June 19, 2025 • 8 mins
This morning, Jimmy Carr joined us all the way from Norway to chat about his epic 2026 tour Down Under, which includes Perth. He told the guys about his extensive travel plans and an iconic drinking sesh at Perth’s Crown Casino. Lisa asks what audiences can expect from the show?
Jimmy finds unlikely inspiration from Maya Angelou and the guys ask if a comedian should ever apologise for a joke? Plus, Jimmy tells the guys his hilarious plans to unwind post-show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He's coming to town. It's not till April twenty first
next year, but i'd be getting in now from my
tickets through ticket Tech. Jimmy Carr at the rac Arena
and Jimmy is with us this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hello, Oh hello, I say hello.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
But considering the time difference, it is it is night
where you are and you've literally just come off stage.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I've literally just walked off stage, but it's not nighttime
because I'm in Norway. Basically it doesn't get dark yet.
It gets dark for about an hour when I think
come out and skirt at the local of course, and
then so basically it's like it feels it's daytime. Walking
out of the second show.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It's crazy that I'll do your head in. But when
you are coming to Australia and playing lots of different venuesually,
playing places like Ballarette and Bendy, go On, woll and Gong,
so not just kept cities. Thinking behind that you just
want to catch up and get the show to as
many people as possible.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
A bit of that, and there's also you know, the
people of the people of Ballarat and Bendig. You don't
want them me to major cities and only messing up
to So it's best if we contain the problem. I'll
go to them. It's really, it's really it's my love
of Breta Tumberg. It makes more sense if just my
carbon front print is bad, is bad, I go to them.
(01:16):
But I hate it when people go, oh, yeah, I've
done Australia and they've done Sydney and Melbourne. They've even
been to Brisbane and Perth. Well about nothing count at all. Well,
Perth is like, it's such a weird it's so far
away from the rest of it and so different feel.
I remember being there a couple of years ago and
getting drunk in the Crown Casino on like Caffrey's Ale,
(01:39):
like Cathy's like, you can't get that in London. You
can only get that in Ireland. It's really specific, like
British and Irish people and the Five Fos and the
different culture people are living in Balley and flying in
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Okay, this is true. Well, can you tell us about
the tour. I mean it's almost a year away. Is
it in the can or is it something you're still
working on constantly, a constantly evolving thing.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, the show is the show. I mean, you know,
I write jokes. I've got a good fastball. I always
think I'm good with a short, pithy one liners, and
jokes will always be my love language. But really the
heart of the show is messing around with the audience.
So it's kind of half jokes that I've written and
I'm there to perform them, and you can sit and listen,
and it's it's interactive in that. I always think it's
(02:26):
like performative being in an audience, you know what I mean.
Like if you go and see Bruce Springsteen live and
he says how you're doing, everyone goes yeah. But if
you said the stuff that's how you're doing, they go, oh, yeah,
I'm fine. You don't join in the same way. Like
I almost think gigs are you're watching people play. They're
just they're like they're there to have a good time.
(02:48):
They're sort of brought into it. But half of it
is interactive with my show. You know, a lot of
comics want people to shut up and listen, and I
want people to join in. I kind of feel like
I don't have a monopoly on this sense of humor.
People come of my shows. It's self selecting people that
come with a dark sense of humor and they want
to join in.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And great, Oh absolutely. What about when you know someone
else in the audience My dad died watching one of
your shows and died laughing.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Oh yeah, true story.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Right, did you do any background James No, No died
of boredom.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
That was the one. The But I mean, I love that.
I love it when the heckler wins. I mean occasionally
it does happen, and I kind of think we're all in.
You've got you know, I'm in the service industry, right,
I'm never I'm never going to go short because I
make something that people want and make them happy. Yeah,
And it's like these it's like a not to quote
Maya Angelou, which seems rather weird of me, but my
(03:44):
Angelou said it best, Like people don't remember what you said,
they remember how you made them feel. That thing of
like we're all in service of evening. Whether the heckler
wins or I get one over on them, it doesn't matter.
