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Jimmy Carr

Date of birth: 15-09-1972

A former marketing executive for Shell, Jimmy Carr is one of the hardest-working comedians in the UK, and DVDs of his live shows now sell more than 150,000 copies each.

His first full-length show, Bare-Faced Ambition, was nominated for the Perrier in 2002; and he was named best stand-up at the Time Out Awards in 2003, and at the Laftas in 2004. At the same awards he was named ‘funniest man’ in 2005.

He won the Royal Television Society Award for best on-screen newcomer in 2003, and soon established himself one of the main faces of Channel 4, hosting game show Distraction, the first series of The Friday Night Project, three series of panel show 8 Out Of 10 Cats, and several specials such as The Big Fat End of Year Quiz and The Comedians’ Comedian.

Carr has also made headway in the US, performing four times on NBC’s Tonight With Jay Leno and three times on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien. He made a half-hour stand-up special for Comedy Central, and hosted two series of Distraction USA for the same network.

He has also appeared in the films Confetti, Alien Autopsy and Stormbreaker, all released in 2006; and has hosted a weekly radio show for London’s XFM.

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Damian Lewis joins Jimmy Carr’s Downton Abbey spoof

Shooting starts on Fackham Hall

Damian Lewis and Draco Malfoy actor Tom Felton have joined the cast of Jimmy Carr’s Downton Abbey spoof, Fackham Hall.

The period film – said to be in the vein of Airplane! and Monty Python – has been written by Jimmy Carr and his brother Patrick ask well as the Dawson Brothers, whose credits include Brian Butterfield’s live tour starring Peter Serafinowicz.

Shooting has started this week in the Wirral, with Variety reporting that Masters Of The Air star Ben Radcliffe has joined the previously announced Thomasin McKenzie, Katherine Waterston and Emma Laird.

Radcliffe will play loveable pickpocket Eric Noone, who lands a job at the titular country manor, where he has a forbidden romance with lady of the house Rose Davenport (McKenzie). When an unexpected murder occurs, Eric gets framed — leaving Rose and her family’s future perilously uncertain.

Lewis will play master of the house Lord Davenport while Felton is Archibald, Eric’s main romantic rival

Jimmy Carr, who originated the film, will also have a supporting role. It is being directed by Jim O’Hanlon, who has previously worked on Catastrophe, Trying and Inside No 9.

Last year O’Hanlon said: ‘Fackham Hall is that rarest of rare hen’s teeth – a genuinely funny, fiendishly clever period comedy which even on the page makes you snort your tea out of several orifices at once, whilst still making you care hugely for the young couple at the centre of all the madness.’

Published: 7 Nov 2024