Skip to content
PMTPMT DB
Void
Jimmy CarrJimmy Carr

Comedians should never apologize for a joke

You never have to apologize for a joke. Just on policy, you go, well, I was standing on stage saying that to make people laugh. I'm a drug dealer is what I do for a living. I'm trying to get people [endorphins].

This is a subjective ethical and professional stance within the comedy industry.

More from this episode

View episode
Win
Mar 13, 2019
#17781
Big CatBig Cat

The Giants are tanking a year too late

They're tanking a year too late from what they... Like, last year they should have, like you said, not given... they trotted out Eli Manning's corpse. You then didn't lose enough to be the number one pick this year and get Kyler Murray, so then you had to trade Odell Beckham to then get the picks so that you could then trade up for the number one pick that you could have had if you had just done what everyone said, just lose.

The Giants finished 4-12 in 2019 and did indeed enter a multi-year rebuild that saw Eli Manning benched for Daniel Jones.
Loss
Mar 13, 2019
#17780
Big CatBig Cat

The Cleveland Browns will win the AFC North

The Browns are the best team in the AFC North. Yeah, they are the best team in the AFC North. The Ravens watched part of their defense walk out. The Bengals are the Bengals. The Browns are going to win the AFC North.

The Ravens finished 14-2 and won the AFC North easily; the Browns finished 6-10 and missed the playoffs.
Win
Mar 13, 2019
#28403
Big CatBig Cat

The Jets will sign Le'Veon Bell

We basically know where everyone's signing except Le'Veon Bell. We should each say one team. I'm taking Jets.

Le'Veon Bell signed a 4-year, $52.5 million contract with the New York Jets shortly after this episode aired.

More from Jimmy Carr

View profile
Void
Jimmy CarrJimmy Carr

No joke is truly offensive because the intent of a joke makes it benign

There's a big kind of intellectual theory around this about benign violation and the idea that no joke is offensive because it's a joke. Because as soon as you put it in that space where you go, okay, it's cancer... But as soon as you make a joke about it, you put it into a space where you go, it's benign. It's actually, it's okay, and it's got no power over us.

This is a subjective philosophical stance on humor theory.
Win
Jimmy CarrJimmy Carr

Laughter is older than language by a million years

I did a documentary for the BBC... about laughter. Laughter predates language by about a million years. It's a totally different part of the throat that we use to laugh. Laughter was essentially remote grooming.

Evolutionary biologists and anthropologists generally agree that the vocalization of laughter predates the development of complex language in human ancestors.
Void
Jimmy CarrJimmy Carr

Individualism is a relatively new and terrifying concept for human beings

We've never been more connected... And the reason podcasts, I think, are so huge is because people are desperate for conversation... We're built to live in tribes... The idea of individualism is comparatively new and terrifying. It just doesn't work for human beings. We feel incredibly alienated.

Subjective sociological observation.

Search

Search takes, episodes, and speakers