It's all in service of the evening. We're just having fun.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
It's pretty good that Mayra. We hear it. We do
hear a lot about cancel culture these days, which just
strikes me. As kind of an outter nonsense myself. Cancel culture.
But should a comedian ever apologize for a joke? I
wouldn't think so.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I listen, here's the motto of the royal family, and
it maybe is the best thing they've ever given us. Yes,
never complain, Never explain. It's like, if you're explaining a joke,
then you've already lost because they've engaged you in a
it's a straw man where they've taken a joke and
they said, yeah, but what if that was a statement,
(04:34):
But it wasn't a statement, it was a joke. Jokes
can't be they can't be offensive because even if it's
a I always think of evil canevil. If I do
a joke and it doesn't work and it goes too far, well, listen, man,
I was paid for the attempt, not for the job.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
You're not going to lose your head in your helmet.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, I Reckonmire Angelo would agree, Yeah, I bet you would.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well. It's also the cancel culture thing is like, let's
write eyes this, shall we there's people that get canceled.
I don't know, Harvey Weinstein, okay, yeah, okay, But then
sometimes I get canceled and you go, yeah, I told
a joke and some people didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, that doesn't make it wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Okay, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
We move on, we get up on the next show.
Good Jimmy, What are you feeling right now post show?
Is there a big adrenaline rush or are you starting
to calm? How do you sort of deal with that?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You? I'm pretty calm. I did I do a lot
of shows. I did. I did two shows tonight, so
I do routinely. I'll do one at seven on, one
at nine point thirty, one for me, one for the
tax man. That's how I operate, done things in order,
so I'm pretty relaxed. I think it's that thing of
like I really enjoy the gigs when I do them,
but it's not like there's a huge come down afterwards.
(05:53):
Do you kind of you get used to that thing?
I guess it's it's quite nice now to be chatting
away to you guys after the gig, because sometimes you
come back to the hotel, go does that just happen?
I didn't feel real?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
And especially is it's daylight outside?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Can you tell us about your new collaboration with Netflix
and the BBC The Big pitch your new podcast.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh yeah, I'm doing uh you know Netflix, back to
the money truck, up to the up to the house,
and do you want to know a podcast? And yeah, yeah,
of course, don't worry about So it's people pitching me
ideas for movies and basically it's an improv game, which
is like messing around. They've got all of these weird
algorithms where they go, oh, yeah, we've got like a million,
(06:33):
you know, different genres, so pictures a movie in this genre,
and then they pitch it and I basically turn it down.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It's like Shark Tank but with one shark.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, it's it's shark Tank with much lower stakes.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
There were trophies and awards for all kinds of things
these days, including sport. But if in the entertainment realm,
if you're making movies, you're doing TV or music, the
trophies but first, comedians. Have you got many trophies in
your career for anything?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I don't think I have, no quite. Still I'm quite
pleased with that, and in a way, I sort of
think the reward is the job. Like of all the
industries that don't need a slap on the back and recognition.
It's maybe comedians we get immediate feedback. The loop is
you got. Yeah, if you make an art house movie,
maybe you need an award because no one saw it
(07:23):
and you need to man, you know, someone needs to
acknowledge the value was really good. But like if you
make a blockbuster, you get the money, and with a
comedian you get laughter out the money. Please what more?
What more?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah, don't do the tangible gong.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I think what the awards is? Yeah, I knowing awards.
If you weren't enough without it, you won't be enough
with it.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You say again, that's.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
That was me, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
All right, well we look forward tomorrow that wisdom and
we'll give you the money and the laughter. At the
Area April twenty first, next year tickets as ticket Tech.
Now you can crack open or something properly, I um
wined after you show.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Do Yeah, I'm going to do. I'm going to crack
and open a prostitute and do a couple of lines
of coca.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Utiful enough and we'll buy you. We'll buy your drink
at CRANDIX. Taper mate all the best.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I've got a mini I've got a mini top of Springles.
