Welcome to episode 232 of the JBP podcast. I'm Michaela Peterson. In this episode, Dad hosted Jimmy Carr, a world-renowned British comedian.

For those of you who don't know, Jimmy's been the focus of the newest cancellation craze over his latest Netflix special, his dark materials.

Specifically, people were offended by jokes about the Holocaust in the last part of the special. He referred to the jokes as career enders, and they almost were.

Dad took the opportunity to ask Mr. Carr about the controversy, seeing protesters outside his gigs, PC and canceled culture, the role of comedians in society, laughter, religion, love languages, and more.

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Hey everybody, I'm thrilled today to have with me Mr. Jimmy Carr, one of the world's funniest men, one of the world's purposefully funniest men, which is an important distinction.

An award-winning comedian, writer and television host, Mr. Jimmy Carr is one of the biggest selling comedy acts in the world. He's performed in venues in 40 countries.

His last two are best of ultimate gold greatest hits, somewhat narcissistic title we might add, sold almost half a million tickets globally.

His current show, Terribly Funny, is set to exceed that figure by the end of 2022. He's a household name in UK television, hosting Channel 4's 8 out of 10 cats and some variants of that, and presenting comedy central's roast battle UK and your face or mine.

He's also performed as part of the Royal Variety performance three times, which is something particularly impressive to us, Kanox enamored archaeically with the Queen.

He was the first UK comedian to sign a stand-up deal. I think that means a comedy deal rather than a straight deal, with Nepslix in 2015 releasing business 2016 in best of ultimate gold greatest hits 2017.

He's also performed in my favorite city, Montreal, at the Just For Laugh's Comedy Festival, which I'd highly recommend since 2003 with more appearances than any other UK act in that time.

His YouTube channel, where he's accrued over 500,000 subscribers and 130 million views was launched in 2018.

And because all that is not enough, he's also a published author, he co-wrote the naked JAPE uncovering the hidden world of jokes in 2007, and his highly anticipated memoir before and laughter, launched in September 2021 and made the Sunday Times bestseller list.

So I have a question for you to start. I have to know the answer to this. This is serious business. The 15-foot tall replica of CARS head was used in an advertising campaign for Walker's Crisp, and has subsequently appeared in various publications.

And then it was transported from Preston to the Wichermen Festival. I have to know about that. How in the world did that come about and why?

There was a charitable campaign for this brand of crisps called Walker's, very beloved British crisps, and an enormous model of my head, I mean, who knows one, my head's quite big enough as it is.

And then it's been turned into a bar. And so I occasionally, my Twitter blog, once every couple of years, when they're transported because it goes on the back of a flat, they hit truck and they take it up and down the motorway.

And people just go, was that an enormous effigy of Jimmy Carr? Is he finally lost his mind?

And did you say it was a bar?

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