious topics (see the Wise words-quotes tag) and he has a growing reputation for not only being about dick jokes and dismantling hecklers with barbs. He’s started to show the kinder, more thoughtful and well-read side of himself.

If you’ve not seen those types of clips before – here are a couple of examples:

  • This Nobel Prize joke is perfection and he left one heckler stunned when he voiced his support for 2nd wave feminism (more feminism related posts here).
  • Not all hecklers get roasted though, as this 16-year-old virgin found out. Sometimes Jimmy recognises that the moment calls for some wisdom to be passed on and shows his fatherly, empathetic side.
  • This video of him tearing up had many surprised and I’d venture that it’s not every day that someone tells you that you have stopped them from killing themselves.

For more stories like this – see the suicidal thoughts tag. Comedy is VERY important to many of us.

He also regularly recommends books, films and documentaries in podcasts and also during gigs (for a reading list see the Booklist link on the menu bar).

As a youngling…

James Anthony Patrick Carr was born 15th September 1972. I actually don’t like posting such personal info as this – but his DOB is all over the internet, so me hiding it would make no difference.

He was born in London, England to Jim Snr (full name Patrick James Carr) and Nora – both Irish immigrants (meaning that he had a stereotypical Catholic upbringing).

Or, if you would prefer the silly answer, he jokes about his conception here.

When he was 3 years old, he had a brush with death as a result of developing Bacterial Meningitis, after a dose of Mumps. Read more here.

Jimmy has a British-Irish passport and has said that, when touring Ireland, he likes to see his relatives around the Limerick and Kilkee areas. He often describes himself as a plastic paddy and said that, as a child, he felt like he didn’t belong in either place as long summers in Ireland were followed by trying to fit in again in Slough (where he grew up), because they came back, from holiday, with Irish accents. Conversely the English boys turning up in Ireland for 6 weeks were outsiders there too.

Jimmy is the middle of 3 sons, Colin being the oldest (Jimmy’s Irish twin – meaning they were born within 16 months of each other) and Patrick (14 years younger).

Jim Snr and Nora separated (but never actually divorced) in 1994 and Patrick opted to stay with his mother and brothers. There was a lot of familial turbulence at this time and Jimmy is still estranged from his father – but that’s not something that I feel we need to get into here (it’s their business and it pays to remember that “you can choose your friends – but not your family”). Jimmy did touch on the topic in his book Before and Laughter (here).

Sadly, Nora died of Pancreatitis in 2001 and Jimmy has spoken of it in many podcasts (try listening to Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake).

Education

Jimmy’s education came courtesy of:

He’d moved from Burnham Grammar to Royal Grammar just in time to do his A Levels and managed to get four A grades. Pretty good going for someone with dyslexia who didn’t learn to “properly read or write” until he was 10 or 11.

This school move had taken him a 90-minute bus ride from Slough and he’s said that the change of schools, at 16, allowed him to reinvent himself and, with new friends and surroundings, he stopped messing around and his grades improved.

At Gonville and Caius (FYI – Caius is pronounced “keys”) Jimmy read Social Science and Political Science and, in 1994, graduated with first-class honours. What was his degree about?

Social science – Encompasses a wide range of disciplines like sociology, anthropology, economics, psychology, and history, all of which study different aspects of human society. It examines human behaviour, social structures, relationships, and institutions, seeking to understand how societies function and change.

Political science – Deals with the study of politics, including political systems, governance, power, public policy, and international relations. Includes comparative politics, international relations, political theory, political economy, and policy studies.

He has described Cambridge life as being a little like being at Hogwarts – wearing “gowns” and drinking sherry. With Professor Stephen Hawking (who would later become a friend – see here) zipping around the cloisters in his electric wheelchair.

After leaving Cambridge he did a 3-year course in Psychotherapy. Read more here.

Working life (pre comedy)

Jimmy has said in podcasts that he drifted along, doing what other people expected him to do by first going to the best College that he could and then taking a proper job at Shell (Oil), for a couple of years. This is something that he has talked about a lot in various interviews: how he didn’t really make a big decision until his mid-20s.

At Shell he worked in the marketing department but has joked that it was a ridiculously easy job as the public were doing his job for him, just by filling their cars up with petrol.

At times articles have stated that he suffered from depression, around this time, but he has often tried to clarify this by saying that sadness and depression (a clinical thing) are not the same thing. He was sad and couldn’t foresee himself ever wanting to have “his manager’s job”.

