Jimmy Carr

No, but I was there around the same time as Dan Mazur and Sacha Baron Cohen and that crew, yeah.

Yeah.

So I knew a few of those guys.

They were fun.

I really hadn't given it enough thought.

And I think we don't spend enough time on, like careers advisors are the worst people in the world, right?

Because it's a guy that ended up being a careers advisor.

So by dint of that, you go, well, this guy shouldn't be giving anyone advice.

This guy's a fucking idiot.

I think careers advisor should be a bit like jury service.

I think, you know, you should get a letter in the post.

I've got to go and speak to 18-year-olds for three hours.

Fuck.

And then you have to go and talk to them and go, okay, well, here's the risk I took.

What do you want to do in life and what are you willing to sacrifice to be a person that you admire?

What are you willing to give up?

I took it very seriously because from the off... You had a bit of money, you got your redundancy or whatever.

Yeah, I had like a year's float.

I was able to kind of sustain myself and I viewed it like...

I think if I'd done it straight from college, I might have thought this is a childish thing and I need to grow up and get a proper job.