Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

by Jimmy Carr

‘If I could have any superpower I’d go for Cold War era Russia.’

A man goes for a job interview. The interviewer, impressed with his résumé, asks, ‘What’s your greatest weakness?’ He replies, ‘My greatest weakness is honesty. I’m just too honest.’ The interviewer says, ‘I’m not sure you could really call honesty a weakness.’ He replies, ‘I don’t give a fuck what you think.’

In Australia, they have a great turn of phrase, one of my favourites: you call a cunt ‘mate’ and you call your mates ‘cunts’.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Whenever two people share a laugh, they connect and trust is built.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS WASN’T AS GOOD AS I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE

Five per cent of life is what happens to you, 95 per cent of life is how you react to what happens.