Jimmy Carr

And sometimes it's serious.

Sometimes there's like a serious interaction.

Sometimes it's like it's combative.

Sometimes it's like there's a big difference between someone heckling, joining in at the show.

Heckling means we need kind of separate terms because heckling feels like, especially in America, people don't want to join in because they think they've been told in clubs, don't talk, don't join in.

He's doing his act and you're watching the act.

And I'm very much sing along.

Play with me.

Fine.

It's very, very clear when I'm performing jokes in the show and when it's like, yeah, join in.

Have fun.

Yeah, I think that's the fun of it, is the improv stuff.

It's like asking a magician to do real magic.

Everyone's suspending disbelief.

So for the first 20 minutes when I go out for the big shows, I'll do 20 minutes of just...

probably four jokes a minute, four big laughs a minute is what you're solving for.

And you're absolutely beating people over the head.

And they're memorised.

You're trying to get them to a step.

And everyone knows this is pre-prepared material.