Events

491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.

1079 – Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.

1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Muhi.

1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.

1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.

1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.

1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

1775 – The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.

1809 – Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom

1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.

1856 – Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.

1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.

1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.

1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.

1888 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.

1908 – SMS ''Blücher'', the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.

1919 – The International Labour Organization is founded.

1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.

1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.

1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.

1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.

1952 – The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.

1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.

1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.

1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.

1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.

1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

1970 – ''Apollo 13'' is launched.

1976 – The Apple I is created.

1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.

1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.

1986 – The FBI Miami shootout between eight Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and two heavily-armed and well-trained gunmen.

1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.

1993 – 450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.

2000 – AT&T; Park in San Francisco, Minute Maid Park in Houston, and Comerica Park in Detroit open.

2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter is released.

2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by Al Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.

2002 – Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chavez. 19 of the protesters are killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announced Hugo Chavez resignation on national TV.

2006 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.

2007 – 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.

2011 – 2011 Minsk Metro bombing

Births

145 – Septimius Severus (d. 211)

1357 – John I of Portugal (d. 1433)

1374 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398)

1492 – Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (d. 1549)

1592 – John Eliot, English statesman (d. 1632)

1721 – David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (d. 1808)

1722 – Christopher Smart, English poet (d. 1771)

1755 – James Parkinson, English physician (d. 1824)

1769 – Jean Lannes, French marshal (d. 1809)

1770 – George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)

1794 – Edward Everett, 15th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1865)

1798 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (d. 1854)

1810 – Henry Rawlinson, English scholar (d. 1895)

1819 – Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (d. 1895)

1825 – Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician (d. 1864)

1827 – Mahatma Jyotirao Phule, Indian social reformer (d. 1890)

1852 – Cap Anson, American baseball player (d. 1922)

1856 – Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer (d. 1903)

1859 – Stefanos Thomopoulos, Greek writer and historian (d. 1939)

1862 – Charles Evans Hughes, 11th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1948)

1862 – William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer (d. 1938)

1866 – Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (d. 1953)

1867 – Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles County (d. 1928)

1869 – Kasturba Gandhi, Wife of Mohandas Gandhi (d. 1944)

1869 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1943)

1873 – Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1955)

1876 – Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (d. 1958)

1876 – Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgian historian (d. 1940)

1887 – Jamini Roy, Indian/Bengali painter (d. 1972)

1889 – Nick LaRocca, American musician (d. 1961)

1890 – Rachele Mussolini, wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979)

1893 – Dean Acheson, American statesman (d. 1971)

1896 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Quebec novelist (d. 1967)

1899 – Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist (d. 1975)

1900 – Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989)

1904 – Kundan Lal Saigal, Indian singer and actor (d. 1947)

1905 – József Attila, Hungarian poet (d. 1937)

1906 – Dale Messick, American cartoonist (d. 2005)

1907 – Paul Douglas, American actor (d. 1959)

1907 – Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer and entrepreneur (d. 2001)

1908 – Jane Bolin, first African-American woman judge (d. 2007)

1908 – Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (d. 1997)

1908 – Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (d. 1992)

1908 – Leo Rosten, American humorist and author (d. 1997)

1910 – António de Spínola, Portuguese politician (d. 1996)

1913 – Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (d. 2006)

1914 – Norman McLaren, Canadian film animator and director (d. 1987)

1914 – Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)

1916 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (d. 1983)

1916 – Howard W. Koch, American film director (d. 2001)

1917 – Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (d. 1993)

1917 – David Westheimer, American novelist (d. 2005)

1918 – Richard Wainwright, English politician (d. 2003)

1920 – Peter O'Donnell, British writer of mysteries and of comic strips (Modesty Blaise) (d. 2010)

1921 – Jim Hearn, American baseball player (d. 1998)

1923 – George J. Maloof, Sr., American businessman (d. 1980)

1925 – Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman (d. 1997)

1926 – Victor Bouchard, Quebec pianist and composer (d. 2011)

1928 – Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy

1930 – Nicholas Brady, American political figure, 68th Secretary of Treasury

1930 – Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)

1931 – Johnny Sheffield, American actor (d. 2010)

1931 – Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer

1932 – Joel Grey, American singer and actor

1933 – Tony Brown, American journalist

1934 – Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet

1935 – Richard Berry, American singer and composer (d. 1997)

1935 – Richard Kuklinski, American mafia hitman (d. 2006)

