James Anthony Patrick Carr (born 15 September 1972) is a British-Irish comedian, presenter, writer and actor.[1] He is known for his rapid-fire deadpan delivery of one-liners which have been known to offend some people.[2] He began his comedy career in 1997, and he has regularly appeared on television as the host of Channel 4 panel shows such as 8 Out of 10 Cats, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.
Early life and education
James Anthony Patrick Carr was born on 15 September 1972,[3] in Hounslow, London,[4][5][6] the second of three sons[7] born to Irish parents Nora Mary (née Lawlor; 19 September 1943 – 7 September 2001)[8][9] and Patrick James "Jim" Carr (born 1945), an accountant who became the treasurer for computer company Unisys. His parents were married in 1970 and separated in 1994, never divorcing.[7][10]
In 2001, Carr's mother, Nora Mary, died of pancreatitis, aged 57. Following her death, Carr's relationship with his father became "severely strained". In 2004, his father was arrested and accused of harassing Carr and his brother Colin, but was cleared and won an apology from the Metropolitan Police.[15] In 2021, Carr said he had not spoken to his father since 2000 and had not seen him in person, with the exception of an autograph signing after a gig in 2015, where they saw each other but did not speak.[16]
Carr has hosted Channel 4 game shows Distraction and Your Face or Mine?. He presented the 100s series of programmes for Channel 4: 100 Worst Pop Records, 100 Worst Britons, 100 Greatest Cartoon Characters, 100 People Who Look Most Like Jimmy Carr (a spoof) and 100 Scary Moments.
In April 2010, Carr hosted the first British version of a comedy roast show, Channel 4's A Comedy Roast. On 6 May 2010, he was a co-host of Channel 4's Alternative Election Night, with David Mitchell, Lauren Laverne and Charlie Brooker. He joined the three presenters again for 10 O'Clock Live, a Channel 4 comedy current-affairs show, which started airing in January 2011.[21][22]
Carr contributed sketches to Channel 4 topical comedy TV programme The 11 O'Clock Show and has appeared on panel shows A League of Their Own and QI. During a guest appearance on the BBC motoring show Top Gear, Carr set a new celebrity test track lap record on the 'Star in a Reasonably Priced Car' segment.[24] He was described as "the worst driver we've ever had" and "the luckiest man alive" by Top Gear's test driver the Stig.[25]
Carr was a guest presenter for one edition of Have I Got News for You;[29] in 2007 he joined Ian Hislop's team in the edition of the show chaired by Ann Widdecombe, with whom he "flirted" outrageously. Later in the episode, Widdecombe stated, "I don't think I shall return to this programme."[30]
Radio
In January 2006, Carr made a joke on Radio 4's Loose Ends, the punchline of which implied that Gypsy women smelled.[31] The BBC issued an apology, but Carr refused to apologise and continued to use the joke. He appeared in two episodes of the radio series of Flight of the Conchords in 2005.[32]
Carr has appeared on BBC Radio 4's Museum of Curiosity a total of seven times since 2011. He was the Museum Curator (in his five appearances in 2012) and a guest on the 2018 Annual Stock Take Christmas special, alongside Lee Mack, Jo Brand and Sally Philips.[33]
Carr performs stand-up tours continuously over most of the course of the year, originally taking only five weeks off between them. During his Terribly Funny Tour (which began pre COVID lockdown and ended April 2024) he wrote his next tour by trying out new material in every gig.[37] As a result of this Jimmy Carr Laughs Funny[38] started 17 April 2024.
His first five minutes of stand up (unpaid) was at an Islington pub, the Tut 'n' Shive, in Dec 1999.[39] From 2000 to 2003, he started appearing regularly, around London, at Up The Creek,[40] The Banana Cabaret[41] and The Bearcat Comedy Club.[42]
In 2004, he threatened to sue Jim Davidson for using a joke that Carr considered his own.[45] The matter was dropped when it became apparent that the joke in question was an old one used for decades by many different comedians. He toured the country with his show A Public Display of Affection, starting on 9 April 2005 at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury and ending on 14 January 2006 at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End. He also appeared at the EICC during the Edinburgh Festival in August 2005 with his Off The Telly show.
