- Born
- Height1.80 m
- Jimmy Carr is an award-winning comedian, writer and television host.
Among the most-respected and best-loved comedians working in Britain today, Jimmy is one of the biggest selling live acts in UK comedy, consistently performing to sell-out crowds across the country and around the world.
His television credits include hosting some of the UK's longest running panel shows such as 8 Out Of 10 Cats, 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Channel 4's Big Fat Quiz Of The Year and Big Fat Quiz Of Everything. Jimmy also hosts Roast Battle on Comedy Central in the UK and The Fix which airs on Netflix.
Jimmy has also regularly appeared on shows such as QI and A League Of Their Own, was one of the stars of Channel 4's 10 O'Clock Live and has been a guest on chat shows such as The Jonathan Ross Show, Graham Norton and Alan Carr: Chatty Man.
Jimmy has eight live DVD releases to his name: Live, Stand Up, Comedian, In Concert, Telling Jokes, Making People Laugh, Being Funny, Laughing & Joking and Funny Business. He has sold over 1.2 million copies to date.
In 2015 Jimmy signed a stand-up special deal with US streaming behemoth Netflix, the first UK comedian to do so. Jimmy's 4 Netflix specials are Funny Business (March 2016) The Best Of, Ultimate, Gold, Greatest Hits (March 12th 2019) His Dark Material (25 December 2021) and Natural Born Killer (April 15th 2024).- IMDb mini biography by: Charles Johnson
- Very dark humour
- One-line jokes
- Interactions with the audience
- High-pitched laugh with regular intervals.
- Deadpan delivery
- His partner since 2001 has been the Canadian-born editor Karoline Copping, with whom he has a son.
- Obtained the nickname 'Jimmy Carr-nage' after his 'Celebrity In A Reasonably Priced Car' lap on Top Gear, from driving extremely recklessly. Nevertheless, as of 2005, he remains the fastest male 'star in a reasonably -priced car' .... (yachtswoman Ellen Macarthur is the fastest overall as at January 2006)
- In 2012 he was described as "morally wrong" by British Prime Minister David Cameron for investing millions of pounds in the K2 Tax scheme. Although the scheme was not said to be illegal, therefore tax avoidance and not tax evasion, he subsequently apologised.
- Graduated from Cambridge University with a 2:1 in political science. Attended Dulwich College, London, England.
- Once worked in marketing for Shell Oil.
- I do realize that when I laugh, it sounds like a seal is being molested.
- As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.
- I appreciate as a comedian, people will expect me to 'make light' of this situation, but I'm not going to in this statement. As this is obviously a serious matter. I met with a financial advisor and he said to me 'Do you want to pay less tax? It's totally legal'. I said 'Yes'." I now realise I've made a terrible error of judgement. Although I've been advised the K2 Tax scheme is entirely legal, and has been fully disclosed to HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs). I'm no longer involved in it and will in future conduct my financial affairs much more responsibly. Apologies to everyone.
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