Jimmy Carr

You could split test it.

I mean, I do two shows a night, so it's very easy to split test jokes.

Do you?

Yeah, so you sort of split test the gag and go, well, is it funny like that or funny like that?

Does it work like that?

Does it work like that?

Yeah, so you kind of, you just go, you're constantly sort of trying new stuff and going, okay, does that, is that, okay, what's better?

You're like a comedy boffin.

I don't know, probably quite a few.

No one in the States, but, you know, people in the UK.

Eight.

So, yeah, OK.

That's good, right?

It's good.

And he told them when he had it, which is kind of nice.

Yeah, but I think the way that these things happen is sometimes people that aren't in your audience get hold of a joke and then it becomes something else.

It becomes a statement that you made, not a joke.

So it gets decontextualized.

And there's a bit before I tell the joke and a bit after the joke where it's contextualised.

But if you clip it up in the right way, you can cause a controversy.