There’s a bit of fog around exactly when he took voluntary redundancy but in this 2005 Independent interview he says that his move into comedy overlapped with his marketing career for about 3 months. As his first gigs were late 1998 this possibly means that his redundancy was early 1999. And, in this Daily Mail interview, he says that he was about 26 – which would equate to 1998-ish.

During his brief stint at Shell he did a course on NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming therapy) and also tried CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy). He’d been on a trip to Israel and lost his faith when he realised it was basically “Disneyland” (everything there was too new to be authentic). Contributing to this huge turn around (he’d actually considered becoming a Catholic Priest) was reading books by Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.

In his podcast chat with Jordan B Peterson he talks about how his getting into NLP was like swapping one belief system for another. What these courses (and other research) have taught him was how to understand himself better by learning how the human mind functions.

Stand Up Career & Touring

Jimmy is obsessed with comedy and, in the early days, lots of his contemporaries noticed him turning up to venues with a Filofax (which has now been updated to making notes on his phone).

He’s commented that a lot of people were getting drunk or doing drugs (having a great time) but he was focussed on learning his trade and gave up alcohol for around 12 years.

Starting out he would often drive for many hours to do a cash gig above a pub for an amount that didn’t cover his petrol money. He often did 300 gigs a year and this is when the “hardest working man in comedy” label began to stick. This post for How many gigs? details how many he now performs each year.

To dive more deeply into his career roots you can trace his comedy journey through filters such as career history, early gigs, stand up or tour etc. Or you can search, by name, for comedians that he started out with (see tags under Pubs & Clubs 1998-2001). Or go through festival names (such as Edinburgh, JFL ) or tour names (Bare Faced Ambition, Charm Offensive).

His 8 DVD releases (see here) sold over 1.2m copies and the uncut versions are now available to watch on his YouTube Channel (here). The original upload of his Laughing and Joking show had 24m+ views.

This blog is starting to document his tours and so, for example, you can read about Terribly Funny (which became Terribly Funny 2.0) and sold over 1.2m tickets globally – here. And there are also details of the TF Tour Programme here.

All Tours are listed on the Tours, DVDs and Netflix page – here.

To document where he’s performed Jimmy posts pictures of “Woolly Jimmy” (on X and Instagram). This blog reposts that information to develop a searchable record of the countries visited (see under the tag Woolly). That tag is use to differentiate the gigs that have happened from the promotional type posts, relating to announcements of new shows.

Many images of him on stage, at airports or just out and about end up on Instagram and these are compiled within the Instagram Series. These pictures put paid to the myth (often spouted online) that he doesn’t engage with the public and is therefore out of touch. He’s actually someone that is endlessly patient and has even had to stop to record video messages while on the beach, on holiday.

USA, Canada, ROW, Europe, Aus & NZ

Depending on what you view as an official country…to date he has toured (still tours) more than 50! The Tour Locations page has the list – see here.

2025 saw him touring the US more than he ever has before and 2026 sees him, once again, escaping the UK winter to go to Aus & NZ (87+ shows, so far, with more being added to keep up with demand).

2026 also sees him embarking on the largest Canadian tour, ever, by an International Comedian. Currently booked into 31 cities – see here.

In between all of those long-haul flights and the sitting around in airports he will be back and forth to Europe.

For tickets see the Tickets! link above – or go to JimmyCarr.com and use the dropdown list to choose your part of the world.

Trying to break America?

Recently I have noticed online comments that have (in a sneering manner) suggested that he’s “trying to break America” recently (with the suggestion being that he won’t manage it).

Actually – he’s been going there, on a regular basis, since 2002 – when he first appeared on Conan (2002-8 – here) and Leno (2003-5 – here) and Carson Daly (2006 – here) and Fallon (2016-25 – here).

These were not just trips to TV studios as, just to highlight some of the older events, he was at Aspen Comedy Festival (2003 – here), played some small comedy clubs and attended events such as the Comedy Central Emmy after party (here).

Basically, he’s been building a professional relationship for years and when things like a series about the LA Comedy Store are put together (here) he’s usually the ONLY Brit in the show.

JFL – Montreal, Canada

In 2002 he also began an annual love affair with Canada’s Just For Laughs festival (Juste pour rire) – here. Between 2002 and 2022 he’s performed there a whopping 17 times (including the virtual attendance in 2020).

When JFL was at its biggest Jimmy would spend a week there – running around from venue to venue to appear in Roast Battles, The Nasty Show, Brit-ish, Midnight Surprise, Bumping Mics, ComedyPro and trying to squeeze in an afternoon at the Hope and Cope cancer centre (here).

