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Jimmy Carr: Funny Business

  • TV Special
  • 2016
  • TV-MA
  • 1h 2m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
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Jimmy Carr in Jimmy Carr: Funny Business (2016)
Stand-UpComedy

A man, with an incredibly stupid laugh, tells jokes to an audience.A man, with an incredibly stupid laugh, tells jokes to an audience.A man, with an incredibly stupid laugh, tells jokes to an audience.

  • Director
    • Sam Wrench
  • Writer
    • Jimmy Carr
  • Star
    • Jimmy Carr
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  • IMDb RATING
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    5.1K
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    • Director
      • Sam Wrench
    • Writer
      • Jimmy Carr
    • Star
      • Jimmy Carr
    • 12User reviews
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    3paul_m_haakonsen

    You probably had to be there to enjoy it...

    I am not overly familiar with comedian Jimmy Carr, but I do know of him. When I stumbled upon this 2016 stand-up comedy special on Netflix in 2022, of course I opted to watch it.

    Now, ironically then the show is titled "Jimmy Carr: Funny Business", however I have to say that the funny business is up for interpretation. Now, I get that everyone have a different sense of comedy, and I have to say that this 2016 special sort of fell short of providing me with much of laughter or entertainment.

    There was no red thread throughout the course of the show, as Jimmy Carr was essentially just randomly blasting off jokes left and right, switching theme every other second. That was a little bit annoying for me, because I felt like I would get equally much out of just type in "jokes" on Google.

    Something that astounded me in "Jimmy Carr: Funny Business" was the way that comedian Jimmy Carr is lashing out at the audience without any sense of filter or sense of when to stop. It was toe-curling at times to watch him dish out personal attacks against members of the audience.

    Sure, a good amount of the jokes were actually funny, but without a proper red thread to guide the show, then it was essentially just 62 minutes of random jokes pulled from a hat, laced with some behavior that certainly felt like overstepping a line to me.

    After having seen "Jimmy Carr: Funny Business", then I am not really feeling prompted to rush out to get to watch more of Jimmy Carr's material.

    My rating of "Jimmy Carr: Funny Business" lands on a three out of ten stars.
    ersbel

    Maybe

    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.
    8lukelovesfootie

    Hilarious

    Properly laugh out loud funny, Jimmy's quick wit ruthlessly ruins members of the audience.
    5juvest

    This is trash

    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.
    7MUFCOK

    A fun way to pass 60 minutes

    My early memories of Jimmy Carr are that he was consistently offensive and crude, often uncomfortably so. While his latest stand up is both of these, I don't feel he is as edgy as he used to be. Don't get me wrong, he is much more offensive than your average stand-up comedian I just feel he has curbed it slightly.

    He has a knack of dividing audiences; he is very much a love him or hate him kind of comedian. His approach to jokes is to appear very sensitive and then follow it up with a crude punchline. He is consistently good at this, making the build up to each joke tense, as you know he is about to produce something that will make you laugh but at the same time make you cringe!

    Jimmy Carr has a history of performing to small audiences, despite being a big enough name to sell out arenas, he chooses to do smaller, intimate gigs to interact with the audience on a more personal level. Funny Business is no different; he often uses the audience, involving them in jokes and embarrassing them. He has a section where he shares jokes with the crowd which the audience have sent in themselves and also invites the crowd to openly heckle him, this is easily one of the funniest parts of the show.

    If you like previous Jimmy Carr stand ups, you will enjoy this – there is no question about that. It's shorter than most gigs with a run time of around 60 minutes, I would have liked for it to be a little longer as it really did fly by. Some of his jokes don't quite hit the mark for me, but when they do, they do so really well. He's crude, edgy and offensive, if you're easily offended, don't bother watching this. Thankfully, I'm not, so for me it was a solid show – not his best, yet still comfortably above average.

    7/10

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      Jimmy Carr's first comedy special to be released on Netflix
    • Connections
      Referenced in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Clive Owen/Nia Vardalos/Jimmy Carr (2016)

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    • Release date
      • March 18, 2016 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • official
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 吉米.卡爾:胡搞瞎搞
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      • Fulwell 73
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      • 1h 2m(62 min)
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      • 16:9 HD

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