He was here recently for his new show. We were treating him like some sort of cryptid while he was here, occasionally snapping blurry pictures of him by the high streets.
i met him a couple months ago randomly at a local butchers. couldn’t believe my eyes lol, he was really nice too i got to speak with him about the show
Yeah that sounds right. I remember we could watch Letterman, Jay Leno and Conan between the channels. I feel like it was between NBC and Sky 1 that we got them all.
Cablelink! Blast from the past. Yeah for some reason NBC was always available on it. It’s how I got into Conan. Prob too young to fully get it but I loved it more than any of the other talk shows, just wasn’t entirely sure why! Might have helped I was a huge Simpsons fan at the time considering Conans history with the show
Made me laugh anyway. Jimmy is great. Watched him recently on a podcast and he came across as a very intelligent person about topics such as mental health and raising kids with people like andrew tate being such an influence on young men
Met him at a few comedy gigs in the UK when I lived there, he seems to just scout other comedians while he's on tour.
Poor lad can never hide his laugh so always gets spotted but was open and friendly with everyone. Even us pissed up Irish lads giving him abuse for being the only posh lad from Limerick not playing rugby for munster.
Saw that, I'm generally lukewarm on him but I watched that start to finish. Definitely an extremely thoughtful person with opinions worth listening to.
Yeah it’s shocking. I didn’t even mildly laugh at it. It’s bizarre because in interviews and podcasts he’s so clued in but it doesn’t seem to equate to his comedy
I realised over the years that I like him as a panel host and as a person, but his style of stand-up doesn't gel with me at all. I find him very interesting and intelligent, but I don't like his actual comedy style at all.
I think he used to be funny. I'm sure I remember enjoying his stand up before, but now everything is just "well this next joke is the one that'll get me cancelled... Trans. *pause for laughter*"
And he's a massive comedy nerd. Knows every joke ever written and can deconstruct the theory behind each over. Pretty sure he wrote a book about it. And here he is making lazy cuntish jokes about deaf people.
This joke would have been a lot funnier the other way round. And he knows that. But he still chose to shit on the disabled minority, because it makes him edgier.
There are quite a few comedians (Ricky Gervais and Frankie Boyle come to mind) who just coast on "shock" material where every joke is about sex/rape/trans people/cancel culture/etc.
Any criticism of their style is put down to sensitivity on the critic's part, rather than the material just being really cheap fare.
It's weird, because I know for Jimmy at least, he is entirely capable of making non-shocking jokes from what I've seen of him on panel shows and the like. I don't understand why he always returns to the material he does in his specials.
Don't think Frankie Boyle is in that category really, his jokes usually have a bit more substance than "controversial thing, haha".
He'll say some edgy stuff sure, but usually in the context of a wider joke.
Of the three of them, Frankie is the closest to having cracked the formula (I don't know, maybe the accent helps elevate it?).
I was curious since I haven't watched his standup in a while, so looked it up. This was [one of the first results](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtVwi1Lsn1M) YouTube gave me.
You can see what I mean - in his first 2 minutes on stage, he averages a "shock" joke about every 15 seconds and they're mainly just sex-related one-liners aimed at audience members.
I do remember his time on Mock the Week quite fondly, though.
I kinda think he knows and doesn't care. Netflix are chucking so much money at him he'll never need to work again, and they have no quality control. He can get millions for tossing out any old shit, so that's what he's doing. He's the stand-up comedy equivalent of elderly Picasso.
It was terrible.
He did the whole "you can't say this out loud anymore" thing while saying it out loud on a Netflix funded comedy special.
And he was doing the whole "you're too afraid to laugh" thing when the jokes were bombing.
It was low effort, unfunny edgelord stuff.
I feel like Stewart Lee's Snowflake/Tornado really went to town on the "cancelled" comedians like Gervais and Chappelle who make a fortune ridiculing trans people while his own show on Netflix got it's metadata mixed up with Sharknado.
Seems like a lovely fella, but yeah.... the stand up is a bit lazy the last few years. Suppose when your whole schtick is offensive one liners, the well will run dry at some stage.
