Jimmy Carr

Nadine Dorries slams 'abhorrent' Jimmy Carr; new laws will ban offensive comedy

Ms Dorries described Carr's comments as "abhorrent" and said "they just shouldn't be on television". It was put to her that in a tweet in 2017 she had claimed that "left-wing snowflakes are killing comedy". She said: "Well, that's not comedy. What Jimmy Carr did last night is not comedy."

Comedy has limits - and Jimmy Carr may have reached them

Even the staunchest defenders of free speech must recognise that some attempts at humour are beyond the pale.

Jimmy Carr gag 'disgusting' and police should investigate him, says Paddy Doherty

Celebrity Big Brother winner Paddy Doherty has demanded police investigate Jimmy Carr over his "disgusting" joke about Gypsies murdered by the Nazis.

Jimmy Carr sparks fury with Holocaust routine

Jimmy Carr has sparked outrage for a routine about the Holocaust in his latest Netflix stand-up special.

I Literally Just Told You is most interesting as a revival of the sort of comedy game show that was once common - Blankety Blank, It's A Knockout! - when regulatory rules kept prizes so cheap that people really were playing for fun in a way that did out to an increase in either reward (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) or rivalry (The Weakest Link, Eggheads).

I Literally Just Told You is a hybrid in which the cash (£25,000 available) is quite flash and has a vicious twist: in the final head-to-head, winners get the loser's earnings too. But the rounds turn on verbal jokes or physical comedy (the best of these a spoof commercial break) on which the four players are then quizzed.

The show has already had to hand over an £18,000 cheque off air because it was realised after recording that one impromptu question demanded a fact not featured on the show. This compounds a general air of sloppiness. In a single edition, Jimmy Carr misquoted the title of a Damien Hirst art-work and attributed to George W. Bush a "quote" that was in fact an imagined comment from a joke about him. Even in a comedy quiz, factual accuracy should matter.

Jimmy Carr gives contestant £18,000 after I Literally Just Told You mistake

Jimmy Carr's telly quiz I Literally Just Told You does what it says on the tin, with all the answers given throughout the show. Well, that's apart from the occasion they forgot to do just that - leaving one contestant empty handed.

Maureen Lipman thinks cancel culture is killing comedy. Don't make me laugh.

The veteran performer's concerns aren't shared by everyone in the comedy world, writes Bruce Dessau.

Review: Jimmy Carr & Mark Watson's memoirs

It's a cliché that stand-up is therapy for the comedian. But in these two books, Jimmy Carr and Mark Watson turn their experiences in the business into life lessons that could benefit their readers.

Jimmy Carr: I lost friends over my tax-avoidance shame

I lost friends, suffered terrifying panic attacks and didn't sleep for days over my tax-avoidance shame, says Jimmy Carr.