Jimmy Carr Net Worth 2024

What is Jimmy Carr’s  Net Worth?

Jimmy Carr is a stand-up comedian, actor, tv host, author and producer. Jimmy Carr’s net worth is $35 million. Carr is legendary for his deadpan model of humor, which has translated into an excellent profitable profession as a TV host and comedian. He achieved early success internet hosting sport reveals for Channel 4, together with “Distraction” (2003–2004) and “Your Face or Mine?” (2002–2003). Jimmy has hosted the panel reveals “8 out of 10 Cats” (2005–current) and “The Big Fat Quiz of the Year” (2004–current), and as an actor, he has appeared within the movies “Alien Autopsy” (2006), “Confetti” (2006), “Stormbreaker” (2006), “I Want Candy” (2007), “Telstar” (2009), and “The Comedian’s Guide to Survival” (2016). Carr has launched into quite a few stand-up comedy excursions and has launched 10 comedy specials, lots of which he produced. In 2006, he revealed the guide “The Naked Jape: Uncovering The Hidden World Of Jokes.”

Early Life

Jimmy Carr was born James Anthony Patrick Carr on September 15, 1972, in Hounslow, London, England. He grew up in Farnham Common, South Buckinghamshire, with mom Nora, father Jim (an accountant/treasurer), and two brothers. Jimmy’s mother and father separated within the mid-Nineties, however they by no means divorced, and sadly, Nora handed away in 2001. Carr attended Farnham Common School, Burnham Grammar School, and Royal Grammar School, and after he did nicely on the  GCE Advanced Level exams, he studied political science and social science at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating with First Class Honours in 1994. After commencement, Jimmy took a job within the advertising division at Shell, however since he wasn’t completely happy there, he took voluntary redundancy in early 2000. He took a course in neuro-linguistic programming that made him understand that his thoughts was holding him again, and he determined to pursue a profession as a comedian. Within a number of weeks, he carried out stand-up comedy for the primary time, and he received his first paid gig later the next month.

Television Career

Carr made his TV debut on “The 11 O’Clock Show” in 2000, and he appeared on “Countdown” a number of occasions in 2004. In 2003, he started internet hosting the “100” sequence on Channel 4, which included applications comparable to “100 Greatest Cartoon Characters” and “100 Scary Moments.” Jimmy hosted the sport present “Distraction” on Channel 4 from 2003 to 2004, then hosted the American model on Comedy Central from 2004 to 2006. He started presenting the panel present “8 Out of 10 Cats” on Channel 4 in 2005, and it later moved to More4, then E4. Carr has served as a presenter on “Live on the Apollo” (2007), “Commercial Breakdown” (2008), “Channel 4’s Alternative Election Night” (2010), “A Comedy Roast” (2010–2011), and “10 O’Clock Live” (2011–2013), and he narrated 10 episodes of Comedy Central’s “Drunk History” from 2015 to 2017. He returned to the community for the “Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe” in 2016 and “Roast Battle” in 2018, and he started internet hosting the comedy panel present “The Fix” on Netflix in 2018. Jimmy hosted “The Inbetweeners Fwends Reunited” in 2019 and “Back to the 2010s with Jimmy Carr” in 2020, and he was a panelist on the music sport present “I Can See Your Voice” in 2021. He has additionally appeared as a visitor on “Top Gear” (2004; 2006; 2013), “Celebrity Squares” (2015), “@midnight” (2016), “The Grand Tour” (2016), and “Room 101” (2018), and he has competed on a number of movie star editions of sport reveals, successful £1,000 for Variety Club on “The Chase,” £7,000 for the Blue Cross on “Tipping Point,” and £1,000 for the Elton John AIDS Foundation on “Benchmark.”

Stand-Up Comedy Career

Carr bought out a month of performances of his present “Charm Offensive” on the 2003 Edinburgh Festival, and in 2004, he launched the comedy particular “Live,” adopted by “Stand Up” in 2005. In 2006, his “Gag Reflex” tour earned him a British Comedy Award for Best Live Stand Up, then he launched the comedy specials “Comedian” (2007), “In Concert” (2008), and “Telling Jokes” (2009). Jimmy toured with the band the Killers in 2009 and launched his sixth comedy particular, “Making People Laugh,” in 2010. In 2011, he carried out on the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal and launched the particular “Being Funny,” which was adopted by “Laughing and Joking” (2013) and the Netflix specials “Funny Business” (2016) and “The Best Of, Ultimate, Gold, Greatest Hits” (2019). In 2007, Carr turned the primary main comedian to carry out within the on-line digital world of “Second Life.” In 2003, the “Observer” named him one in all British comedy’s 50 funniest acts, and in 2007, he was ranked #12 in a Channel 4 web site ballot of the 100 Greatest Stand Ups. In 2021, onbuy.com named Jimmy the funniest British comedian after conducting a scientific research.

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Radio Career

Jimmy has frequently appeared as an interviewer and visitor on BBC Radio 4’s “Loose Ends” and BBC Radio Scotland’s “The Fred MacAulay Show,” and he hosted “It’s Been a Terrible Year” on BBC Radio 2 in 2005. Carr co-hosted an Xfm radio present with fellow comedian Iain Morris till July 2006, and it featured segments comparable to “Goth Classics,” “Now That’s What I Call A Jukebox,” and “The Songs You Should Like and the Songs You Do Like (But You Like The Song You Should Like As Well).” In 2005, he appeared in two episodes of the “Flight of the Conchords” radio sequence on BBC Radio 2.

Personal Life

Jimmy has been in a relationship with Karoline Copping since 2001, they usually reside collectively in North London; Copping works as a commissioning editor for Channel 5. Carr has mentioned that he had “an early midlife disaster” at age 26 and misplaced his religion. He acknowledged in 2015, “As for being a Christian, sure, it appears ridiculous now, however I genuinely believed there was an enormous man within the sky who might grant needs. Writers like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins helped change my view, however I do not go on stage banging on about being an atheist … I’m only a man who tells jokes.” Jimmy underwent psychotherapy whereas he was going by his disaster, and he has since grow to be certified as a therapist. In June 2020, Carr revealed that he had a hair transplant throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, saying “My hair was socially distancing from my brow and I’d had sufficient of it.” Around that point, he additionally obtained Botox therapies and had dental work, getting “each tooth in [his] head accomplished in a single sitting.”

In 2012, it was revealed that Jimmy had been concerned in a K2 tax avoidance scheme, after which–Prime Minister David Cameron acknowledged, “People work arduous, they pay their taxes, they save as much as go to one in all his reveals. They purchase the tickets. He is taking the cash from these tickets and he, so far as I can see, is placing all of that into some very dodgy tax avoiding schemes.” Carr pulled out of the scheme and apologized for his involvement, calling it “a horrible error of judgement.”

Awards and Nominations

Carr was named Funniest Man on the LAFTA Awards in 2005 and 2007, and he obtained the Best Stand Up award in 2004 and 2008. In 2002, “Time Out” named him Best Stand Up, and he earned a Perrier Award nomination. Jimmy received a Royal Television Society Award for Best On-Screen Newcomer in 2003, and he obtained a British Comedy Award for Best Live Stand Up in 2006. He has additionally earned two Rose D’Or Nominations for “Distraction,” Best Presenter in 2004 and Best Game Show in 2006.

Real Estate

In 2010, Carr paid £8.5million for a mansion in Primrose Hill, North London. He reportedly spent £1.5million to renovate the house.