In August 2006, he commenced the tour Gag Reflex, for which he won the 2006 British Comedy Award for "Best Live Stand-Up". He released his third DVD, Jimmy Carr: Comedian, in November 2007. In 2003, he was listed in the Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. In 2007, a poll on the Channel 4 website for 100 Greatest Stand-Ups, Jimmy Carr was 12th. A national tour commenced in autumn 2007 named Repeat Offender, beginning at the Edinburgh Festival.
On 3 February 2007, Carr's performance in front of 50 people in London was broadcast simultaneously on the virtual platform Second Life.[46]
His Rapier Wit tour opened on 20 August 2009 eight shows at the Edinburgh Festival before touring the UK. He released a DVD entitled Jimmy Carr: Telling Jokes on 2 November 2009.[47] Also on 5 and 6 July 2009, Carr was the warm up act for Las Vegas band the Killers at their DVD record gigs (Live from the Royal Albert Hall).[48]
In October 2009, Carr received criticism from Sunday tabloid newspapers for a joke he made about British soldiers who had lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying the UK would have a strong team in the London 2012 Paralympic Games.[49] Carr defended his own joke as "totally acceptable" in an interview with The Guardian.[50] He had met with staff and patients at the rehabilitation centre, Headley Court, in March 2009.[51]
Carr's sixth Live DVD, Jimmy Carr: Making People Laugh, was released on 8 November 2010.[52] Carr's 2010–11 tour, entitled Laughter Therapy, started with a run at the Edinburgh Festival before touring the UK.[53]
Carr was criticised in November 2011 for a joke about the Variety Club's Sunshine coaches, which offer holidays for children with Down syndrome. The charity and Down Syndrome Education International condemned the joke. Carr defended himself by saying nothing should be off limits.[54]
A Guardian profile in 2012 said: "In terms of reach and earning power... one of the nation's most popular stand-up comedians... in his ability to pull in crowds which generate millions in tour and DVD sales..." and as "the undisputed king of deadpan one-liners...".[55]
Carr released the Jimmy Carr: Laughing and Joking DVD on 18 November 2013.[56]
In June 2019, Carr was criticised for the content of his touring show Terribly Funny. Among the controversial jokes were jokes about dwarves, fat women and female genital mutilation.[57] Carr was also criticised by charity Little People UK (co-founded by actor Warwick Davis), accusing him of prejudice for an "offensive" abortion joke he made about people with dwarfism.[58][59]
On 17 April 2024, the Netflix recording of Carr's Terribly Funny 2.0 tour was released as Natural Born Killer. The one hour special attained a Top 10 spot in 29 countries.[60] In the week 15-21 April 2024 Netflix listed the show as being 8th in the global Top 10 (in the category TV, English) with 2.3m viewing hours.[61][62]
Edinburgh
The Edinburgh Festival / Fringe[63] is an annual arts festival, in Scotland, that has been a showcase for comedians since at least the 1970s. Carr has often said how important the Fringe is to anyone that wants to get into comedy and that he is “…a performer at night but during the day I’m a punter and have conversations with people about what show they liked and what they didn’t”.[64]
Carr has said that he first went up to Edinburgh around 2000 to “see what it was about”. Although he would eventually go on to return each year as a paid stand-up comic, he initially had to resort to trying to save money by sleeping in his car (a Rover 75) or on the floor of somewhere that other comedians had rented.[64]
The August 2001 two-week stint, with Rubbernecker, was Carr’s first Fringe appearance, with his name in the official programme and his first mention on the Comedy site, Chortle.[65][66]
In 2002, although this was Carr’s second entry (in one of the festival’s programmes) this was his first solo show: Bare Faced Ambition. This was the year that he received a nomination for what was then known as the Perrier Award.
The poster and programme billed him as “England’s answer to Emo Philips”[67][68] and he performed in the Dining Room of the Gilded Balloon from 2 to 26 August. Records are not kept of Fringe show attendances but the venue’s room sizes indicate that there would have been less than 50 people at each show.
