Certified funny man Jimmy Carr, whose brand of darkly deviant humour you might know from his regular stints as a panellist on QI / the host of UK panel show 8 Out Of 10 Cats, is bringing his witty one-liners Down Under next January, when he hits the Australian road on his ‘Funny Business‘ stand-up tour.
*SCREAMS*
Which means in just over eight weeks, this face could be staring down at you from centre-stage just *daring* you to sass him:
FYI this is what’ll happen if you do:
“It takes a lot to embarrass an Australian, but the fact that he embarrassed a nation – I think a round of applause for the man, well done.”
In preparation for his trip Down Under, PEDESTRIAN.TV took one for Australia and brushed the comedian up on our local dialect, because Cambridge might have courses in political science and cosmology, but teach the difference between mate, maaaate and cunt, they do not.
So we asked him to define some of our true-fukken-blue Aussie slang:
A durry: “Is it a fucking idiot? It sounds like a good term for an idiot.”
Get maggot: “It sounds drunk. I think someone might have said it in Snowtown. Incidentally, Snowtown is one of the worst tourist information films I’ve ever seen.”
Pinga: “Is it a name for a gentlemen’s situation?” Look possibly, but it depends on what kind of situation the gentlemen is in, namely, is he about to eat a bunch of them?
Have a root: “That’s fucking, right? I know the term root. I mean – there hasn’t been a lot of romantic fiction out of Australia, it’s a very direct culture. They have a thing in the UK where they do awards every year for badly written sex scenes in books. It’s quite good, but they should do that in Australia, because I imagine the love scene in a romantic novel in Australian is “Aw, yeah, do you want a rootin’?”
Rig: “I think it’s going to be a term for someone’s junk. I’m now going to refer to my genitals as my rig.”
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ P.TV explains ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ P.TV: Do the curtains match the drapes? ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
And with that visual of Jimmy Carr’s genitals, mates, we’ll leave you with the link to book tickets to his Funny Business tour: www.abpresents.com.au.
Brisbane: January 14, 15, 16 at City Hall
Canberra: January 17 at Canberra Theatre (Book at Canberra Box Office on 6275 2700)
Sydney: January 18, 19, 20, 21 at State Theatre,
Newcastle: January 24 at Civic Theatre
Melbourne: January 25, 26 at Hamer Hall
Geelong: January 29 at Costa Hall
Adelaide: January 30 at Thebarton Theatre
Perth: January 3, 4 at Riverside Theatre.
BONUS MATERIAL: 25 seconds of his laugh, which is self-described as like “a goose getting finger-blasted“:
Lead image: supplied.