1938 – Michael Deaver, Deputy White House Chief of Staff (d. 2007)

1938 – Kurt Moll, German bass

1939 – Louise Lasser, American actress

1941 – Ellen Goodman, American political columnist

1941 – Shirley Stelfox, English actress

1943 – Harley Race, American professional wrestler

1944 – John Milius, American director and writer

1946 – Bob Harris, British disc jockey and presenter

1946 – Laurie Faso, American actor and game show host

1947 – Peter Riegert, American actor

1947 – Uli Edel, German film director

1947 – Meshach Taylor, American actor

1947 – Lev Bulat, Russian physicist

1949 – Bernd Eichinger, German film producer

1949 – Carl Franklin, American actor

1950 – Tom Hill, English bass guitarist (Geordie)

1951 – Doris Angleton, American socialite (d. 1997)

1951 – Paul Fox, English guitarist (The Ruts) (d. 2007)

1951 – James Patrick Kelly, American author

1952 – Peter Windsor, English motor racing journalist and reporter

1953 – Andrew Wiles, British mathematician

1953 – Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium

1954 – Abdullah Atalar, Turkish scientist and academic

1955 – Kevin Brady, American politician

1955 – Michael Callen, American musician (d. 1993)

1955 – Micheal Ray Richardson, American basketball player

1955 – Neville Staple, Jamaican musician

1958 – Stuart Adamson, British musician (Big Country) (d. 2001)

1958 – Brynn Hartman, wife and murderer of comedian Phil Hartman (d. 1998)

1959 – Ana María Polo, Cuban-American lawyer and arbitrator

1960 – Jeremy Clarkson, British journalist

1961 – Doug Hopkins, American musician (d. 1993)

1962 – Vincent Gallo, American actor

1963 – Chris Ferguson, American poker player

1963 – Billy Bowden, New Zealand umpire

1964 – Steve Azar, American singer-songwriter

1964 – Bret Saberhagen, American baseball player

1964 – Johann Sebastian Paetsch, American cellist

1966 – Mason Reese, American actor

1966 – Steve Scarsone, American baseball player

1966 – Lisa Stansfield, English singer

1968 – Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian author

1969 – Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer

1969 – Chisato Moritaka, Japanese singer

1969 – Dustin Rhodes, American professional wrestler

1970 – Trevor Linden, Canadian ice hockey player

1970 – Delroy Pearson, former singer Five Star

1970 – Johnny Messner, American actor

1971 – Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)

1971 – Vicellous Reon Shannon, American actor

1972 – Jason Varitek, American baseball player

1972 – Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler

1973 – Jennifer Esposito, American actress

1974 – Àlex Corretja, Spanish tennis player

1974 – Ashot Danielyan, Armenian weightlifter

1974 – Anton Glanzelius, Swedish actor

1974 – Tricia Helfer, Canadian model and actor

1974 – Zöe Lucker, British television actor

1974 – Trot Nixon, American baseball player

1974 – David Jassy, Swedish musician, songwriter, and music producer

1975 – Walid Soliman, Tunisian author

1976 – Kelvim Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player

1978 – Brett Claywell, American actor

1978 – Josh Hancock, American baseball player (d. 2007)

1978 – Tom Thacker, Canadian musician

1979 – Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Canadian beauty pageant winner

1979 – Malcolm Christie, English footballer

1979 – Chris Gaylor, American drummer

1979 – Sebastien Grainger, Canadian musician

1979 – Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player

1979 – Josh Server, American actor

1979 – María Elena Swett, Chilean actress

1980 – Keiji Tamada, Japanese footballer

1980 – Mark Teixeira, American baseball player

1980 – Festus Baise, Nigerian footballer

1981 – Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model

1981 – Alexandre Burrows, Canadian ice hockey player

1982 – Ian Bell, English cricketer

1982 – Danja, American record producer, composer, and songwriter

1983 – Nicky Pastorelli, Dutch racing driver

1983 – Rubén Palazuelos, Spanish football player

1984 – Kelli Garner, American actress

1985 – Will Minson, Australian rules footballer

1986 – Roman Heart, American porn actor

1986 – Stephanie Pratt, American reality TV personality

1987 – Giuseppe Caccavallo, Italian footballer

1987 – Lights, Canadian singer-songwriter

1987 – Joss Stone, English singer

1990 – Dimitrios Anastasopoulos, Greek footballer

1994 – Dakota Blue Richards, English actress

2000 – Morgan Lily, American actress

2002 – Alexa Gerasimovich, American actress

Deaths

1034 – Romanus III, Byzantine emperor (b. 968)