By the time of 2003’s Festival,[69] the now 30-year-old Carr had built a larger fan base through touring, several appearances at Montreal’s Just For Laughs and numerous TV appearances (including co-hosting Your Face Or Mine). This enabled him to move his shows to the larger venue of the Pleasance Courtyard, but the Festival’s rules (on TV appearances) meant that he was judged to now be a “star” and therefore couldn’t be nominated for the 2003 Perrier Award.[70]
He performed for 25 nights between 30 July and 25 August 2003.[69] On August 21 and 22nd, he participated in Comedy Gala 2003 in aid of Waverley Care.[69]
Edinburgh 2004[71] followed on from another hit TV show (Distraction); this tour show was called Public Display of Affection. This meant another move up (in venue size) with six shows at the EICC (which had a 1,200-seat capacity – at that time).[72]
2005 was Carr’s fifth Fringe and he again arrived with all new material. This show was called Off The Telly and, returning to the EICC, he performed eight shows.[73]
Material for the new tour, named Gag Reflex, had been tried out at a WIP (Work in progress) gig at the Hen and Chickens on August 5, 2006. Trial of the new material continued in Edinburgh across six nights, from August 17, at the EICC.[74]
Carr only managed to fit in a brief appearance at the 2007 Fringe on August 21.[75] Held at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre, it was a regular Fringe fund raiser, headed by Alan Carr, for Waverley Care. He was still writing material for his planned Repeat Offender tour, as evidenced by him using a clipboard on stage.[76]
Previously, The Guardian had been reasonably positive in relation to reviews of comedians headlining at the Fringe,; however, articles from 2007 saw the paper declare that that “household names were drowning out more pioneering art”.[77][78]
The 2008 Edinburgh programme[79] never listed dates or a venue for Carr’s shows this year; this was possibly because his attendance was confirmed after printing. His presence (and the unveiling of his Joke Technician tour) was, however, mentioned in the Independent[80] and also Chortle.[81]
Edinburgh 2009[82] sees Carr return for what is billed as his “eighth solo show” – thereby confirming his seventh attendance in 2008. He returned to the EICC with his new show, Rapier Wit, for eight nights spanning 20 to 30 August.
Edinburgh 2010[84] sees Carr debut his new show, Laughter Therapy, a few days after the end of his Rapier Wit tour. He was back, once again, at the EICC for eight nights.[85]
Although he performed a number of gigs in Scotland, during 2011, Carr never made it to that year’s Festival. At Edinburgh 2012, he was back to perform his new show, Gagging Order, with six nights at the EICC.[64][86]
2014 saw Carr return for his 11th solo Edinburgh show,[87] called Funny Business. Based once again at the EICC he played four nights[88] in what would appear to be his last Fringe appearance (with a comedy show).
After a 10 year absence Carr returned for his 12th solo show (Laughs Funny), in August 2024. He described the Festival as being "where it all began" [91] and performed 5 shows, across 3 nights, at the Edinburgh Playhouse.
Canada stand-up
Since 1983 the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival (also known as Juste pour rire and often referred to by the abbreviated JFL[92]) has been hosted in Montreal, Canada (for two weeks in July) and was the world's largest International Comedy Festival[93]. Carr has always been appreciative of this Festival's importance and has said that, whilst there, he "watches two or three shows a day"[94] and that "Just For Laughs is like summer camp for comics. It’s a business convention, we play around".[95]
Carr's second appearance was 2003[98] and he was again a part of Britcom[99] (a showcase for British talent) although some reports again erroneously listed him as being in the Irish production, O'Comics[100]. He briefly featured in Jay Leno's Tonight Show, 18 July 2003, by providing a video-link report on what was happening at Just For Laughs.[99]
He was a judge on the 2006 A Comedy Showdown, alongside Andy Kindler and Dom Irerra. Inspired by 8 Mile style rap battles the competition had pairs of comedians performing 3-minute sets, in elimination rounds. The two finalists were British comics Russell Howard and Andy Parsons, with the latter awarded the win.[103]
At the 2007 Just For Laughs (Carr's fourth[104]) he was one of ten comedians that performed one person shows, across three venues, in the Flying Solo Series.[105] He also appeared on the Howie Mandel Gala,[106] at Toronto's Massey Hall.
The 2009 Festival (Carr's fifth) saw him return as a part of Britcom[107] where, after John Cleese had been taken ill, Lewis Black had to be drafted in as a last-minute stand in (as the host). 24 and 26 July 2009 Carr was the opening support act for Louis CK at Metropolis[108] and appeared on The Nasty Show[109] (19 July) at Club Soda.
