Before & Laughter

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He is a regular on all the top panel shows, including QI and A League Of Their Own , has performed as part of The Royal Variety Performance three times, and a judge on BBC1's I Can See Your Voice . Carr’s challenging upbringing and his present Hollywood life contextualise his suggestions and it is clear that a great deal of love and work has gone into the text. If you were in your mid 20s in the late 1990s, living with your family, no bills/mortgage and in a well paid job - would you say it was relatively easy or difficult to give up said job to pursue your dreams?

We mess up more times than we succeed but if we don't learn from the failures that we make we haven't learnt anything at all but in the failures that we make that's where we learn. I loathe self-help books, I judge people who read them to find solutions to their problems and I find them boring and utterly stupid, not that I have read many, or any. It’s very rapid, the stories are short but funny (with the one exception of the one about his mum) and the lessons that he’s learnt along the way.

Alas, my family took my dramatic readings as a cry for help, leading to an impromptu intervention where I became the unintentional star of my own tragicomedy. I really loved the fact that this book wasn’t a standard autobiography; the mix between biography and self-help book was both strange and awesome, and to be honest, I wouldn’t expect anything other than strange and awesome from Jimmy Carr.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Some of his thoughts were interesting but a little too much time spent preaching making it a bit tedious. If you fancy reading about what you could do, if you didn’t have a mortgage or lived in 2021 Britain this might be the book for you.

Critics of mass culture have a trick of weighing the worst of the present with the best of the past. He is a regular on all the top panel shows, including QI and A League Of Their Own, has performed as part of The Royal Variety Performance three times, and a judge on BBC1's I Can See Your Voice. The show opened up an entire collection of British comedy programs I promptly binged, and given the incestuous nature of the business, Carr had a role in many of them. But predictably this book is funny and the fact that it's based on a real person's experiences and not just bullshitty abstract dos and don'ts makes it sound normal and readable. This Mish mash of Jimmy's comedy and life hacks lightens your spirit and helps pass away a few hours in an entertaining way.

Reality is an illusion and feelings aren’t facts but the thing that messes is that the most facts that we don't learn from these ideas most of what happens to us isn't something that is 10% of what happens to us is the problem but 90% is how we respond to the problem and that’s what really matters. Which is a joke he repeats a lot on this book, and to my own detriment, I have to admit, it was well done every time.

Too little depth, too little of Jimmy's life and too little of things that interested me personally lol. Immense - after hearing Jimmy on The Diary of a CEO, I realised that he was a very intelligent guy and had a lot of share.