Jimmy Carr is a British comedian.
After taking a first in Social and Political Sciences
at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Carr got
a job with the Oil company Shell. Soon afterwards,
he quit in order to begin a career in stand up. Carr
eventually gained recognition and was recruited by
Channel 4 to host the game shows such as Distraction
and Your Face or Mine? In 2004 he released his first
stand up DVD entitled simply "Jimmy Carr Live".
In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of
the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.
His manner of smiling broadly, yet slightly unconvincingly,
is similar to the BBC weather presenter Helen Willetts.
In 2004, it was announced he would host a US version
of Distraction for Comedy Central.
He was a guest presenter for one episode of Have
I Got News For You and has appeared on Never Mind The
Buzzcocks twice, and Stephen Fry's QI. He has also
presented many 100's programmes for Channel 4: 100
Worst Pop Records, 100 Worst Britons and 100 Scary
Moments. He is also a regular guest and interviewer
on Loose Ends (BBC Radio 4) and The Fred McCauley Show
(BBC Radio Scotland). Jimmy is a prolific writer as
well as performer, with writing credits including Bo'
Selecta! (C4) & Meet Ricky Gervais (C4) as well
as writing for Lily Savage and Frank Skinner.
During his guest appearance on the BBC motoring show
Top Gear, he set a new celebrity test track lap record
on the 'Star in a Reasonably Priced Car' segment. Driving
the show's Suzuki Liana, he knocked Simon Cowell off
the top spot.
2004 was a successful year for Jimmy's live work.
In 2003 he sold out an entire month's performances
of his Edinburgh Festival show Charm Offensive by the
second day of the festival, and received 5 reviews
from four major newspapers. In 2004 he performed sold
out solo shows at Dublin's Vicar Street, & the
Leicester Comedy Festival, can also soon be seen at
the Glasgow Festival, Kilkenny Festival and the Galway
Festival along with appearances at The Bloomsbury Theatre
where he filmed his first live DVD.
In 2005 he became the presenter of a new Channel
4 show called The Friday Night Project, and a quiz
show by the name of 8 Out of 10 Cats. |