Money issues (related to pandemic shut down) has diminished the size of the fest and many of the bigger comics now go to Netflix is a Joke Fest in LA (here).

Arenas

When home, in the UK, he tries to be home to do the school run as much as possible and, in an attempt to have some “days off with the kids”, he now frequently does 2 gigs a night (7pm and 9.30pm) in smaller venues or an 8pm show when it’s an arena show (trying to cram in the same number of shows per annum).

Once he’d found that he could regularly manage 2 daily performances (without blowing his voice) his tour team started to deploy this scheduling to towns where the capacity of the venue meant that one show was not enough to fulfil demand.

His modus operandi is to go where his audience is – even if it’s a small, out of the way place that International comedians don’t usually visit.

Although he’s performed in Arenas outside of the UK for several years, December 2025 saw him introduce these larger venues to his UK / Ire tour.

NOTHING can quite compare to this Arena in Croatia – what a venue to play!

Inspired by a 2023 gig in Australia (where he was support for his mate Dave Chappelle – here) he’s adopted the custom of having the Arena set up “in the round”. He’s said that this means he’s the “Lazy Susan of comedy”, turned around on a boxing ring type stage, in the centre of the space, with screens above. See this gig at Wembley and the Auckland image, below.

Other stand-up comedians

He mentioned in a 2025 Modern Wisdom podcast that he “gets annoyed when comics slag off another comic” (describing it as the “narcissism of small differences”).

He frequently posts recommendations for the tours or specials of other comedians and makes himself available as support for whatever someone else is working on, whether it be a podcast or TV show or to even be an actual support act.

The “support act” gigs (for people like Dave Chappelle, Sarah Silverman, Theo Von) are listed under Shared Stage. Which also includes co-headline gigs with friends like Jim Jefferies and Louis CK. The man loves to work!

Awards, Accolades & Statistics

The Awards page lists all of the Awards and Accolades that he has won – or been nominated or short listed for (plus hosting and presenting). The list is regularly updated and changes to these “list type” pages are noted on the Updated page (on the menu above).

The Stats page pulls together posts relating to career facts and figures. How many days has Last One Laughing UK been Top 10 and in how many countries? What are the viewing figures of other shows like? How many social media followers does he have, compared to other comedians? How are his Netflix specials doing?

Links on the Stats page also show that, when analysing British comedians, he is 2nd only to Ricky Gervais, in terms of numbers of followers on social media and the 2 of them are also the biggest Brits in terms of Netflix “hours viewed” – here.

Probably not something either of them envisaged when they took their first tentative steps (with Stephen Merchant) with 2001’s Rubbernecker, Meet Ricky Gervais and their respective XFM radio shows.

Where Jimmy is often ahead of the pack is in utilising all aspects of TV, social media and streaming to its utmost… which brings us on to the next section:

Innovations – Streaming, YouTube etc.

Jimmy has ALWAYS tried to have his finger on the pulse, keeping an eye on current trends and making use of the latest technology. He was an early adopter of both MySpace (which launched in 2003) and what was then called Twitter and currently has social accounts on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, Threads and YouTube.

Not everything listed in this section is groundbreaking stuff – but his overall approach is fairly unique, in the comedy world, in how adaptable he is to changing trends. He likes to push himself out of his comfort zone and is happy to feel “imposter syndrome”.

He’s said recently that he’s in “the Jimmy Carr business” and you can see this, when you analyse how he conducts his career. Looking back on what he’s tried out and how successful he’s been (since his first gig above a pub in 1998) this looks like a blueprint for how to become a massive International star.

Some examples of this adaptability include:

  • Way back in 2007 he was the first comedian to perform in cyberspace, through a gig on the platform Second Life. Using his MySpace community to organise an audience, his avatar performed to a virtual room (see here).
  • 2021 saw Jimmy and Joel Dommett compete in a Celebrity Esports competition (see here).
  • Reddit can be an unforgiving space but, in 2022, Jimmy did an AMA (Ask Me Anything – here).
  • June 2024 saw the launch of Jimmy’s Heckle Amnesty crowd work videos series. Read about what sparked this idea and how the project works here.
  • He also collaborated with Gaggl.tv and added content to Twitch (see here).

All of these things helped to promote his comedy into please where a new audience demographic may be.

