either he's that good at improvising or this has to be scripted. i'd love #1, but i have this feeling...

I don't think this is scripted, I just think he's an experienced comic who's quick witted. A lot of his live stuff seems to involve audience participation in some form or another. He seems to welcome hecklers and take great pleasure in using them for laughs. I think he's just good at this stuff, and that's a lot of his act.

>> ^conan:
either he's that good at improvising or this has to be scripted. i'd love #1, but i have this feeling...


It's real improve. One of his DVDs has bonus audio taken from a whole bunch of his shows featuring Jimmy ripping into random people in the audience like this. He does this all the time and is quite good at it.

He is brilliant at it. This is fantastic handling of an audience. While this wasn't heckling as such, it's a common thing 'audience talking during gig'.

And this was so perfectly handled... and with great eloquence. How often do you hear the word erroneous used when handling a heckler at a comedy gig.

No, not very often indeed

Why on earth would this be scripted? He's a good comic and you'd better know how to talk to people in that job.

Why on earth would you chat during a Jimmy Carr set? I'd sit up straight in perfect silence - the man is just too sharp!

>> ^kymbos:
Why on earth would you chat during a Jimmy Carr set? I'd sit up straight in perfect silence - the man is just too sharp!


I think I would end up hopping around in circles, thumping my chest, then flee whilst screeching at the top of my lungs. I'm just not sharp enough, nor willing to accept that he is better than me, so it would end up being a poo flinging fight in the end.

>> ^kymbos:
Why on earth would you chat during a Jimmy Carr set? I'd sit up straight in perfect silence - the man is just too sharp!


Trouble is, Jimmy Carr is so sharp that he would probably find some way to make fun of you event then!

This doesn't stand out to me as something that would need to be scripted. For a comedian like jimmy, this is pretty tame.

Has no one seen the clip of him talking about this exact thing in an interview (i.e. anatomy of a joke/two conflicting stories)? Not that this is scripted, but the man makes a science out of this kind of thing.

I don't think it's right to alienate audience members who made a faux pas, whether scripted or unscripted because then the rest of the audience gets the red in the face feeling of "will he make fun of me if I sneeze?"

He should speak to the audience and complain/joke about it, not directly at the one audience member who made the mistake because that makes everyone in the audience uncomfortable.

Not scripted. The guy is a unique improv genius. Look what he did with fridge magnet letters on the show QI: http://www.videosift.com/video/Jimmy-Carr-s-Amazing-Anagram-on-QI

damn you, chambers management
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