Jimmy Carr, the host of The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, played his tour Laughs Funny at The O2 arena, part of his first arena tour of the UK and Ireland.
Jimmy Carr, the host of The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, played his tour Laughs Funny at The O2 arena in North Greenwich on Wednesday 17 December 2025.
Born in Isleworth in 1972 to Irish parents, Carr grew up in the Buckinghamshire village of Farnham Common. He read social and political sciences at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and graduated with a first in 1994.
He then worked in marketing at Shell. He took voluntary redundancy in January 2000 and played his first paid stand-up gig later that month.
Television made his deadpan one-liners famous. He presented 8 Out of 10 Cats from 2005 to 2021, and has hosted 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown since 2012.
His previous tour, Terribly Funny, sold more than a million tickets in 50 countries, and its Netflix recording, Natural Born Killer, was released in 2024. Laughs Funny was the first time he toured arenas in the UK and Ireland.