I think that's sexy. That'll be twelve dollars, you know, thanks, Yeah, listen,
what a pleasure.
He's coming to town. It's not till April twenty first
next year, but i'd be getting in now from my
tickets through ticket Tech. Jimmy Carr at the rac Arena
and Jimmy is with us this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hello, Oh hello, I say hello.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
But considering the time difference, it is it is night
where you are and you've literally just come off stage.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I've literally just walked off stage, but it's not nighttime
because I'm in Norway. Basically it doesn't get dark yet.
It gets dark for about an hour when I think
come out and skirt at the local of course, and
then so basically it's like it feels it's daytime. Walking
out of the second show.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It's crazy that I'll do your head in. But when
you are coming to Australia and playing lots of different venuesually,
playing places like Ballarette and Bendy, go On, woll and Gong,
so not just kept cities. Thinking behind that you just
want to catch up and get the show to as
many people as possible.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
A bit of that, and there's also you know, the
people of the people of Ballarat and Bendig. You don't
want them me to major cities and only messing up
to So it's best if we contain the problem. I'll
go to them. It's really, it's really it's my love
of Breta Tumberg. It makes more sense if just my
carbon front print is bad, is bad, I go to them.
(01:16):
But I hate it when people go, oh, yeah, I've
done Australia and they've done Sydney and Melbourne. They've even
been to Brisbane and Perth. Well about nothing count at all. Well,
Perth is like, it's such a weird it's so far
away from the rest of it and so different feel.
I remember being there a couple of years ago and
getting drunk in the Crown Casino on like Caffrey's Ale,
(01:39):
like Cathy's like, you can't get that in London. You
can only get that in Ireland. It's really specific, like
British and Irish people and the Five Fos and the
different culture people are living in Balley and flying in
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Okay, this is true. Well, can you tell us about
the tour. I mean it's almost a year away. Is
it in the can or is it something you're still
working on constantly, a constantly evolving thing.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, the show is the show. I mean, you know,
I write jokes. I've got a good fastball. I always
think I'm good with a short, pithy one liners, and
jokes will always be my love language. But really the
heart of the show is messing around with the audience.
So it's kind of half jokes that I've written and
I'm there to perform them, and you can sit and listen,
and it's it's interactive in that. I always think it's
(02:26):
like performative being in an audience, you know what I mean.
Like if you go and see Bruce Springsteen live and
he says how you're doing, everyone goes yeah. But if
you said the stuff that's how you're doing, they go, oh, yeah,
I'm fine. You don't join in the same way. Like
I almost think gigs are you're watching people play. They're
just they're like they're there to have a good time.
(02:48):
They're sort of brought into it. But half of it
is interactive with my show. You know, a lot of
comics want people to shut up and listen, and I
want people to join in. I kind of feel like
I don't have a monopoly on this sense of humor.
People come of my shows. It's self selecting people that
come with a dark sense of humor and they want
to join in.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And great, Oh absolutely. What about when you know someone
else in the audience My dad died watching one of
your shows and died laughing.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Oh yeah, true story.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Right, did you do any background James No, No died
of boredom.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
That was the one. The But I mean, I love that.
I love it when the heckler wins. I mean occasionally
it does happen, and I kind of think we're all in.
You've got you know, I'm in the service industry, right,
I'm never I'm never going to go short because I
make something that people want and make them happy. Yeah,
And it's like these it's like a not to quote
Maya Angelou, which seems rather weird of me, but my
(03:44):
Angelou said it best, Like people don't remember what you said,
they remember how you made them feel. That thing of
like we're all in service of evening. Whether the heckler
wins or I get one over on them, it doesn't matter.
It's all in service of the evening. We're just having fun.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
It's pretty good that Mayra. We hear it. We do
hear a lot about cancel culture these days, which just
strikes me. As kind of an outter nonsense myself. Cancel culture.
