Films like Jimmy Carr: Funny Business.

Jimmy Carr: Funny Business (2016) reads as Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / tv-movie, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Jim Jefferies: Freedumb (2016) poster
1. Jim Jefferies: Freedumb2016

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Layover (2017) poster
2. The Layover2017

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ricky Gervais: Out of England 2 (2010) poster
3. Ricky Gervais: Out of England 22010

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ricky Gervais: SuperNature (2022) poster
4. Ricky Gervais: SuperNature2022

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Virginity Hit (2010) poster
5. The Virginity Hit2010

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ricky Gervais: Humanity (2018) poster
6. Ricky Gervais: Humanity2018

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Big Bad Wolf (2013) poster
7. The Big Bad Wolf2013

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Amy Schumer: The Leather Special (2017) poster
8. Amy Schumer: The Leather Special2017

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bill Burr: Live at Red Rocks (2022) poster
9. Bill Burr: Live at Red Rocks2022

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Pyaar Ka Punchnama (2011) poster
10. Pyaar Ka Punchnama2011

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Fastlife (2014) poster
11. Fastlife2014

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ricky Gervais: Armageddon (2023) poster
12. Ricky Gervais: Armageddon2023

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Jimmy Carr: Funny Business’s neighbours — where are yours?

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