Although I’ve mentioned that 2025 saw him add Arena shows “in the round” (to his UK / Ire Laughs Funny tour) he had performed shows of his own in this format in the past. From September 2024, for example, he had toured Canadian Arenas, with his mate Jim Jefferies, on the Charm Offensive tour (here) and he’s gigged in many Arenas around Europe, over the years.

As another outlet for his writing (like putting out 2 books and co-writing a film is not enough – here) August 2025 saw him open an account on Substack (see here).

October 2025 saw another first, for a British comedian, with the launch of his 4th YouTube channel – Jimmy Carr en Español (here). Stand up clips (Heckle Amnesty) are being re-worked with the audio being provided by Spanish speakers, to broaden his market. World domination will surely follow!

As someone that can see where linear TV is heading…2025 also saw him launch Jimmy Carr TV on YouTube. Like a Chess Grand Master he’s planning ahead and, while having massive hit shows across a number of channels (LOL for Amazon, Cats Countdown for C4, AITA for Comedy Central etc.) he’s also setting himself up to capture a YouTube / TikTok audience.

With the podcast market so crowded, he went a different route and collaborated with the BBC / Netflix and hosted The Big Pitch With Jimmy Carr in a 10-episode series (here).

And November 2025 saw the launch of a Shorts only channel – Jimmy Carr Shorts.

March 2026 saw the last of his 4 DVD releases made available on Amazon Prime and Apple TV under the name Trigger Warning (see here). Another step in ensuring that, wherever you consume your comedy content, he’s got a presence there.

Merchandise

American fans in particular seem to find it strange that he doesn’t have a merchandise range. The only items available, for collectors, are:

  • DVDs – tour specials, Fackham Hall – see here
  • Blu-Ray – Fackham Hall – see here
  • Vinyl album – Netflix specials released in the US – see here

Billions of Views

He is the first British comedian to have had over 1 BILLION views, just on his main YouTube Channel (Jimmy Carr). This figure, when added to those of his other 3 channels, is twice that of the closest comic and leaves the rest of the field trailing behind – see here.

That post (here) also details how he is amongst the most watched Brit ever. (not including someone like Queen Elizabeth I or Jeremy Clarkson – I mean within comedy / entertainment). Just using YouTube etc. to tot up views for videos of his TV shows, Netflix specials etc. the LOWER end estimated number, for total views, is over 5 billion (Dec 2025).

If TV viewing figures could be added in (and also all the online video clips that private accounts have posted) it is quite likely to be double that.

In early January 2026 an online counter reported that his TikTok account has also had 19 billion hours of watch time.

TV Work

Alongside his stand up, he’s built up an amazing body of work on TV (as a host, co-host, presenter, writer, guest, panellist, competitor, judge, narrator and even a dash of acting) as well as a ton of appearances on Radio (as bot guest and show host) and Podcasts.

One of his earliest presenter roles was on E4’s Drunk Review (here) which was probably filmed in late 2000 / early 2001.

Since then, he’s gone on to become a hugely professional TV show host: with a name that draws in audiences. If you don’t know WHY he’s so in demand – see Professionalism (as a TV host) – here.

With hit show after hit show, mainly made in the UK (but also in the US & CAN) I’ve estimated 900+ hours of ORIGINAL TV time (not including repeats, best of shows or clips and compilations on YouTube) – see here for more information on his TV work.

Long running successes, like 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, are not only getting repeated on C4 (and in clip compilations, on YouTube) but are also sold around the world (most often to countries like Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but also across Europe).

Like many other comedians he started out as a warm up man and also contributed sketches and writing to shows that were the vehicles of other comics. I’ve already mentioned Ricky Gervais / Stephen Merchant but he also did show warm up work or supplied material to Lee Mack, Frank Skinner, Al Murray, Lily Savage etc.

The Pilot Category details something that doesn’t happen very often (or at least doesn’t get reported on) – a pilot show that is made and doesn’t get commissioned, as a series.

He is also a fearsome Roast battler and this overview post (here) and the Roasting tag gathers together his appearances in competitive battles, hosting of Roast Battle UK and participation in celebrity roasts.

The TV Shows listing covers his “greatest hits” (as a Host, co-host etc.) as well as a bulleted list of tons of other shows he’s contributed to (and is updated each time a new show launches). The shows that people, internationally, may most associate him with would be 8 Out of 10 Cats (2005-2020 see here), 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (2012 to present, see here) and Big Fat Quizzes (2004 to present, see here).

