Jimmy Carr: The Best of Ultimate Gold Greatest Hits

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.

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.

Classic Jimmy Carr jokes so no problem with the material, it's him giving some of his best material from the past.

The thing I can't get over is the canned laughter track they've put after every joke and the endless camera cuts to different angles.

Every now and then it cuts to one of a few stock wide or rear angles showing the audience (not laughing, incidentally, while the laughter track is at full pelt).

Just really bizarre for a comedy special, I think he must have delivered this act to an empty theatre to get the close ups and rotating camera angles they used, then cut in some from the same named tour and smashed it together with a laugh track as fake as his.

Normally a fan but had to turn this off.

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.

If you like dark and non-PC humor, you're in for the best time. Hilarious, very witty, and every joke lands.