Jimmy Carr: The Best of Ultimate Gold Greatest Hits

When you sit down to watch a Jimmy Carr show, you know what you are in for. And boy does he deliver once again here with this 2019 stand-up comedy special.

Jimmy Carr is a hilarious comedian, no doubt about it. And I really enjoy his unfiltered, crude and in-your-face approach to the jokes, the contents of the material and the hecklers in the audience. There is no filter here, and that is what makes his comedy so wonderfully funny.

The show is a tour de force from start to end, just as every single of his shows are. And you either love or loathe this comedian. Jimmy Carr spews offensive jokes that ensures great laughs throughout the course of the 58 minutes that the show runs for, and I was brought to wholehearted laughs many times during the show.

If you enjoy Jimmy Carr's comedy, then you will definitely also enjoy the 2019 show "Jimmy Carr: The Best of Ultimate Gold Greatest Hits".

My rating of "Jimmy Carr: The Best of Ultimate Gold Greatest Hits" lands on a six out of ten stars.

I remember watching a documentary about the Smiths featuring a suitably chain smoking and etiolated rock journalist explaining how the band had sidestepped any censorship of the single 'Handsome Devil'. His theory was that owing to their apparent appearance of being bookish nerds, no one in the media (or otherwise) thought to check the lyrical content of said single. Had this track been written by any other band, this would have undoubtedly landed them in hot water! This is precisely the analogy I wish to draw in Jimmy Carr's set and that of other comedians.

Jimmy looks, sounds and undoubtedly is a very middle class, well dressed and educated man. However, his comedy is driven by ignoring social convention and political correctness in favour of jokes that shock you and make you laugh (in equal measure), but also have you questioning whether you are a 'good person' I can think of other comedians that have been hauled over the coals for lesser misdemeanours...

That said and having seen Jimmy live (c.2007), I can say this set is as good as you can get watching him from home. To truly experience the raw, uncensored eloquence of the lead lined velvet packaged glove that is Jimmy's comedy you have to go to see a show. Laughs abound however, just be prepared for the self-recrimination!

This one was quite flat. Jimmy did his little repressed "I can't help but laugh at my own jokes" thing a few time and it seemed really calculated and scripted. It was more a run through of material than a great performance, and it felt pedestrian, and that could well be the audiences fault, or the watchers fault, but it's most likely Jimmy's fault mostly. Just not as good as previous outings.

His one liners are funny but it's nothing but one liners. There is no story, no theme, no drama, nothing tying any of it together. It's just a non-stop fully automatic barrage of one liners. So it's funny at any one moment in time, but ultimately empty and hollow.

I had a bizarre reaction: even though I found ALL his material funny (and I wasn't at all offended by any of it), I was very, very bored. I even stopped and came back the next day, just 'to see.'

SAME response. So I just stopped halfway through.

I can't explain it. Very weird. I'll probably never watch him again.