1165 – Stephen IV, King of Hungary (b. 1133)

1240 – Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd

1554 – Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (b. 1521)

1612 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (b. 1535)

1612 – Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (b. 1566)

1626 – Marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)

1712 – Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (b. 1638)

1723 – John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)

1798 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)

1856 – Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica (b. 1831)

1861 – Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (b. 1824)

1873 – Edward Canby, U.S. general (b. 1817)

1890 – Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man" (b. 1862)

1894 – Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832)

1903 – Gemma Galgani, Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1878)

1906 – James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (b. 1847)

1906 – Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)

1908 – Henry Bird, English chess player and author (b. 1829)

1916 – Richard Harding Davis, American author (b. 1864)

1926 – Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)

1947 – Louise Peete, American murderer (b. 1880)

1953 – Kid Nichols, American baseball player (b. 1869)

1958 – Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)

1962 – Ukichiro Nakaya, Japanese physicist (b. 1900)

1967 – Donald Sangster, Jamaican Prime Minister (b. 1911)

1970 – Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (b. 1923)

1970 – John O'Hara, American author (b. 1905)

1977 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)

1983 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b. 1905)

1985 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian Stalinist dictator (b. 1908)

1985 – Bunny Ahearne, British ice hockey promoter (b. 1900)

1987 – Erskine Caldwell, American author (b. 1903)

1987 – Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (b. 1919)

1990 – Harold Ballard, Canadian ice hockey club owner and executive (b. 1903)

1991 – Walker Cooper, American baseball player (b. 1915)

1991 – Bruno Hoffmann. German glass harmonica player (b. 1913)

1992 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)

1992 – Eve Merriam, American playwright, director, and poet (b. 1916)

1996 – Jessica Dubroff, American pilot (b. 1988)

2000 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)

2001 – Sandy Bull, American musician (b. 1941)

2001 – Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)

2003 – Cecil Howard Green, British geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)

2005 – André François, French cartoonist (b. 1915)

2005 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)

2006 – June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (b. 1953)

2006 – Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)

2007 – Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b. 1925)

2007 – Kurt Vonnegut Jr., American author (b. 1922)

2007 – Ronald Speirs, American Army officer (CO of Easy Company) (b. 1920)

2007 – Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)

2008 – Merlin German, United States Marine (b. 1985)

2009 – Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist (b. 1927)

2009 – Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress (b. 1914)

2010 – Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian composer and musician (b. 1948)

2011 – La Esterella, Flemish singer (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances

Christian Feast Day:

*Antipas of Pergamum (Greek Orthodox Church)

*Gemma Galgani

*Godeberta

*Guthlac

*Stanislaus of Szczepanów

*April 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Juan Santamaría Day, anniversary of his death in the Second Battle of Rivas. (Costa Rica)

External links

BBC: On This Day

On This Day in Canada

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Coordinates	6°7′55″N1°13′22″N
name	Jimmy Carr
birth name	James Anthony Patrick Carr
birth date	September 15, 1972
birth place	Hounslow, Greater London, England
medium	Stand-up, television, film, radio
nationality	British/Irish
active	2000–present
genre	Satire, deadpan, black comedy, blue comedy, cringe comedy
subject	Current events, sex, politics, celebrities, obesity, self-deprecation, relationships
influences	Denis Leary, Paul Merton, Emo Philips, Mark Lamarr, George Carlin
domesticpartner	Karoline Copping(2001-present)
notable work	''8 Out of 10 Cats'' ''Distraction'' ''The Big Fat Quiz of the Year''''10 O'Clock Live''
website

}} James Anthony Patrick "Jimmy" Carr (born 15 September 1972) is an English-Irish comedian and humourist with both British and Irish citizenship. He is known for his deadpan delivery and dark humour. He is also a writer, actor and presenter of radio and television.

Carr moved to a career in comedy in 2000. After becoming established as a stand-up comedian, Carr began to appear in a number of Channel 4 television shows, most notably as the host of the panel show ''8 out of 10 Cats''.