For his sixth Just For Laughs in 2010 Carr once again featured in Britcom[110] and travelled to Toronto's Massey Hall (10 July 2010) to share a stage with the evening's host, Louis CK, in a show that also featured Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan.[111] 17 July 2010 he was at Club Soda for an appearance on The Nasty Show.[112]
In 2011 Carr scheduled his Laughter Therapy tour to include 9 nights at Montreal's Le Gesu[113] (starting from 22 July 2011), allowing him to participate in his seventh Just For Laughs. Russell Peters hosted a gala called "Best Night Ever" (two shows a night, 27-28 July, at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier) and chose Carr as one of the comedians he wanted on his show.[114]
2012 saw Carr return for his eighth Just For Laughs. This year was the festival’s 30th Anniversary and he took the role of host at Britcom.[115]
Throughout 2016 Carr was still on his Funny Business tour and, from 25 July, he slotted in 5 nights at Le Gesu[122] as a part of his twelfth Just For Laughs. His appearance on The Nasty Show (20 July 2016) was overshadowed by fellow comic, Mike Ward, being issued a fine (from the Human Rights Tribunal of Quebec) a few hours before the show.[123]
2017 (at his thirteenth Just For Laughs) Carr participated (20 July) in a rowdy night of The Nasty Show at Metropolis.[124]
Bumping Mics (Jeff Ross and Dave Attell) ran from 26-28 July 2017 at L'Astral[125] and Carr was one of the comedians that was invited to join them on stage. Attell is someone that Carr has long admired and has described him as "the most influential comic of his generation".[126]
28 July 2017 was the Just For Laughs Awards and Carr was there as a presenter.[127]Jim Carrey was awarded a special "homegrown" honour and Seann Walsh later spoke about how, when Carr introduced him to Carrey (who he referred to as "the reason he did comedy") he was too star struck to ask anyone to take their picture.[128]Jeff Ross posted an informal group shot that featured Carrey and Carr.[129]
Carr's fourteenth Just For Laughs appearance was in 2018 and, as a stop on his Best of Ultimate Gold Greatest Hits tour, he returned to Le Gesu for 9 nights (21-29 July).[130] While in Montreal he also guested as a judge on the Kill Tony podcast show,[131] which features randomly chosen amateur comics who perform a set and then receive feedback. Carr had appeared on the show twice before[132] but at its original venue, in Los Angeles.
Despite starting his Terribly Funny tour in March 2019 Carr's fifteenth Just For Laughs didn't have any shows solely dedicated to his new tour. His first performance was on The Nasty Show (17 July 2019).[133]
In The Roastmaster Invitational (24-27 July at Club Soda)[134] Carr progressed through the heats to be in the final (which was won by Canadian K. Trevor Wilson). These two comics also both appeared in the line-up of A Very Mark Forward show on 25 July 2019, at The Diving Bell.[135]
The 2019 Brit(ish) show was hosted by Carr, with both nights (26-27 July) held at M Telus.[136] The annual Just For Laughs awards show is always held in the afternoon (so as to not interfere with the evening comedy entertainment) and 26 July 2019 Jim Jefferies was named Stand Up of the Year. His award was presented to him by Carr.[137]
2020 saw the Just For Laughs organisers trying to rescue the festival from pandemic lockdowns and bans on travel. Instead of the usual dates in July they had to settle for running a virtual JFL on 9-10 October 2020.[138] The public could watch the Zoom sessions for free but they were only available for 24 hours, before removal. On 10 October Carr (for his sixteenth involvement in Just For Laughs) joined Noel Fielding for a Conversation With Funny People - with an invitation to give a donation to Montreal's Hope & Cope Cancer charity.[139]
2022 was Carr's 17th Just For Laughs, which ran 13-31 July. Touring his Terribly Funny 2.0 show Carr performed two gigs at Place des Arts, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, on 27 July.[140]
In September and October 2024, Carr teamed up with Australian comedian Jim Jefferies for a number of gigs, slotted between dates for Jefferies's own tour (the Give 'em what they want tour [141]), in Canada. Their joint shows were billed as The Charm Offensive Tour, re-purposing a tour name that Carr had originally used in 2003.[142][143]
Canadian TV
18 July 2010 Theatre Saint-Denis was the venue for an All Star Gala, filmed for TV.[144] Headlined by American comic John Pinette it was also, for Carr, an early stage appearance with Jeff Ross (he would go on to work with Ross on various Roast Battle shows[145], live roast gigs and The Roast of Rob Lowe[146]).
