Bill is starting to take down his new material much like Jimmy Carr did when he was starting to get really popular.
Replaced with a shorter version of the same bit. Will keep on looking for the full length.

I take it this is the first time you've heard Jimmy Carr's laugh?

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That was a shit opening joke from Carr. Such an overrated comedian.

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I'm curious how the re-telling is going.... Carr had some incredibly nuanced timing being utilized to make that joke be as funny as it was. Have you captured it? Or does it not matter as much as I think it does?

Field report! Field report please!

That first joke by Carr has been floating around for years. I wonder if it's his, or if he just lifts jokes sometimes.

Jimmy Carr won this video by far.

Big fan of Jim Jeffries' comedy. He has a TV show called Legit premiering on FX in a couple of weeks.

Anyone know what that British show is that they had 2 clips of and looked like the stage of Whose Line is it Anyway? Looks like a show I might like to watch.

... and they say there's safety in numbers.

(I wish this was original, but it's one of Jimmy Carr's most offensive ones)

Dead?

http://videosift.com/video/Jimmy-Carrs-Muslim-Friend

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You have deceived me!!!! I thought this was going to be a video about Jimmy Carrs' penis.

Interaction with the audience is a big part of Carr's stand-up, and the basis of the interaction is that Carr is quicker and wittier than the audience members. People who go to his show deliberately heckle him just to see him tear them to shreds. That part of Carr's on-stage persona is very much the sort of wise-cracking "my-knob-is-bigger-than-yours" thing that Fry attributes to American comedy.

I also don't think the self-deprecating "hapless loser" style of comedy is a new thing in America. Self-deprecation has always been a big part of Jewish comedy (Woody Allen is a good example), which has been central to the American comic tradition. Besides that, I already mentioned Lucille Ball, who certainly isn't a recent phenomenon. You can add the Three Stooges to that list. Also Phyllis Diller and (more recently) Chris Farley.

It might be true that self-deprecating humor is more common in British comedy, but it has been a big enough part of American comedy that I find it a little misleading to characterize it as a specifically British trait.

I don't think that. I think that he is spot on, but out of date and talking in general terms. The things that make those American comics great is how they are so much different from what American comics used to be and how they used to be appreciated. And by the way, as an English person, I too think Louis CK is the best out there. Also, I really don't know how you categorise Jimmy Carr in that way, would you care to explain?