Jimmy Carr: Funny Business

If you get easily offended, you won't like this show. If you sometimes get offended, you won't like this show. If you never get offended, you'll absolutely love this show.

Jimmy Carr is a notorious divider of audiences. With his jokes he severely pushes the limits of ethics and morality, and makes jokes of subjects that most other comedians (even in today's society) wouldn't even touch with an iron rod. And for the most parts of the show this approach works brilliantly.

I'm not generally a big fan of stand up comedians that uses explicit sexual contents as a basis of their stand up routine. Mostly because I find that jokes on the subject usually's delivered in a very crude and unsophisticated manner. But Jimmy Carr manages to turn a simple sex joke that normally would be used for shocking effect and cheap laughs into comedy art. His confidence and timing is just that good.

In this routine he involves the audience quite a bit via his amazing observational comedy, which he is very well known for in Britain. He asks audience members a bunch of mundane questions and perceives to destroy them after receiving their answers. Perhaps not very original, but nevertheless very amusing. He also does a bit where he includes the audience in a way that I for one haven't seen before. I won't reveal the gimmick in this review, other than to say it worked fantastically and made me laugh out loud.

Personally I've never much enjoyed heckling in stand up routines, and Jimmy has quite a big segment in the show devoted to it. This was the only part of the show that really didn't work for me. Not because of Jimmy's abilities to cope with the material being thrown at him, but rather that people in the audience only shouted stuff where the only correct response would be: "something, something 'Your mom!'". And for the most parts that was what his response was.

All in all a very entertaining show, good for loads of laughs. I think I can say with a fair amount of certainty: You'll either love or hate this show. I, for one, loved it.

Properly laugh out loud funny, Jimmy's quick wit ruthlessly ruins members of the audience.

Maybe Carr is funny when you are in a bar and your date is one hour late. But on NetFlix he is another bore in a long list. This one is a bore with a British accent.

This is excruciating. I couldn't manage it all the way through. It seems to have been cobbled together from jokes that have been doing the rounds for years. It's lazy comedy. If you have been living in a bunker underground for the past few decades it might be amusing, but then again, so might a urethroscopy.

He got heckled. His response was a "your mum" joke.

This was a schoolboy making jokes kind of trash. Not a supposedly professional comedian. The other part is that his entire performance seemed forced, his laugh was terrible and he specifically mentioned it - was it supposed to be some sort of joke? And 70% of the jokes were sex jokes, which is where we get back to the schoolboy. Utterly boring.

Dave Chappelle, Jim Jeffries, there are infinitely better Netflix comedy specials out there.