Early life

Carr holds dual British-Irish citizenship, as his parents were from Limerick: Patrick James "Jim" (born March 1945), a Roman Catholic, and Nora Mary (née Lawlor, 19 September 1943 – 7 September 2001), who died of pancreatitis in St Thomas' Hospital, London, aged 57. His parents married in 1970, separated in 1994, but never divorced. His father married Natasha in 2003. Carr has an older brother, Colin, and a younger brother, Patrick. He attended Burnham Grammar School, Buckinghamshire and Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, along with rugby player Matt Dawson, before gaining a place at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a 2:1 degree in Political Sciences. Carr was a marketing executive for Shell in the late 1990s.

Career

Television

Whilst working at JC Productions with his father, Carr made his first television pilot / short film at Pinewood starring Craig Charles, Roy Dotrice and himself. The mockumentary, ''The Colour of Funny'' was essentially a vanity project for Carr.

Hosting

Carr has hosted Channel 4 game shows ''Distraction'' and ''Your Face or Mine?''. He has also presented the ''100s'' series of programmes for Channel 4: ''100 Worst Pop Records'', ''100 Worst Britons'', ''100 Greatest Cartoon Characters'', ''100 People Who Look Most Like Jimmy Carr'' (a spoof) and ''100 Scary Moments''. Carr has also presented a series of ''Commercial Breakdown''.

From 2004 to 2006, Carr hosted a United States version of ''Distraction'' for Comedy Central. He was also nominated for the 2006 Rose d'Or award for Best Game Show Host. Carr presents the ''Big Fat Quiz of the Year'' on Channel 4, having presented the first 7 shows each December (2004–2010). He also currently hosts the quiz show ''8 out of 10 Cats''.

In April 2010, Carr hosted the first British version of a comedy roast show, Channel 4's ''A Comedy Roast''. On 6 May 2010, he was a co-host of Channel 4's ''Alternative Election Night'', along with David Mitchell, Lauren Laverne, and Charlie Brooker. He joined the three presenters again for 10 O'Clock Live, a Channel 4 comedy current affairs show, which started airing on 20 January 2011.

Writing

Carr is also a writer as well as performer, with writing credits including ''Bo' Selecta!'' (C4), ''Meet Ricky Gervais'' (C4) and material for Lily Savage and Frank Skinner.

Guest appearances

Carr was a guest presenter for one edition of ''Have I Got News For You''; later he joined Ian Hislop's team in the edition of the show first shown 23 November 2007, chaired by Ann Widdecombe with whom he “flirted” outrageously. Widdecombe later vowed "I will never appear on ''Have I Got News for You'' again."

Carr has appeared on ''Never Mind The Buzzcocks'' twice, as well as multiple times on ''QI''.

During a guest appearance on the BBC motoring show ''Top Gear'', Carr set a new celebrity test track lap record on the 'Star in a Reasonably Priced Car' segment. He was described as "the worst driver we've ever had" and "the luckiest man alive" by ''Top Gear'''s test driver The Stig. His re-appearance on ''Top Gear'' in May 2006 placed him last in the brand new Reasonably Priced Car, with the slowest time ever (due to the fact that he spun off on his timed lap). Carr also hosted a highlights edition of the show, and on the Top Gear Live World Tour of 2009/10 he hosted the section 'Carmageddon' in which The Stig successfully attempted a 'gear change'.

In the United States, Carr has appeared on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' twice and ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'' three times. Carr has also appeared on the Irish news comedy show ''The Panel''.

In 2003, Carr was in the music video for the song "Proper Crimbo".

Carr appears at the end credits of Ross Noble's ''Randomist'' DVD, where he punches Noble on his way back to the dressing room. Noble had joked in his show that Carr only performed for a "weak" 1 hour 20 minutes, as opposed to Noble's 2 and a half hour show. Carr can also be seen for a few seconds in the audience for Dara Ó Briain's live DVD.

In January 2008, Carr appeared on E4 show ''Big Brother Celebrity Hijack'' as a hijacker for the day.

Carr appeared on the Royal Variety Performance in December 2008.

Radio

Carr is a regular guest and interviewer on ''Loose Ends'' (BBC Radio 4) and ''The Fred MacAulay Show'' (BBC Radio Scotland). In January 2005, Carr hosted 'It's Been a Terrible Year' — a comedy review of 2004, on BBC Radio 2. Up until July 2006, he had a Sunday morning radio show on XFM, with the mercurial comedian Iain Morris. The show had a strong emphasis on toilet humour.

Features, of varying popularity, have included:

Goth Classics — Item lasting about four weeks in which The Sisters of Mercy track 'This Corrosion' was played twice.

