This Day In History

14 September: Jimmy Carr born!

Funnily enough (see what we did there?!), Jimmy Carr didn't have much of an interest in comedy to begin with. Graduating from Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge with a 2:1 degree in Political Sciences, he worked as a marketing executive for Shell in the late 1990's.

Whilst working at JC Productions with his father, Carr made his first television pilot / short film at Pinewood starring Craig Charles, Roy Dotrice and himself. The mockumentary, The Colour of Funny was essentially a vanity project for him.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Now he's a writer, performer and presenter, all in various forms of media.

Enjoy some of Carr at his best, with this clip of Jimmy Carr: Live at the Apollo!