Jimmy Carr: "There's A Crisis Going On With Men!"

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

April 15, 2024

Duration

1h 56m

Channel

The Diary of a CEO

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Jimmy Carr is an award-winning comedian, writer and TV host for shows including, ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats’, ‘Roast Battle’, and ‘Big Fat Quiz Of The Year’. 00:00 Intro 02:01 How Are You, Jimmy? 03:07 Every Single Person Has Life Dysmorphia 08:59 What Is the Point of All This Work? 12:35 What Is Our End Goal? 14:08 People Crave the Success Not the Journey 16:47 You Should Be Feeling Imposter Syndrome 18:45 I Entertained My Sick Mother 19:54 The Unmeasurable Stuff Is the Important One 24:29 Depression 25:46 Men's Mental Health 27:30 What Is It to Be a Man 33:25 Losing My Religion 33:52 How Do You Deal with Grief in Your Life? 35:19 The Passing of Sean Lock 38:27 Business Is Life 39:12 The Issue Is Young People Are Not Given Enough Agency 41:52 How Comedy Teaches You to Be a Good Communicator 45:06 The Importance of Taking Risks 52:38 How To Deal with Rejection 55:31 Knowing Who You Are & What You Want to Do 58:44 Is It Motivation, Luck or Talent? 01:02:14 Being Cancelled 01:06:12 Would You Erase Your Worst Moments? 01:15:26 Artificial Intelligence 01:26:37 Self Expression 01:30:51 Jimmy's Eating Disorder 01:35:31 Advice to Younger People 01:38:25 Why You Should Sweat the Small Stuff 01:42:45 Having Confidence 01:43:40 Netflix Special 01:46:09 Dave Chapelle Attack 01:50:38 What Would You Tell Your Kids? You can watch Jimmy’s new Netflix stand-up special, ’Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer’, out on the 16th April 2024. You can purchase tickets for Jimmy’s brand-new international tour, ’Jimmy Carr: Laughs Funny’, here: https://bit.ly/49u9iex Follow Jimmy: Twitter - https://bit.ly/4awtUEe Instagram - https://bit.ly/3PULKbt YouTube - https://bit.ly/3xrXsEc Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGq-a57w-aPwyi3pW7XLiHw/join Follow our Shorts channel for more content: https://www.youtube.com/@UCEvqPcb1lJsn07ok1QRr2kw My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Sponsors: Fiverr: https://www.fiverr.com/diary

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Steven Bartlett

  host

• Jimmy Carr

  guest

• Narrator

  other

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Diary of a CEO, featuring Steven Bartlett and Jimmy Carr, Jimmy Carr: "There's A Crisis Going On With Men!" explores jimmy Carr Confronts Men’s Crisis, Gratitude, Ambition, and Cancel Culture Jimmy Carr joins Stephen Bartlett to explore modern masculinity, agency, and the mounting crisis facing young men, interweaving this with his own journey through comedy, success, grief, and cancel culture. He argues that gratitude, voluntary hardship, and embracing imposter syndrome are essential antidotes to entitlement, comfort addiction, and nihilism. The conversation ranges from religion, fatherhood, mortality, and grief to practical frameworks for building character, managing anxiety, and making high-stakes career pivots. Carr also breaks down communication craft, the ethics of offense, and why comedy and long-form conversation are filling a vacuum once occupied by religion and community.

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