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One
of the most original and distinctive stars on television, radio
and the stage, Jimmy has enjoyed several hugely successful years;
this year being no exception.
Jimmy’s
five live DVDs (Jimmy Carr,
Stand Up, Comedian, In Concert and
Telling Jokes) have sold over a million copies in total to
date. His all-new stand-up DVD, Making People Laugh will be released in November 2010.
Jimmy’s
current all-new tour show, Rapier
Wit debuted at the Fringe Festival in
Edinburgh
in August 2009,
only a few days after the epic Joke
Technician tour came to a close. Extra dates were
continually being added to
Joke Technician, and it was performed over 200 times across
the
UK
, topping his previous tour,
Repeat Offender, which
ran from August 2007 to July 2008 and featured over 160 tour
dates. Often referred to as ‘the hardest working man in
comedy’, Jimmy has performed his stand up tour shows to over one
million people in the
UK
.
Jimmy
recently completed filming the ninth series of 8
Out of 10 Cats, the comedy panel show based on polls, surveys
and statistics and the tenth series will begin filming later this
year. He also hosted the brand new C4 series of Comedy
Roasts in which Jimmy and a collection of comics make fun of
and celebrate a special invited guest or ‘roastee’.
In May he will host a comedy studio show centred around the
General Election called Alternative
Election Night alongside David Mitchell. Other recent
television appearances include Have
I Got News for You? Would
I Lie to You? and
QI.
A
household name in the
UK
, Jimmy is also a rising star in the
US
, where his profile continues to grow. Jimmy recently performed a
second Comedy Central Special and also appeared on NBC’s Late
Night with Conan O’Brien – his fifth appearance to date.
Jimmy’s game show Distraction aired on Comedy
Central and was subsequently repeated and he has also
appeared four times on NBC’s flagship programme The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
In July 2010, Jimmy will be performing at the Montreal
Just for Laughs Comedy Festival for the sixth time.
With
conventional media conquered, Jimmy is also a pioneer of digital
comedy, topping the album charts on iTunes and the MySpace comedy
rankings, with over 165,000 fans online. He was the first major
comedian to perform within the online world of Second Life, and
the results can be seen as an extra on the Comedian
DVD. In 2009, Jimmy recorded a series of podcasts, entitled The
Writers’ Room, in which he and his favourite writer friends
chat about the latest news and events, exchanging anecdotes and
quips, offering an insight into how comedy material can develop
within a writing environment. The podcast proved a smash hit,
shooting straight to the top of the itunes download chart.
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