Now That's What I Call A Jukebox — Long running item invented by Iain Morris where a number of songs are selected from a Now That's What I Call Music album, and are put to a vote. The song with the most votes is played.

The Songs You Should Like And The Songs You Do Like (But You Like The Song You Should Like As Well) — This catchy-titled item consists of playing in sequence one credible but underrated or overlooked song (The first was 'Touch Sensitive' by The Fall) and one guilty pleasure (Liberty X's 'Just A Little Bit' followed) On 9 July 2006, the item was renamed 'A Song to Patronise, A Song To Sanitise.' Traditionally, items are carried out with little professionalism, presumably to match the rest of the show content.

In January 2006, Carr made a joke on Radio 4's Loose Ends, the punchline of which implied that Gypsy women smelled. Although the BBC issued an apology, Carr refused to, and continues to use the joke during his acts.

Carr appeared in 2 episodes of the radio series of Flight Of The Conchords in 2005.

On 22 January 2009, he covered Zane Lowe's evening show on BBC Radio 1 between 7 and 9pm.

Stand-up comedy

Carr does stand-up tours continuously over the course of the year, taking only five weeks off between them. In 2003 he sold out an entire month's performances of his Edinburgh Festival show ''Charm Offensive'' by the second day of the festival, and received 5-star reviews from four major newspapers. In 2004 he performed sold out solo shows at Dublin's Vicar Street, Leicester's Comedy Festival, Glasgow Festival, Kilkenny Cat Laughs and the Galway Festival along with appearances at The Bloomsbury Theatre where he filmed his first live DVD. Also in 2004 he threatened to sue fellow comedian Jim Davidson for using a joke that Carr considered 'his'. The matter was dropped when it became apparent that the joke in question was an old one used for decades by many different comedians. He toured the country with his show, ''A Public Display of Affection'', starting on 9 April 2005 at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury and ending on the 14 January 2006 at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End. He also appeared at the EICC during the Edinburgh Festival in August 2005 with his ''Off The Telly'' show. Later on in the year, in late November, he released his second DVD "Jimmy Carr: Stand Up".

In August 2006, he commenced a new tour, ''Gag Reflex'', for which he won the 2006 British Comedy Award for "Best Live Stand up". He released his third DVD, ''Jimmy Carr: Comedian'' in November 2007. He also performed at the 2006 Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, as well as making a return visit to the Newbury Comedy Festival. In 2003, he was listed in ''The Observer'' as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. In 2007, a poll on the Channel 4 website for 100 Greatest Stand Ups Jimmy Carr was the 12th. A new national tour commenced in autumn 2007 named ''Repeat Offender'', which began at the Edinburgh Festival that year. In Autumn 2008, Carr began touring his new show, entitled ''Joke Technician''. As with his previous tour, he performed many shows at the Edinburgh Festival, even adding an extra date due to ticket demand.

On 23 April 2009, the dates for Carr's 2009/10 tour, entitled ''Rapier Wit'', were announced. The tour opened on 20 August 2009 with 9 shows at the Edinburgh Festival before touring the country.

On Twitter, Carr released details about his new DVD entitled ''Jimmy Carr: Telling Jokes''. The DVD was released on the 2 November 2009.

In July 2009, Carr revealed that he is currently touring with Las Vegas band The Killers. Killers frontman Brandon Flowers explained that it was part of his vision for his band’s shows to become more of a Las Vegas-style spectacle. Flowers, who grew up in Vegas, said: “We had met Jimmy before, at a Comic Relief gig, then we bumped into him again at a party a couple of weeks later. “We were just throwing ideas around and having a comedian as part of the show sounded like a Las Vegas thing to do — it used to be common in the Sixties and Seventies – “Jimmy seemed to like it so we are giving it a go.”

Carr's sixth Live DVD, ''Jimmy Carr: Making People Laugh'', was released on 8 November 2010.

Carr's 2010/11 tour, entitled ''Laughter Therapy'', was announced on 8 April 2010. The tour will start with a run at the Edinburgh Festival before touring the country.

Carr will also be appearing at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal in July 2011. At which he will be performing his 2010/11 tour show 'Laughter Therapy'. He is due to appear at the Gesu Theatre from July 21 – 30.

Carr's latest stand up DVD is due out on November 21st with the title of ''Jimmy Carr: Being Funny''.

