Jimmy Carr plays two shows of his new one-liner tour Killing Jokes at the Hackney Empire, the Frank Matcham music hall on Mare Street.
Jimmy Carr, the 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown host and one-liner comedian, plays Killing Jokes at the Hackney Empire on Thursday 6 May 2027. He plays an early and a late show that night.
Born in Isleworth in 1972, Carr studied at Cambridge and worked at Shell before he tried comedy. His first stand-up, unpaid, came at the Tut ’n’ Shive, an Islington pub, in December 1999.
From 2000 to 2003 he played the London clubs, among them Up The Creek and the Banana Cabaret. His first Edinburgh Fringe run, in 2001, was the show Rubbernecker with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
Killing Jokes is a new hour of fast, dark one-liners. He has played his shows in more than 50 countries and recorded 13 specials.
Frank Matcham designed the Empire as a music hall, and it opened in December 1901. It served as a television studio from 1956 and a bingo hall from 1963 before it returned to live performance.