Jimmy Carr

Jimmy Carr: we need more women on panel shows

Jimmy Carr has told Newsbeat that positive discrimination is needed to get more women on television comedy panel shows.

Jimmy Carr: I left a well paid job to join the 'circus'

I had no aspiration as a kid at all. If I'd known that it was possible to work in television, I would have wanted to be a producer; but I didn't know anyone in that world. It wasn't an option.

Jimmy Carr would like presenting job on Top Gear

Jimmy Carr has thrown his hat into the ring to join Chris Evans on the revamped version of Top Gear.

Jimmy Carr interview

Jimmy Carr is heading off on an 18 month tour jam packed with all of his best bits.

Jimmy Carr's greatest hits tour: genius or con?

The stand-up's 2016-7 mega-tour will include his best jokes from the past 15 years.

Review - QI: series M, episode 2: Military Matters

As one of this week's guests was Jimmy Carr I was expecting the latest edition of QI to be rather smutty: gladly, it turns out I was wrong. In fact, this episode was a lot better than I was expecting.

Jimmy Carr: 'I feel incredibly lucky to do what I do'

"Comedy is all about building up tension and then the release of that pressure."

Why can't the BBC do good comedy anymore? Recently we've had truly awful things such as Citizen Khan, Mrs Brown's Boys and, currently showing, the embarrassing Mountain Goats. The last time the BBC managed to provoke a laugh from me was with Murder In Successville on BBC3, a channel soon to be shoved online only.

And there were laughs in the one-off special of Burnistoun, but this was shown in Scotland only. When it comes to the BBC's mainstream, UK-wide comedy, where oh where is the good stuff?

Maybe they feel this terrible dearth of excellent comedy, as they're giving us a reunion show with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse looking back - yes, looking back - to the good old days.

The programme puts Enfield and Whitehouse on stage together in front of an admiring crowd and parodies the An Audience With... shows, but the nice twist is that when we flash to shots of the audience we see Enfield and Whitehouse in the crowd, dressed up as various famous people, and asking cheeky questions. Jimmy Carr, Harry Hill, Ricky Gervais and Prince Charles are all gloriously ridiculed and in between we have great clips of the comedy pair's old shows.

Jimmy Carr review

You've got to admire the master of the pithy putdown, someone who can take complete control of an audience of 500 plus without a crack in his persona.