More recent hits include Jimmy Carr’s I Literally Just Told You (2021 to present, see here), Last One Laughing UK (2025 to present, see here), Jimmy Carr’s Am I The A**hole (2025 to present, see here) and The Big Pitch With Jimmy Carr (2025 to present, see here).

Again, all of these are expanded upon in the TV page.

The fact that recent show titles now incorporate his name (in the Title) is a clear indicator of exactly WHO the star of the show is.

He may have once had a tour promotional tag of “clean suit, dirty mouth” (Best of Ultimate Gold Greatest Hits) but he knows exactly how far to push it in front of a TV audience and is respected as a professional that can run a set.

He was the first UK comedian to have his own Netflix comedy special and his work with Netflix is listed here.

Acting

Over the past 20 years Jimmy has taken roles, of varying sizes, in a number of films – including his own movie (Fackham Hall).

He’s joked that his range is basically “posh sounding bloke in a suit” but, while he’s never going to be a thespian, he can give a decent performance.  

And, now that Fackham Hall is out, we’ve all seen that he can play a convincing Vicar. Albeit one that seems a little dyslexic…

The full list of his movie credits can be seen here.

Producer / Director

Jimmy has also dabbled in both Production and Direction roles on, for example, his DVD releases, Netflix Specials and his 2025 movie Fackham Hall.

Director role links are listed here and Production role links are here.

Radio / Podcasts

In the early years Jimmy found time to host some radio shows (sometimes as a stand in for other hosts, as holiday cover). The channel that he hosted the most shows on was XFM Radio (2001) and you can read more about that collaboration, with Iain Morris, here.

In 2020 although writing his book (Before and Laughter) and adjusting to becoming a first time father…boredom and the absence of a camera in his life drove him to produce an online daily quiz: The Little Tiny Quiz of Lockdown (here). Not quite a podcast – but another way of keeping his TV presenting pencil sharp.

To date Jimmy has appeared, as a guest, in over 250 Radio shows or Podcasts (that I’ve found so far – but haven’t necessarily blogged about yet). These vary from dropping into a radio show to promote something for 10 minutes to a 2-3 hour chat with someone like Joe Rogan.

He has become well known for his inspirational quotes – whether from a podcast or within a Heckle Amnesty video.

There is a Motivational category – but you can also filter on tags such as 2nd wave feminism, anxiety, eating disorder, mensch, Wise words-quotes etc.

Family life / personal

Jimmy has been with his Canadian girlfriend, Karoline Copping, since 2001.

He surprised the press in 2020 when he was photographed pushing a pram, in parks near his home in North London. He did eventually admit that they’d had a son and they’ve since added a daughter.

Stories that reference his family or pets (they have both dogs and cats) are under Personal (or dogs) and a Category of Out and About lists posts relating to him being papped, posing for selfies with fans, going to gigs (music or comedy), watching tennis, attending movie premieres – that kind of thing.

The posts for Instagram Series are collections of images, mostly from Instagram. Photos of him on stage, out and about and posing for selfies, photographers posting pro shoots etc. and are from ANY year.

With all of these types of posts I like to hold back a little, to try and let him have some sort of private life. For example – if people are posting text and images relating to him being on holiday somewhere I’ll wait until he’s back at work before adding to the intrusion.

Fitness, Hobbies and Interests

There are some list pages (more to come) detailing things he has recommended in podcasts / interviews:

As his dyslexia slows his reading pace down, he listens a lot to audio books and usually on double speed (he’s said that all of his audio books sound like Chipmunks are narrating). Spending a lot of time travelling (and sitting around in airports) means he gets through a lot of books and this explains the regular mentions of book titles that he recommends – in the Booklist.

He is a massive tennis fan and has played for years with mates like Jonathan Ross, sometimes partnered with pro-players for charities like Sport Relief (see here). He also attends Wimbledon (here) and the Australian Open (here) as much as possible and has been Andy Murray’s Chauffeur (in a Jaguar promo – here).

He’s a fan of sauna / cold plunge and seeks out a hotel / gym etc. wherever he is in the world (here).

As a man in his 50’s with small children he’s working on his flexibility through Yoga and Pilates (here) and Sir Mo Farah seems to be trying to get Jimmy more into running via the 5k challenge (here) and getting him on Run With Mo (here).

In a 2026 podcast (What’s My Age Again?) he found out that, while chronologically aged 53, he is biologically only 27. Read more here.

Jimmy is a huge music fan and has contributed to several Robbie Williams songs (here). He’s also mates with Brandon Flowers of The Killers and has been spotted sweeping the stage at their Glastonbury gig (here), filming from near the drum kit (here) and was even their support act at The Royal Albert Hall (here).

