Jimmy Carr Bio | Wiki
Jimmy Carr is a British-Irish comedian, presenter, writer, and actor. He is known for his deadpan delivery of controversial one-liners, for which he has been both praised and criticized. Carr commenced his comedy career in 2000, at the age of 28, and has regularly appeared on television since 2002.
He served as the host of Channel 4 panel shows such as 8 Out of 10 Cats, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The Big Fat Quiz of the Year. Carr has hosted Channel 4 game shows Distraction and Your Face or Mine?. He presented the 100s series of programs for Channel 4: 100 Worst Pop Records, 100 Worst Britons, 100 Greatest Cartoon Characters, 100 People Who Look Most Like Jimmy Carr, and 100 Scary Moments.
Jimmy Carr Age
Carr was born on September 15, 1972, in Isleworth, United Kingdom. He is 49 years old.
Jimmy Carr Height
He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 8 in (Approx. 1.72 m).
Jimmy Carr Family
He was born James Anthony Patrick in the Hounslow, London, England to his parents Nora Mary and Patrick James “Jim” Carr. Carr is the second of three siblings including Colin Carr and Patrick Carr. His parents are Irish immigrants and his father worked as an accountant who became the treasurer for the computer company Unisys.
Carr’s parents were married in 1970 and separated in 1994, but never divorced. He spent most of his early life in the village of Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire. In 2001 Carr’s mother died of pancreatitis at the age of 57.
Jimmy Carr Wife
Carr is currently dating his Canadian girlfriend Karoline Copping. She is a commissioning editor for Channel 5, with whom he has been in a relationship since 2001. Together, the couple welcomed their son in 2019. Carr has dual British and Irish citizenship, travels on an Irish passport, and has spoken of his pride in having Irish ancestry.
Jimmy Carr Education
He attended Farnham Common School and Burnham Grammar School. Carr completed the sixth form at the Royal Grammar School in nearby High Wycombe. After earning four A grades on the GCE Advanced Level exams, he read social science and political science at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Carr graduated with first-class honors in 1994.
Jimmy Carr Tax
In June 2012, Carr’s involvement in an alleged K2 tax avoidance scheme came to light after an investigation by The Times. The scheme is understood to involve UK earners “quitting” their job and signing new employment contracts with offshore shell companies based in the low-tax jurisdiction of Jersey.
Then-Prime Minister David Cameron said: “People work hard, they pay their taxes, they save up to go to one of his shows. They buy the tickets. He is taking the money from those tickets and he, as far as I can see, is putting all of that into some very dodgy tax-avoiding schemes.” Carr subsequently pulled out of the scheme, apologizing for “a terrible error of judgment”.
Jimmy Carr Laugh
Carr’s sixth Live DVD, Making People Laugh, was released on 8 November 2010. His 2010–11 tour, entitled Laughter Therapy, started with a run at the Edinburgh Festival before touring the UK. Carr released the Laughing and Joking DVD on 18 November 2013.
Jimmy Carr His Dark Material
In a stage performance released as a Christmas 2021 Netflix special titled His Dark Material, Carr joked that a “positive” of the Holocaust was the genocide of thousands of “Gypsies” by Nazi Germany. During the show, he defended his joke, saying that it had the educational value of raising awareness about groups who suffered genocide in the Holocaust.
The show had been released in December 2021 but received widespread attention the following February after a clip was posted and shared online. Carr was condemned by the Auschwitz Memorial, Hope not to Hate, and The Traveller Movement, who called anti-Romani prejudice the “last acceptable form of racism” in the UK
Jimmy Carr Comedy | Stand Up
He performs stand-up tours continuously over the course of the year, taking only five weeks off between them. In 2003 Carr sold out an entire month’s performances of his Edinburgh Festival show Charm Offensive by the second day of the festival.
In August 2006, he commenced the tour Gag Reflex, for which he received the 2006 British Comedy Award for “Best Live Stand up”. Carr released his third DVD, Jimmy Carr: Comedian in November 2007. In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.
Jimmy Carr Netflix
In 2014 and 2015, Carr guest-presented two episodes of Sunday Night at the Palladium on ITV. In 2018, he presented the American comedy panel show The Fix on Netflix. From 2018 to 2020, Carr hosted the Comedy Central series Roast Battle.
Jimmy Carr Show
Since December 2021, Carr is the current host of the game show I Literally Just Told You on Channel 4. He has hosted Channel 4 game shows Distraction and Your Face or Mine?. He presented the 100s series of programs for Channel 4: 100 Worst Pop Records and 100 Scary Moments. Carr was also nominated for the 2006 Rose d’Or award for Best Game Show Host.
Jimmy Carr Book
In 2006, Carr and Lucy Greeves published a book titled The Naked Jape: Uncovering the Hidden World of Jokes on the history and theory of joke-telling. Before & Laughter, a memoir and self-help book was released in December 2021
Jimmy Carr Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Carr’s estimated net worth is $2 million.
Who Is Jimmy Carr
Carr is a British-Irish comedian, presenter, writer, and actor. He is known for his deadpan delivery of controversial one-liners, for which he has been both praised and criticized. Carr commenced his comedy career in 2000, at the age of 28, and has regularly appeared on television since 2002.