Jimmy Carr

I think write every day and then try stuff every night.

That seems like a pretty good system.

So it's just constant.

Constantly writing new stuff, trying new stuff.

Every night you'd write something?

Not every night, but most working days you'd be there.

So I get, like, at the end of the show, I'll get a piece of paper out.

At the very end...

And I'll try like 10 new jokes.

Really?

And some of them will work and some of them won't.

And then you're constantly kind of building the next show.

So you've got these kind of little building blocks of Lego of like, well, that's a joke that works and that's a joke that works and what would go well together and what's a good sequence.

So you're constantly, you're never looking at a blank page.

You're constantly looking at stuff and writing and trying to improve.

And I guess your hit rate gets a little bit better over the years, but not much.

I write so many jokes that don't work.

It's amazing.

And you can kind of never really second guess what the audience is going to do.

Sometimes you kind of think, that should work.