Jimmy Carr Jimmy Carr James Anthony Patrick Carr (born 15 September 1972) is an English stand-up comedian, presenter, writer, and actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship. He is known for his deadpan delivery, dark humour, and heckler interaction. Carr moved to a career in comedy in 2000. After becoming established as a stand-up comedian, Carr began to appear in a number of Channel 4 television shows, becoming the host of the panel show "8 Out of 10 Cats", "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown" and also "The Big Fat Quiz of the Year", a comedy panel show that airs
Laugh-Out-Loud Cats by "A. Koford", his grandfather Aloysius Gamaliel Koford, for a short-lived syndicated newspaper comic strip that started in 1912. Koford has pointed to a number of influences on the series (or rather, "cultural touchstones [that] show evidence of being influenced by my great-grandfather's handiwork", as he puts it): the 1973 road movie "Paper Moon" and the 1941 comedy film "Sullivan's Travels", the character design from the 1910s comic strip "Old Doc Yak" by Sidney Smith, the cartooning style of Hank Ketcham and Al Wiseman from "Dennis the Menace", and the work of cartoonist B. Kliban. Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Laugh-Out-Loud Cats is