DVD releases

!Title	!Released	!Notes
''Live''	8 November 2004	Live at London's Bloomsbury Theatre
''Stand Up''	7 November 2005	Live at London's Bloomsbury Theatre
''Comedian''	5 November 2007	Live at London's Bloomsbury Theatre
''In Concert''	3 November 2008	Live at London's Bloomsbury Theatre
''Telling Jokes''	2 November 2009	Live at London's Bloomsbury Theatre
''Making People Laugh''	8 November 2010	Live at Glasgow's Clyde Auditorium
''Being Funny''	21 November 2011

Second Life

On 21 December 2006, Carr announced plans to become the first major comedian to perform in the virtual reality world of ''Second Life''. This was confirmed on his MySpace webpage on 3 January 2007, and a competition launched to choose a select audience from the list of his MySpace friends.

Carr's ''Second Life'' show took place on 3 February 2007 at 7pm, at Adam Street Bar and Members Club in central London. Fifty MySpace friends made up his live audience, with 100 virtual attendees in ''Second Life'' itself. The show was enjoyed by both sets of audiences, with excellent feedback received on both Carr's MySpace profile and within ''Second Life''.

Carr hinted at the show that he may perform future shows in ''Second Life''.

In March 2007, Laura Jackson from the Guinness Book of World Records confirmed that Carr had obtained the world record for being the first comedian in cyberspace, following on from his ''Second Life'' show.

Criticism

Detractors of Carr's humour include Conservative politician Ann Widdecombe, who — following an appearance with him on BBC One panel show ''Have I Got News For You'' — wrote in the ''Daily Express'' that "His idea of wit is a barrage of filth and the sort of humour most men grow out of in their teens".

Veteran comedian Arthur Smith was quoted in the ''Sunday Mirror'' in 2005 as saying "He has a terrible act. There I've said it and already I feel better". Smith has gone on to criticise Carr on other occasions. In a 2009 interview with ''The Times'' he said: "He (Carr) makes jokes like little clocks. He has no interest in their context or meaning, only that they cause an explosion of laughter. I want a comedian to have a hinterland. The best comedians are interested in jazz, poetry, and the world".

In October 2009, Carr received criticism from several Sunday tabloid newspapers for a joke he made about British soldiers who had lost limbs in battle in Iraq and Afghanistan. The newspapers themselves came under criticism for falsely claiming the audience reacted with stunned silence when the joke was told. Carr himself has defended the joke as "totally acceptable" in an interview with ''The Guardian'', in which the interviewer noted his tendencies to make jokes about disabilities and rape. Carr would go on to describe the interview, with ''Guardian'' journalist Stephen Moss in the paper's G2 section, on his Twitter account as about "[selling] my DVD to the liberal elite."

Personal life

Carr currently lives in North London with his girlfriend, Karoline Copping, a commissioning editor for Five, whom he has been with since 2001.

In March 2004, Carr's father Jim, a self-made millionaire, was arrested by the Metropolitan Police after Carr and his brother Colin accused their father of harassment. The father was later acquitted of all charges and awarded costs by the Court. His acquittal was followed by a written apology from the CPS. Later the Metropolitan Police also apologised and paid him substantial damages in an out of court settlement of the false arrest and false prosecution charge.

During an appearance on BBC's ''Would I Lie to You?'' (Series 1, Episode 3), Jimmy Carr revealed that he had been a Catholic until his mid-twenties, and remained a virgin until the age of 26 due to his faith. Carr became aware of the writings of Richard Dawkins and renounced his religion, becoming an atheist. He stated that he felt religion limited people's desires to live their own lives.

Awards

LAFTA Awards 2008: Best Stand Up

LAFTA Awards 2007: Funniest Man

British Comedy Awards 2006 – Best Live Stand Up

Rose D'Or Nomination 2006: Best Game Show, 'Distraction'

LAFTA Awards 2005: Funniest Man

Rose D'Or Nomination 2004: Best Presenter, 'Distraction'

Loaded Lafta Award 2004 – Best Stand Up

Royal Television Society Award Winner: Best On-Screen Newcomer 2003

Perrier Award Nominee: 2002

Time Out Award Winner: Best Stand Up 2002

Filmography

! Year !! Film !! Role
rowspan="3"		Gary's manager
	Antony
	John Crawford
		Video Store Guy
		Gentleman

References

External links

Jimmy Carr on Chortle, including forthcoming tour dates

Official website

Official Twitter Feed

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