Big Fat Quiz: Best Bits: Ultimate Shocks
10:00 pm - 11:05 pm, Friday, July 24 on Channel 4 (4)
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Ultimate Shocks
Season 2, Episode 2
Jimmy Carr presents shocking, surprising and scandalous moments from the Big Fat Quiz archive, featuring Miranda Hart, David Mitchell, Rob Beckett, Sue Perkins, Romesh Ranganathan, Michelle Wolf, Mo Gilligan, Sarah Millican, Nish Kumar, Rob Brydon, Roisin Conaty and Aisling Bea
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Jimmy Carr
(Presenter)
Born:
September 15, 1972
in
Slough
Best Known For:
His stand-up comedy
Early-life:
James Anthony Patrick Carr was born in Slough on September 15, 1972, one of three sons of Irish immigrants. His parents split in 1994, though the marriage didn't end until the death of his mother in 2001. Jimmy did well at school and studied political science at Cambridge before moving into advertising. He landed a job in the marketing department of Shell Oil, but felt unfulfilled. When the company offered him voluntary redundancy, he took it, and decided to pursue a career in comedy.
Career:
Carr began performing on the stand-up circuit, doing up to 300 shows a year for three years, before taking his act to the Edinburgh festival in 2002. This brought him to the attention of TV bosses, and before long he was presenting series such as Your Face or Mine and Distraction. Since then, he's rarely been off TVscreens, hosting the first run of the Friday Night Project, 8 Out of 10 Cats and numerous Channel 4 list shows. He's also made a move into acting, appearing in Alien Autopsy, Confetti, Stormbreaker and Telstar. He is one of Britain's busiest comics and his DVDs are big sellers.
Quote:
'I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand.'
Trivia:
In February 2007, Carr was the first major comedian to perform in the virtual reality world Second Life.
Tom Barrett
(Executive producer)
Sam Martin
(Producer)
