One of the most original and distinctive stars on television, radio and the stage, Jimmy has enjoyed several hugely successful years; this year being no exception.

Jimmy’s first four DVDs (Jimmy Carr, Stand Up, Comedian and In Concert) have sold 850,000 copies in total. His all-new stand-up DVD, Telling Jokes was released in November 2009 and is packed with lots of original extras that fans have come to expect from Jimmy’s DVDs. 

Jimmy’s current all-new tour show, Rapier Wit debuted at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh in August 2009, only a few days after the epic Joke Technician tour came to a close.  Extra dates were continually being added to Joke Technician, and it was performed over 200 times across the UK, topping his previous tour, Repeat Offender, which ran from August 2007 to July 2008 and featured over 160 tour dates. Often referred to as ‘the hardest working man in comedy’, Jimmy has performed his stand up tour shows to over one million people in the UK.

Jimmy is currently filming the ninth series of 8 Out of 10 Cats, the comedy panel show based on polls, surveys and statistics, this summer. Other recent television appearances include Have I Got News for You? Would I Lie to You?  and QI.

A household name in the UK, Jimmy is also a rising star in the US, where his profile continues to grow. Jimmy recently performed a second Comedy Central Special and also appeared on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien – his fifth appearance to date. Jimmy’s game show Distraction aired on Comedy Central and was subsequently repeated and he has also appeared four times on NBC’s flagship programme The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.  In July 2009, Jimmy performed at the Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival for the fifth time.

With conventional media conquered, Jimmy is also a pioneer of digital comedy, topping the album charts on iTunes and the MySpace comedy rankings, with over 165,000 fans online. He was the first major comedian to perform within the online world of Second Life, and the results can be seen as an extra on the Comedian DVD. In 2009, Jimmy recorded a series of podcasts, entitled The Writers’ Room, in which he and his favourite writer friends chat about the latest news and events, exchanging anecdotes and quips, offering an insight into how comedy material can develop within a writing environment. The podcast proved a smash hit, shooting straight to the top of the itunes download chart and more episodes can be expected this year.