Jimmy Carr

Have you ever lost work over a joke?

Who knows?

I suppose it's that thing of going, how much more successful could I be were I to cut out the 10% most offensive stuff?

Could have been a bigger mainstream hit.

Yeah, probably.

But I don't want to be a grifter.

I don't want to sell you something that I wouldn't buy myself.

If I'm not for me, who is?

Well, I wanted a celeb biography and I kind of went, I really don't care about that.

Yeah, there's a few kind of bits in there.

But I mean, it's really, I kind of, I thought it was...

The idea of doing a sort of self-help book for people that wouldn't necessarily read a self-help book.

It's when your pancreas stops working.

It's a slightly different thing.

But yeah, that's pretty, that was pretty, it's a lot.

Yeah, so we were in a very close relationship and you don't know what normal is.

Partly because your dad was gone, do you think?

Yeah, emotionally absent, certainly.

You don't know what normal is, right, as a kid.

It's your house is your house.