2013, saw Carr involved in TV records of two shows - Just For Laughs: All Access[150] (various comedians were filmed for 13 hours of televised stand up[151]) and The Montreal Experience (a 60 minute special about what comedians like about Montreal).[152]
2015 Carr competed in (and won) the Jeff Ross Roast Invitational at L'Astral. The heats were across 4 nights (July 21-25) and were filmed and broadcast by Comedy Central.[145]
2016, as returning champion, Carr went into The Jeff Ross Roast Invitational as favourite and Comedy Central again filmed and broadcast the competition. In the final the judges said "Carr's joke were more consistently funny" but gave the win to Earl Skakel.[156]
In 2017 the city of Montreal was celebrating its 375th birthday and a comedy Intervention Gala was held 31 July (at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier). Filmed by CBC it was broadcast, December 2017, as Montreal: An Intervention (Because We Love You).[157]
25 July 2019 Carr made his fourth appearance at the charity event for Montreal's Hope & Cope's Cancer Wellness Centre,[159] having previously appeared in 2012[159], 2015[160] and 2017[161].
During the 2019 Just For Laughs ex basketball player, Blake Griffin, hosted his 3rd comedy.byBlake show, gathering comedian's (which this year included Carr, Neal Brennan and Jeff Ross) to each perform a 10 minute set, in aid of his Team Griffin Foundation.[162]
On 29 July 2022 Carr hosted a Club Soda line up of Iliza Shlesinger, Tommy Tiernan, Neal Brennan and Marc Maron (billed as Jimmy Carr & Friends) in aid of Comedy Gives Back, a charity supporting comedians with health, mental health or crisis relief needs.[163]
America
In the final months of his Terribly Funny 2.0 tour, Carr made several trips to the USA.[164] Each trip consisted of around a week, criss-crossing the country. 2023 saw these mini tours in October, November[165] and December. He also toured in March and April of 2024; this last trip ended up consisting of new material, under the tour name Laughs Funny.
His first venture into making TV shows in the US was The Strategic Humour Initiative (hosted by Sir David Frost) back in 2003. It was a joint UK / USA / Canada production and Carr was chosen to be the UK comedian. Only 1 episode was made.[179]
2005 saw Carr hosting 12 episodes[180] of the American version of the shock gameshow Distraction (which he had hosted in the UK). A second US series (14 episodes[181]) was commissioned in 2006.[182]
Netflix produced 10 episodes of The Fix in 2018, hosted by Carr. It was an attempt to export the UK panel show format to America and, although still available on Netflix,[185] no further episodes have been made.
Carr was the first British comedian[186] to get a Netflix stand up special, with his show Funny Business[187] (March 2016).
American stand-up
Because of the frequency of his trips and his workaholic nature,[188] Carr collaborates with American comedians in various ways. Neal Brennan credits him with the idea for his Blocks podcast and Jeffery Ross frequently invites him to be part of his Roast events (the most famous of which is probably The Roast of Rob Lowe[146]). Across two nights of the 2022 Netflix is a Joke Festival[189] Carr was a support act for Dave Chappelle at the Hollywood Bowl (April 30[190] and May 3,[191] the show where Chappelle was attacked on stage).
As a member of the Netflix comedy roster, he was also invited to a celebratory brunch at the home of Netflix co-CEO, Ted Sanderos.[194]
The Comedy Store opened in Los Angeles in 1972 and has been a popular venue for stand-up comedians ever since.[195] Carr has been performing there for many years and is one of a small number of British comedians that are listed as alumni[196] and, in 2018, was given the honour of having his name painted on one of the club's walls.[197]
Since 2015, Carr has made several appearances on the US live comedy show Kill Tony.[132]
2024 once again saw Netflix host Netflix is a Joke Fest, in Los Angeles (May 2-12). Carr posted (on X) that he had performed 2 gigs in the UK on May 3[198] and then performed at the Outside Joke event, at the Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles on May 4.[199]
In 2006, the book The Naked Jape: Uncovering the Hidden World of Jokes, on the history and theory of joke-telling, by Carr and Lucy Greeves, was published by Penguin.[206]
Before & Laughter, a memoir and self-help book, was published by Quercus in December 2021.[207]
Controversies
2011 amputee joke
At the Manchester Apollo in 2011, Carr joked that war injuries had a positive side. "You can say what you like about these servicemen amputees from Iraq and Afghanistan," he said, "but we're going to have a fucking good Paralympics team in 2012."
