Top 10 Jimmy Carr Moments

Top 10 Jimmy Carr Moments

If you are easily offended, best look away now. Welcome to WatchMojo UK and today we’re counting down our picks for the top ten Jimmy Carr moments.

For this list, we’ll be looking at the funniest and most memorable moments from across Jimmy's stand up, as well as television appearances. If it isn’t obvious, be prepared for mature language and subject matter down the line!

#10: Rectal Thermometer

Jimmy has had many appearances across the often educational, and always entertaining, QI and each time he comes armed with gags that cause Stephen Fry and the rest to lose their rag. While on the topic of medicine and medical practises, Jimmy chimes it with a quick joke about how a nurse gets a pen and a rectal thermometer mixed up inside the backside of some poor patient. It may be a rather short gibe, but it’s still a solid joke that gets laughs all around from the panel and the audience alike.

#9: A Letter to Stephen Hawking

With his breakthrough work in the fields of science, it’s fair to say that most people look to the noted theoretical physicist as an inspiration. Here Jimmy writes a letter to Stephen Hawking, explaining how he happened to be an icon to his disabled, nine year old son. The whole thing was a prank of course since Jimmy's disabled son is completely fictional. And that’s when the good professor replied. In a heartfelt response to Jimmy’s fictitious son, we’re not only given a great example of how a joke of this kind can spiral out of control, but just how much of an amazing person Stephen Hawking really is.

#8: Jimmy Carr vs Heckler

Fans of Jimmy Carr will know that he’s built a reputation over the years for destroying hecklers in the most brutal and humiliating ways possible. But they never seem to learn their lesson. In what has to be one of the funniest character assassinations we’ve ever seen, Jimmy deals with a heckler by means of paper fortune telling. So spoiled for choice on how to respond, Jimmy lets the critic choose his own insult. As it happens he chose a particularly vicious one, both for him and woman that brought him into the world.

#7: Patronising

If there’s one thing you can count on when it comes to Jimmy Carr’s comedy, he’ll always find a way to take old stereotypes and breathe new life into them. He’ll offend everyone in the room, but damn if it won’t be hilarious. Kicking off his set during Live at the Apollo, Jimmy chooses to focus on women. Specifically, their apparent obsession with shoes and attitudes towards sex. Even poor Britney Spears gets thrown into the mix. The fact that he also subversively makes fun of men as well just goes to show how multi-layered and outrageous Jimmy’s style of comedy is.

#6: If You Had To Sleep With a Man

Lads, take heed. Next time the conversation over a few pints shifts to the ‘what if’ line of questioning, make sure to remember Jimmy’s wise words. Acting out a scenario in which one friend asks another which guy they’d sleep with, Jimmy’s crazy set of expressions and mannerisms escalate the comedy in spite of repeating the same two phrases over and over again. Of course, it also finishes on a punchline that’s pretty spot on. Admit it, we all know that one guy who would ask this.

#5: Jimmy’s Amazing Anagram

Wordplay is pretty much Jimmy’s bread and butter, little did we know that he would also have quite the penchant for anagrams. During a brain-teaser challenge on QI, the panel is give a set of random letters and needs to create phrases for them by the end of the show. Surprisingly, Jimmy manages to nail it to the point where he uses all of them to create an actual cognitive sentence. It just goes to prove that behind all the comebacks, insults, and jokes that boundaries, Jimmy Carr is an impressive wordsmith.

#4: The Roast of Rob Lowe

It's doubtful any of the celebrities who gathered to watch actor Rob Lowe get roasted knew what they were in for. As Jimmy takes to the stage, the Brit goes on to stun the American audience by verbally ripping apart the likes of Peyton Manning, Rob Riggle and Nikki Glaser. Manning’s appearance and NFL career get attacked, he compares Riggle’s comedy to an Afghan bombing, and states Glaser’s face resembles something both phallic and zoological. It makes you wonder why the producers bothered to hire anyone else.

#3: Tax Evasion

In spite of how savage some of his jokes can be, by far the most infamous moment in his career came when Jimmy was discovered to be embroiled in possible tax avoidance. Calling it a gross error in judgement, it’s fair to say that it hasn’t done much damage to his comedic prospects. That being said, it certainly became a source of comedy for his fellow panellists on the show “8 Out of 10 Cats.” He must have expected some sort of rebuke, and without skipping a beat the likes of Sean Lock and Jon Richardson leap on it. You really do reap what you sow.

#2: Prince Harry

The royals are often an ideal source of comedy given their history. Given his more laddish tendencies over the years, Prince Harry stands out as an easy target, something Jimmy takes full advantage of. Right off the bat we get plenty of jokes about him being ginger, his questionable legitimacy, and of course his playboy lifestyle. Given how he also served as a soldier, Jimmy rounds the whole thing off with a poem that reflects how war and strip clubs are more similar than we might like to admit.

Before we reveal our number one pick, here are a few honourable mentions.

Nazis

Anal Lube

Ultimate Sexual Fantasy

#1: The Most Offensive Joke Ever

As you might have gathered Jimmy Carr’s style of comedy tends to veer towards what some might consider to be in poor taste. Taking full advantage of this, he asks his audience to help him gauge what is truly the most offensive joke. From that point on, nothing is off limits. We get jokes about Princess Diana’s death, 9/11, mentally handicapped children, bestiality, felching, abortion via coat hanger, all tied together with a joke about the holocaust. In other words, this segment is a social justice warrior’s worst nightmare, which is why his fans love him.