It’s the same kind of shite that Gervais puts out, gurning about being cancelled while laughing at his own terrible jokes on a show shown worldwide on one of the largest streaming platforms, it’s just tiresome and lazy. I used to find Gervais really funny but now he just annoys me, I haven’t seen Carr’s thing but I’ve read reviews and it seems like he’s gone the same way
The Office is a masterpiece and it hinged on the fact that David Brent had a painfully outdated and awkward view on things.
Gervais is now like an unironic Brent.
His bit on Conan Needs to Go where she's teaching him how to sound Dublin is basically how I lost my accent when I moved to Canada. She keeps having to repeat herself or change how she says things for him to understand - she even calls him out on it. I mean how does "annoyin' me ma" become "A Nine memaw"?
I've been a huge fan of Jimmy Carr for years, but soured on him recently, due to all his 'political correctness / can't say anything now' schick, but I listened to this whole podcast and he told Conan that Cancel Culture isn't really a thing. Went on for quite a bit about it. I don't even know any more.
> due to all his 'political correctness / can't say anything now'
I always took that as satire, as he consistently makes fun of comedians that bang on about it. And in his live shows the last 10 years when he says that, he then goes on to make outrageous jokes proving the opposite.
Lol, a bit of boneappletea there. Also, I don't get it- liking Jimmy Carr doing an accent is gay? How? As a lifelong battyboy myself I honestly don't see Jimmy playing well to the crowd at the CockPitt.
~~You're the one who stated that "the comments in this sub drives home the idea that most users are botty boyz" so you called most users gay, either that or you're lost.~~
~~That's not me putting words in your mouth, that is 100% you.~~
I am a fucking eejit. My apologies u/patch_worx
I appreciate that Conon knows a Dublin accent anyway.
He was here recently for his new show. We were treating him like some sort of cryptid while he was here, occasionally snapping blurry pictures of him by the high streets.
i met him a couple months ago randomly at a local butchers. couldn’t believe my eyes lol, he was really nice too i got to speak with him about the show
He's deceptively tall. Seen him in person and couldn't believe how tall he actually is 🤣
He'll be appearing on ros na rún in the next week or so.
He actually learned a bit of Irish for an episode of Ros Na Rún
I remember watching him back in the 90s on Cablelink and he did a trip to Ireland then. https://youtu.be/UL2TlhQcOO8
Hell be on a SuperValu bag before he knows it
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Yeah that sounds right. I remember we could watch Letterman, Jay Leno and Conan between the channels. I feel like it was between NBC and Sky 1 that we got them all.
Cablelink! Blast from the past. Yeah for some reason NBC was always available on it. It’s how I got into Conan. Prob too young to fully get it but I loved it more than any of the other talk shows, just wasn’t entirely sure why! Might have helped I was a huge Simpsons fan at the time considering Conans history with the show
Im a fan but I don't think he's gone through an episode of his podcast without stating "well I'm irish" It's honestly comical how much he brings it up
ive watched some of the backstage stuff with his crew and the whole "im irish" thing is a bit tiring
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Do you take card?
I'll give ya 1 euro for a rollie.
That's actually pretty good.
We have a lad in ballymun who’s deaf and he sounds exactly like that, that’s after folding me like a deck chair hahaha
Made me laugh anyway. Jimmy is great. Watched him recently on a podcast and he came across as a very intelligent person about topics such as mental health and raising kids with people like andrew tate being such an influence on young men
I met him in a pub in Dublin around 15 years ago, he was very friendly.
and surprisingly down to earth
And originally from Yoker.
so he's never wondered what Yoker is like, mind boggling
And very funny.
He seems bang on. Think his mam is from limerick
Met him at a few comedy gigs in the UK when I lived there, he seems to just scout other comedians while he's on tour. Poor lad can never hide his laugh so always gets spotted but was open and friendly with everyone. Even us pissed up Irish lads giving him abuse for being the only posh lad from Limerick not playing rugby for munster.
Love his laugh. 8 out of 10 cats used to be great sean locke would have him doing his laugh every couple of minutes.
