….Because Jimmy Carr is a boring hack who recycles ancient jokes, dull, juvenile puns and one-liners, and calls it a stand-up comedy routine.
Carr seems to have confused being ‘controversial’ and rude for having actual comedic talent. It felt as if I were watching the self-appointed high school class clown get up on stage, say “cunt”, “fuck”, “cock”, “fag” and “rape” a few hundred times with no sign of any story-telling ability, drag out some moth-eaten jokes that were literally a dozen years old, and bore some of the audience to tears. Sadly, though, not enough of the audience – the teenaged boy contingent, as well as the typical 94.7 Highveld Stereo listener brigade laughed their little brains out.
If you’re going to build your ‘comedy performance’ on being extremely politically incorrect, at least be funny – women being fat, ugly and largely unfuckable is about as interesting to listen to for two hours as parliamentary proceedings are.
Never come back, Jimmy, please. And those who loved him, please go back with him.
Wow, Jimmy Carr was *stonkingly* bad, I have to agree DBAWIW. My favourites were the Princess Diana jokes from ***1998*** and the winning ones like “Suicide bombers are putting bombs up their bums – the shit is really going to hit the fan!”
Really Jimmy? Really?
Absolutely *cringemakingly* bad.
He IS the only comedian I’ve seen actually have a clipboard of the jokes he’s going to tell with him for consultation during the performance.
Right on, Woofles. Yes, I’ve never seen you laugh more than when he told that suicide bomber joke. No, wait, not that…the other one … never seen you in more mental agony. My mistake.
Cuz G, yes! And this time his prop was a paper fortune teller containing so-called witty responses to heckling. Last time I saw one of those was in primary school, when they were used to tell you if the boy you liked was going to like you back