It's Not About Jimmy Carr Live

posted by Jaitu at 21:38

Last Sunday night we saw Jimmy Carr performing live at The Brighton Dome. If you're a fan of Jimmy Carr you will not be surprised to learn that he is as funny as you would expect. In my opinion he is at his best when interacting with the audience. I suspect he knows this too as there were a number of points during the evening where he invited questions from the audience. As it happens that brings me to the main reason for this post. Before the performance began, while we sat in the theatre, the rest of the audience found their seats. A couple among the group sitting directly behind us very loudly discussed their strategy to definitely get Jimmy's attention. I say strategy, in fact they didn't go much beyond repeatedly stating that Jimmy would definitely talk to them and they would definitely make sure of it and it would definitely be so cool when Jimmy definitely spoke them.
Once Jimmy had made his appearance and the evening was underway our self-confident shadows' strategy become abundantly clear. It was, it must be said, stunningly simple(minded). They simply laughed in falsely forced manner more loudly and for longer than anyone else at every joke. Somehow it failed in almost every way. The one way in which it succeeded was in sucking a large amount of enjoyment of the show from those surrounding them. When later Jimmy opened up the first round of open questioning the girl half encouraged the boy half , in a loud stage whisper, to ask something. He seemed uncharacteristically self conscious and sheepishly declined. Four or five questions passed and as the performance was about to move on the guy finally gathered the courage to shout out a blindingly clever question to our comedic host. "How tall are you?".
Genius.
To his credit and our amusement Mr Carr instantly responded, "Life size. I'm this f***ing tall". Fortunately for us their desire for further recognition seemed to diminish afterwards.
Don't get me wrong it was a fantastic evening and I would recommend seeing Jimmy Carr live to anyone not easily offended. It was just a shame I spent most of the first half dividing my concentration between enjoying Jimmy and seething. It's a strange experience to have some much fun while so angry.
Which reminds me of a joke, possibly worthy of Mr Carr.
A husband challenged his wife to think of something that could make you both happy and sad simultaneously. She thought for a moment and responded, "You have a bigger cock than your brother."

And just for a laugh here's a very short clip of Jimmy Carr on QI.