Another friend is Johnny McDaid (Snow Patrol) and this friendship resulted in Jimmy doing backing vocals on an Ed Sheeran track (here).

Along with Ed and Russell Crowe, Jimmy has invested in Muff Liquor (here) and talks about it in this video here. Being mates with Crowe has turned out to be slightly risky as Jimmy broke his wrist while quad biking on Russell’s farm (here).

Over the years he’s talked many times about his love of Movies and has attended a lot of London Premieres over the years. Sometimes he’s there as an invited guest (to aid with publicity) and sometimes to support friends who write screenplays or star in films themselves. See the Movie fan tag.

Author / Writer

The bulk of Jimmy’s writing output is through his live shows and ALL of his tour shows / DVDs and Netflix Specials are written by him (personally).

He’s known as being a generous collaborator, frequently helping other comics with developing a joke idea. An example of this would be Nikki Glaser (here) who made it known that Jimmy had given her a great joke for the Roast of Tom Brady. A video example of him workshopping material, with 2 other comics, is the We Might Be Drunk 2023 podcast (here).

Jimmy has written 2 books – The Naked Jape and Before and Laughter. Using the Book tag also lists books that he has contributed to – as well as books other people have written that feature stories about him.

Author-Songwriter is another way of looking at the book posts and also includes the songs that he is credited as contributing to (with people like his friend Robbie Williams).

He is also a VERY prolific writer on TV shows such as 8 Out of 10 Cats and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Posts on all of his credits can be seen under Writer, including details of other people’s shows (in the early 2000’s) that he submitted “additional material” for.

As already mentioned, he started writing on Substack (here) in October 2025.

Film Script Writer

2025 finally saw the announcement of another big writing project seeing the light of day: the cinema debut of the movie Fackham Hall.

Co-written with his younger brother, Patrick, and The Dawson Brothers (a 3 man writing team, that includes 2 brothers) it had been a concept that the Carr brothers had conceived during a 2020 lockdown period.

It had its New York Premiere on December 3rd 2025, the UK soon followed and other countries started to see it in theatres in early 2026. Meanwhile it’s streaming on VOD, out on DVD and Blu-ray and the Fackham Hall (main) summary post collates everything you would want to know about where / how to watch, viewing figures etc.

Charity

Perhaps because of his stage persona people don’t tend to think of Jimmy as someone that supports charitable causes. Over the years he’s given a lot of his time to a wide range of charities (and fundraisers) and these events are being listed under the category of Charity.

As his career gets ever more hectic (and he’s trying to fit in family time with his children) these appearances have recently been less frequent.

Charitable appearances are usually greeted, on social media, by comments of “it’s only for the publicity”. Except this comedian never mentions it and isn’t always mentioned in the publicity blurb as he sometimes just pitches up at the last minute. Helping out charities seems to be a case of “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”.

To group stories of him helping random people or friends (or just giving great advice) – there is also a growing mensch tag.

mensch: a person of integrity and honour, someone to be liked and admired. A good listener, a kind friend, someone showing understanding).

Motivational Speaker

Corporate gigs mostly tend to be someone doing a bit of stand up (and then leaving) or can involve sticking around to present awards. The third type (that not many comedians carry out) involves delivering a motivational speech and possibly also a Q&A.

Jimmy does a number of all 3 kinds of corporate / motivational events and all types can be seen under the Speaker-Corp filter.

As someone who used to be in Marketing and has built a massively successful International career (with a formidable social media presence) he is very much in demand at events such as Mad//Fest and Pendulum Summit.

Fact Checking

While digging through old research (to post on this blog) a fair number of wayward facts have come to light. Sometimes an innocent error is picked up and repeated by multiple other sites and sometimes clickbait articles are JUST on the right side of the law…but misleading enough to nudge a story a certain direction. Omission of detail can often generate more controversy than what had actually been said or done.

October 2025 saw the release of a Wikipedia type version of Grok (Grokipedia) and stories relating to issues in that text are here.

The Fact Checking category covers these stories and is a mixture of a Nonsensical AI tag (examples of where Artificial Intelligence makes a mistake) and also Factual Inaccuracy (where rumour meets myth and misinformation).

2025 – An Exceptional Year

2025 has been a fantastic year for Jimmy, whichever way you look at it. His travels and achievements are summed up in his End of Year Report Card – here.

Last updated: 2026-03-22