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Distraction and Your Face or Mine?, two game programs on Channel 4, were presented by Carr. For Channel 4, he hosted the 100s series of shows, including 100 Worst Pop Records, 100 Worst Britons, 100 Greatest Cartoon Characters, 100 Jimmy Carr Lookalikes, and 100 Scary Moments.

Carr presented a Distraction American edition for Comedy Central from 2004 through 2006. Additionally, he was put forward for the 2006 Rose d’Or for Best Game Show Host. Each December, Carr broadcasts The Big Fat Quiz of the Year on Channel 4. The Big Fat Quiz of Everything special episodes that he has also hosted.

Carr served as the host of Channel 4’s A Comedy Roast, the first comedy roast show to air in Britain, in April 2010. He co-hosted Channel 4’s Alternative Election Night on May 6, 2010, alongside David Mitchell, Lauren Laverne, and Charlie Brooker. He reunited with the three hosts for 10 O’Clock Live, a humorous current events program on Channel 4 that debuted in January 2011.

Carr appeared as a guest presenter on two occasions of Sunday Night at the Palladium on ITV in 2014 and 2015. He presided over the Netflix comedy panel shows The Fix in 2018. Carr served as the presenter of the Comedy Central series Roast Battle from 2018 to 2020.

Carr is a regular guest and interviewer on Loose Ends (BBC Radio 4) and The Fred MacAulay Show (BBC Radio Scotland). In January 2005, Carr hosted It’s Been a Terrible Year, a comedy review of 2004, on BBC Radio 2. Until July 2006, he had a Sunday-morning radio show on Xfm with comedian Iain Morris.

With a one-off podcast titled Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle: Meet the Comedians from at least 2010, Carr has made numerous appearances on podcasts over the years.

During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Carr’s podcast appearances increased significantly. Among the most recent ones during this time were The Betoota Advocate Podcast, You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes, The Comedian’s Comedian, The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, and Dane Baptiste Questions Everything.

Carr doesn’t take more than five weeks off between stand-up tours, which he performs nonstop for the most of the year. In 2003, he had already sold out two days’ worth of performances of his show Charm Offensive at the Edinburgh Festival.

He started the Gag Reflex tour in August 2006, for which he received the 2006 British Comedy Award for “Best Live Stand-Up.” In November 2007, he issued Jimmy Carr: Comedian, his third DVD.

On February 3, 2007, Second Life concurrently aired Carr’s performance in front of 50 people in London. Jimmy Carr: Making People Laugh, Carr’s sixth Live DVD, was released on November 8th, 2010. Before touring the UK, Carr’s Laughter Therapy tour from 2010 to 2011 began with a run at the Edinburgh Festival.

The Naked Jape: Uncovering the Hidden World of Jokes, a book by Carr and Lucy Greeves on the background and philosophy of joke telling, was published in 2006. A memoir and self-help book called Before & Laughter was published in December 2021.