Jimmy Carr

That's what I like.

I like stuff that's a bit transgressive.

And I suppose it goes to... I mean, I think at this point, if someone comes to one of my shows and gets offended, I'm like, wow.

You know, buyer beware.

If you buy tickets to a horror movie and then you complain you're scared...

I was too scared.

Whose fault's that, though?

And you kind of go, well, I tell quite edgy, transgressive jokes.

They make me laugh and they make the audience laugh.

And I think that thing about going in the world that we live in, the reason comedy is having a moment, which I think it is culturally, in the same way that music had a moment in the 70s and film had a moment in the 70s, was because it was people being authentic.

And that reflects society.

So people go, well, that's my sense of humour.

Your sense of humour is very, it's a very personal thing.

It's very much like your taste in food or your sexuality.

Some people like the spicy stuff and the BDSM and some people like it to be very mild and bland.

Great.

But it reflects something about you that's more you than how you present.

Like I love that thing when you get cognitive dissonance

in a show where people laugh at something and then there's kind of an intake of breath afterwards.

As long as it comes in the right order, as long as you get the big laugh first, that's the reflex, and then you get people going, oh, should I have laughed?