The Prime Minister's office condemned the joke. Newspapers and radio stations phoned the mothers of soldiers maimed in battle, recited the joke, then reported their outraged reactions. Carr contended that it was a good joke.[208]
2012 tax avoidance
In June 2012, Carr's involvement in an alleged K2tax avoidance scheme came to light after an investigation by The Times.[209] The scheme is understood to involve UK earners "quitting" their job and signing new employment contracts with offshore shell companies based in the low-tax jurisdiction of Jersey. Prime Minister David Cameron said: "People work hard, they pay their taxes, they save up to go to one of his shows. They buy the tickets. He is taking the money from those tickets and he, as far as I can see, is putting all of that into some very dodgy tax-avoiding schemes."[210] Carr subsequently pulled out of the scheme, apologising for "a terrible error of judgement".[211]
Viewing figures of the episode of his topical show 8 out of 10 Cats, recorded on the day of his apology and broadcast the following day, almost doubled compared with the previous week.[212] Earlier in 2012, during the second series of Channel 4's satirical news programme 10 O'Clock Live, Carr had lampooned people who avoid paying their taxes.[211] A sketch from the show, in which he poked fun at the 1% tax rate of Barclays Bank and described tax lawyers as being "aggressive" and "amoral", was regarded as having "come back to haunt him".[211]
In February 2018, Carr appeared on Room 101, where he talked about the controversy. Though he admitted that what he did was wrong, he said there was some level of hypocrisy in the comments that Cameron had made about him in 2012, stating that members of Cameron's family and Queen Elizabeth II had subsequently been mentioned in the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers tax evasion scandals. Carr said that the law should become clearer by eliminating any loopholes, instead of leaving it up to individuals to decide what is morally right.[213] Carr continues to reference the scandal in his performances and public appearances.[214]
2021 Holocaust joke
In a stand-up comedy performance released as a Christmas 2021 Netflix special titled His Dark Material, Carr joked:
"When people talk about the Holocaust, they talk about the tragedy and horror of 6 million Jewish lives being lost to the Nazi war machine. But they never mention the thousands of Gypsies that were killed by the Nazis. No one ever wants to talk about that, because no one ever wants to talk about the positives."
During the show, Carr defended his joke saying that it had the educational value of raising awareness about groups who suffered genocide in the Holocaust.[215] The show had been released in December 2021 without comment on the joke but received widespread attention the following February after a clip was posted and shared online. He was condemned by the Auschwitz Memorial, Hope not Hate[216] and The Traveller Movement, who called anti-Romani prejudice the "last acceptable form of racism" in the UK.[217] He also faced criticism from British politicians, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary.[218][219] The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust said they were "absolutely appalled" and "horrified", and described Carr's joke as "abhorrent".[220][221][215] Despite the criticism, Carr stood by the joke.[218]
Personal life
In the late 1990s, when he was 26 years old, Carr had what he calls "an early midlife crisis" during which he lost his Catholic faith.[222] He has since made comments critical of organised religion. In 2015, he said: "As for being a Christian, yes, it seems ridiculous now, but I genuinely believed there was a big man in the sky who could grant wishes. Writers like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins helped change my view, but I don't go on stage banging on about being an atheist... I'm just a guy who tells jokes."[223] He has stated that he underwent a lot of psychotherapy (specifically neuro-linguistic programming) at the time of his crisis in order to help him cope with his loss of faith, and that he is qualified as a therapist.[224]
Carr has dual British and Irish citizenship, travels on an Irish passport, has spoken of his pride in having Irish ancestry, and was presented in 2013 with a certificate of Irish heritage in his parents' home city of Limerick by the city's mayor.[225]
^Moss, Stephen. "Jimmy Carr: 'I thought my Paralympics joke was totally acceptable'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016. Pretty much standard-issue Jimmy Carr: tasteless, offensive, short, targeting disability – one of his key subjects alongside rape, paedophilia, prostitutes, homosexuality, Aids, the physical and sexual abuse of pets, sex of all kinds (but especially anal), penises, breasts, vaginas ... excrement, the awfulness of the Welsh, the even greater awfulness of the Scots, fat women, fat children, fat pets, fat Scots, and people (fatness optional) with ginger hair.
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