Both his parents in fact
Deadly didn't know that
He doesn't speak to his dad. Bit of an arsehole it seems. He tried to sue jimmy over a joke of all things.
We won't hold that against him.
Is that where he learned the accent?
I didn’t wanna honk my own horn but yeah, I taught him
Saw that, I'm generally lukewarm on him but I watched that start to finish. Definitely an extremely thoughtful person with opinions worth listening to.
Which podcast was this?
Looks like Conan O'Brien needs a friend.
Conan O'Brian Needs A Friend
OK, but which podcast was it?
https://youtu.be/uHLAazKUU68?si=x8vvckBdxkTnbqnN That's what I saw it on. Diary of a ceo.
This was an incredible podcast, one of the best I've ever listened to I think.
Probably Diary of a CEO. Some interesting episodes.
Thanks for mentioning this, it caused me to watch his interview that YouTube kept pushing my way!
Haha so it's not just me. Youtube forced it down my throat today so I gave in and watched. Never watched the diary of a ceo before
Same here. He seems like a decent interviewer though so the algo isn't all bad
He sounds like a deaf Northsider TBF
Shoulda thrown in "Bud' at the end
That new Jimmy Carr special on Netflix is pretty poor. It's like being out with that friend who thinks just saying rape or paedophile is funny.
Yeah it’s shocking. I didn’t even mildly laugh at it. It’s bizarre because in interviews and podcasts he’s so clued in but it doesn’t seem to equate to his comedy
I realised over the years that I like him as a panel host and as a person, but his style of stand-up doesn't gel with me at all. I find him very interesting and intelligent, but I don't like his actual comedy style at all.
His stand-up format doesnt work for me atall. An hour straight of oneliners is dull after two mintues... His panel shows though are fantastic
I think he used to be funny. I'm sure I remember enjoying his stand up before, but now everything is just "well this next joke is the one that'll get me cancelled... Trans. *pause for laughter*"
And he's a massive comedy nerd. Knows every joke ever written and can deconstruct the theory behind each over. Pretty sure he wrote a book about it. And here he is making lazy cuntish jokes about deaf people. This joke would have been a lot funnier the other way round. And he knows that. But he still chose to shit on the disabled minority, because it makes him edgier.
You got downvoted for truth telling...
Getting upvoted on r/Ireland would be worrying!
The guy is a prick that often goes for cheap laughs but somehow gets lauded here cos "irish'.
There are quite a few comedians (Ricky Gervais and Frankie Boyle come to mind) who just coast on "shock" material where every joke is about sex/rape/trans people/cancel culture/etc. Any criticism of their style is put down to sensitivity on the critic's part, rather than the material just being really cheap fare. It's weird, because I know for Jimmy at least, he is entirely capable of making non-shocking jokes from what I've seen of him on panel shows and the like. I don't understand why he always returns to the material he does in his specials.
Don't think Frankie Boyle is in that category really, his jokes usually have a bit more substance than "controversial thing, haha". He'll say some edgy stuff sure, but usually in the context of a wider joke.
Of the three of them, Frankie is the closest to having cracked the formula (I don't know, maybe the accent helps elevate it?). I was curious since I haven't watched his standup in a while, so looked it up. This was [one of the first results](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtVwi1Lsn1M) YouTube gave me. You can see what I mean - in his first 2 minutes on stage, he averages a "shock" joke about every 15 seconds and they're mainly just sex-related one-liners aimed at audience members. I do remember his time on Mock the Week quite fondly, though.
I kinda think he knows and doesn't care. Netflix are chucking so much money at him he'll never need to work again, and they have no quality control. He can get millions for tossing out any old shit, so that's what he's doing. He's the stand-up comedy equivalent of elderly Picasso.
He 100% still cares, his recent standup was just shite, simple as. I feel like his standard dropped a bit around the time he got his hair done.
It was terrible. He did the whole "you can't say this out loud anymore" thing while saying it out loud on a Netflix funded comedy special. And he was doing the whole "you're too afraid to laugh" thing when the jokes were bombing. It was low effort, unfunny edgelord stuff.
