"Quote of the day.."

I was reminded today of a personal favourite historical quote..

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself - Francis Bacon.

Jimmy Carr - Offender

Jimmy Carr was spot on! Very enjoyable indeed.

There are two things I like about his stand-up style and material.
Firstly - like Ricky Gervais - he makes you laugh instinctively and then question whether or not you should be laughing.. I don't like to get too caught up in political correctness in comedy and Jimmy Carr makes very few concessions in this regard. Cleverly, he often makes tacit references towards contentious areas of 'comedy' but rarely does it to offend - he more appeals to your darker humour and rouses an otherwise socially-dormant humour which so many of us have.

Secondly, I like his word-play comedy. I wish I had a better memory that I could quote a few examples here but I'm sure those of you familiar with his work will know what I mean.

Anyway - I thoroughly recommend it.