But should a comedian ever apologize for a joke? I
wouldn't think so.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I listen, here's the motto of the royal family, and
it maybe is the best thing they've ever given us. Yes,
never complain, Never explain. It's like, if you're explaining a joke,
then you've already lost because they've engaged you in a
it's a straw man where they've taken a joke and
they said, yeah, but what if that was a statement,
(04:34):
But it wasn't a statement, it was a joke. Jokes
can't be they can't be offensive because even if it's
a I always think of evil canevil. If I do
a joke and it doesn't work and it goes too far, well, listen, man,
I was paid for the attempt, not for the job.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
You're not going to lose your head in your helmet.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, I Reckonmire Angelo would agree, Yeah, I bet you would.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well. It's also the cancel culture thing is like, let's
write eyes this, shall we there's people that get canceled.
I don't know, Harvey Weinstein, okay, yeah, okay, But then
sometimes I get canceled and you go, yeah, I told
a joke and some people didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, that doesn't make it wrong.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Okay, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
We move on, we get up on the next show.
Good Jimmy, What are you feeling right now post show?
Is there a big adrenaline rush or are you starting
to calm? How do you sort of deal with that?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You? I'm pretty calm. I did I do a lot
of shows. I did. I did two shows tonight, so
I do routinely. I'll do one at seven on, one
at nine point thirty, one for me, one for the
tax man. That's how I operate, done things in order,
so I'm pretty relaxed. I think it's that thing of
like I really enjoy the gigs when I do them,
but it's not like there's a huge come down afterwards.
(05:53):
Do you kind of you get used to that thing?
I guess it's it's quite nice now to be chatting
away to you guys after the gig, because sometimes you
come back to the hotel, go does that just happen?
I didn't feel real?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
And especially is it's daylight outside?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Can you tell us about your new collaboration with Netflix
and the BBC The Big pitch your new podcast.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh yeah, I'm doing uh you know Netflix, back to
the money truck, up to the up to the house,
and do you want to know a podcast? And yeah, yeah,
of course, don't worry about So it's people pitching me
ideas for movies and basically it's an improv game, which
is like messing around. They've got all of these weird
algorithms where they go, oh, yeah, we've got like a million,
(06:33):
you know, different genres, so pictures a movie in this genre,
and then they pitch it and I basically turn it down.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It's like Shark Tank but with one shark.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, it's it's shark Tank with much lower stakes.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
There were trophies and awards for all kinds of things
these days, including sport. But if in the entertainment realm,
if you're making movies, you're doing TV or music, the
trophies but first, comedians. Have you got many trophies in
your career for anything?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I don't think I have, no quite. Still I'm quite
pleased with that, and in a way, I sort of
think the reward is the job. Like of all the
industries that don't need a slap on the back and recognition.
It's maybe comedians we get immediate feedback. The loop is
you got. Yeah, if you make an art house movie,
maybe you need an award because no one saw it
(07:23):
and you need to man, you know, someone needs to
acknowledge the value was really good. But like if you
make a blockbuster, you get the money, and with a
comedian you get laughter out the money. Please what more?
What more?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah, don't do the tangible gong.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I think what the awards is? Yeah, I knowing awards.
If you weren't enough without it, you won't be enough
with it.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You say again, that's.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
That was me, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
All right, well we look forward tomorrow that wisdom and
we'll give you the money and the laughter. At the
Area April twenty first, next year tickets as ticket Tech.
Now you can crack open or something properly, I um
wined after you show.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Do Yeah, I'm going to do. I'm going to crack
and open a prostitute and do a couple of lines
of coca.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Utiful enough and we'll buy you. We'll buy your drink
at CRANDIX. Taper mate all the best.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I've got a mini I've got a mini top of Springles.
I think that's sexy. That'll be twelve dollars, you know, thanks, Yeah, listen,
what a pleasure.
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