I feel like Stewart Lee's Snowflake/Tornado really went to town on the "cancelled" comedians like Gervais and Chappelle who make a fortune ridiculing trans people while his own show on Netflix got it's metadata mixed up with Sharknado.
"these days..."
Seems like a lovely fella, but yeah.... the stand up is a bit lazy the last few years. Suppose when your whole schtick is offensive one liners, the well will run dry at some stage.
It’s the same kind of shite that Gervais puts out, gurning about being cancelled while laughing at his own terrible jokes on a show shown worldwide on one of the largest streaming platforms, it’s just tiresome and lazy. I used to find Gervais really funny but now he just annoys me, I haven’t seen Carr’s thing but I’ve read reviews and it seems like he’s gone the same way
The Office is a masterpiece and it hinged on the fact that David Brent had a painfully outdated and awkward view on things. Gervais is now like an unironic Brent.
Stephen Merchant has stayed funny the whole time...
Jokes on Jimmy - I am deaf and from North Dublin so.
You should hear this man it's spot on.
Niceeeeee 👏
Funny fucker that Jim man! Also very proud of his irish heritage, his book had a few chapters on it
His bit on Conan Needs to Go where she's teaching him how to sound Dublin is basically how I lost my accent when I moved to Canada. She keeps having to repeat herself or change how she says things for him to understand - she even calls him out on it. I mean how does "annoyin' me ma" become "A Nine memaw"?
Ah heeyor dats noh wah we tawk like
Me before watching: Well, this is going to be offensive. Me after watching: Actually, that was bang on.
I've been a huge fan of Jimmy Carr for years, but soured on him recently, due to all his 'political correctness / can't say anything now' schick, but I listened to this whole podcast and he told Conan that Cancel Culture isn't really a thing. Went on for quite a bit about it. I don't even know any more.
> due to all his 'political correctness / can't say anything now' I always took that as satire, as he consistently makes fun of comedians that bang on about it. And in his live shows the last 10 years when he says that, he then goes on to make outrageous jokes proving the opposite.
He literally says the exact opposite on this vwey podcast. That political correctness has not limited what people can say
Yes, that's what I said: that cancel culture isn't a thing. But he's been going on about it for years.
Almost like you shouldn't put people into boxes. Pretty fuckin obvious
Imagine judging people based on the things they say and do.
Imagine being "soured" by a person based on a single tepid opinion.
Isn't his mum from Limerick? He often performs at the INEC here in Killarney
Superb.
Jimmy nailed it, fair fucks.
That's Brilliant!
Conan is so damm good he dragged a funny gag out of Jimmy carr.
That's outrageous, holy fuck ahahahas
He's a funny cunt, it can't be denied.
Jimmy Cart is a despicable human being.
You missed the part where he says that knob head Bono thought him how to do it.
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> are botty boyz At least get it right if you're going to call someone gay. Its bAtty boy.
Lol, a bit of boneappletea there. Also, I don't get it- liking Jimmy Carr doing an accent is gay? How? As a lifelong battyboy myself I honestly don't see Jimmy playing well to the crowd at the CockPitt.
~~You're the one who stated that "the comments in this sub drives home the idea that most users are botty boyz" so you called most users gay, either that or you're lost.~~ ~~That's not me putting words in your mouth, that is 100% you.~~ I am a fucking eejit. My apologies u/patch_worx
they didn't maybe check the usernames first.
Erhm, nope that was notarobat, my username is patch\_worx and I was agreeing with you.
yeah, I'm a fucking idiot. Sorry about that.
Don't worry about it, we've all been there :)
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And yet here you are
Username checks out.
Jimmy Carr is an asshole who should pay his taxes. It's insulting to deaf people and how exactly do they talk in Tallaght, Crumlin etc,.?
Anyone that is legitimately insulted by this has much bigger problems to be worrying about than a comedian taking the piss.
Maybe we should remove the subtitles from the video. Then they won’t be insulted
He's a comedian
>Jimmy Carr is an asshole who should pay his taxes. He does.
*arsehole
> It's insulting to deaf people Sure they can't hear it anyway.
Bring likened to dubs is an insult whether you hear or read it.
I get it now.