Jimmy Carr gets intimate

Last night, I took two of my American friends to see Jimmy Carr. A bit of a risk, given his style of humour isn't particularly suited to the easily offended (or the difficultly offended - as Mr Carr himself admitted.) But they both liked it, laughed a lot, cringed even more.

The show itself was in a small theatre on Barrow Street in the West Village and Jimmy isn't really that famous over here, so in his opening night crowd there were about 40 of us which meant the show had a very personal feel to it - perhaps a little too personal at times. But another admission from the comic "I'm very famous somewhere else" set the scene for a very enjoyable night of comedy.