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Louis Theroux

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The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

Nevertheless...

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

it gets repeated quite a bit and is sometimes attributed to Sigmund Freud.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

And it does bear on, I suppose, an idea of Freud's, which is that all jokes carry some sort of emotional charge and that they are giving vent to something forbidden, that there's a tension release.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

So they're not benign or pallid expressions of some sort of neutral language game.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

that they are actually a truthful expression of some deeper sense of conflict or turmoil or anxiety.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

So there you are.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

I made that up, and there's more stuff on the teleprompter, whatever we're calling that thing.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

I think I said it better than Freud.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

Jimmy said, the world is harems and peepholes.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

Harims are obviously gatherings of women, stables of women, often at the courts of Ottoman sultans that were at their disposal.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

Peepholes are small holes through which you peep.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

And that's a metaphor, I think, for social media.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

So many peepholes singing.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

And that will be featured on the album.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

We've done that joke.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

It was Blur.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

You got that, Park Life.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

All the peepholes, harems and peepholes.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

I just freestyled that.

The Louis Theroux Podcast
S6 EP8: Jimmy Carr discusses the secret to his comedy, being a late bloomer, and controversial stand-up gigs

We don't even write this shit down.