Em 02 de Novembro de 2006, Carr, junto ao seu amigo publicitário Lucy Greeves, lançou um livro chamado ''The Naked Jape'' (A versão Americana, re-intitulada ''Only Joking'', foi lançado no dia 21 de Setembro de 2006), uma discução sobre a arte e a história da piada. Incluindo uma seleção das melhores 400 piadas já contadas.
==Crítica (traduzindo)==
==Criticism==
Detractors of Carr's humour include [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician [[Ann Widdecombe]], who — following an appearance with him on [[BBC One]] panel show ''[[Have I Got News For You]]'' — wrote in the ''[[Daily Express]]'' that "His idea of wit is a barrage of filth and the sort of humour most men grow out of in their teens".<ref name="Carr's filth">{{cite news |title=Widdecombe disgusted by Carr's 'filth' |url=http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/mediamonkey/2007/11/widdecombe_disgusted_by_carrs.html |work=mediamonkey |publisher=''[[Guardian Unlimited]]'' |date=2007-11-08|accessdate=2007-11-30 | location=London}}</ref>
VeteranO comediancomediante veterano [[Arthur Smith (comediancomediante)|Arthur Smith]] wascitou quoted in theno ''[[Sunday Mirror]]'' inem 2005 as sayingdizendo "HeEle hastem auma terribleatuação actterrível. There I've saidDisse itisso ande alreadyjá Ime feelsinto bettermelhor".<ref>Accessed at findarticles.com {{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20051204/ai_n15905217/|title=Jimmy Carr's dad to sue British CPS|last=Quigley|first=Maeve|date=2005-12-04|publisher=Sunday Mirror|accessdate=2009-07-20}}</ref> Smith haspassou gonea on to criticisecriticar Carr onem otheroutras occasionsocasiões. InEm auma 2009entrevista interviewcom with ''"[[The Times]]''" heem said2009 ele disse: "HeEle (Carr) makesfaz jokespiadas likecomo littlepequenos clocksrelógios. HeEle não tem hasinteresse no interestcontexto inou theirsignificado, contextsó orse meaning,interessa onlyque that theyisso cause anuma explosionexplosão ofde laughterrisadas. IEu wantquero aque comedianum tocomediante havetenha aum hinterlandinterior. TheOs bestmelhores comedianscomediantes aretem interestedinteresse inem jazz, poetrypoesia, ande theo worldmundo".<ref>[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/article6160097.ece Arthur Smith, the comic who would be Daphne Fairfax]</ref>
InEm OctoberOutubro de 2009, Carr receivedrecebeu criticismcríticas fromde severalvários Sundayjornais tabloidde newspaperstablóides forde aDomingo jokepor hecausa madede aboutuma Britishpiada soldiersque whoele hadfez lostsobre limbsos insoldados battlebritânicos inque Iraqperderam andmembros do corpo em guerra no Iraque e no AfghanistanAfeganistão.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6427618/Anger-over-Jimmy-Carrs-joke-about-war-amputees.html Anger over Jimmy Carr's joke about war amputees]</ref> TheOs newspapersjornais themselvesem camesi underforam criticismcriticados forpor falselyfalsa claimingalegação thede audienceque reactedo withpúblico stunnedreagiu silencecom whenum thesilêncio jokeatordoado wasquando a piada foi tolddita.<ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dominic-lawson/dominic-lawson-jimmy-carr-and-the-pomposity-of-those-professing-outrage-1809954.html Dominic Lawson: Jimmy Carr and the pomposity of those professing outrage]</ref> Carr himselfdefendeu hasa defendedpiada the joke ascomo "totallytotalmente acceptableaceitável" inem anuma interview withentrevista com''[[The Guardian]]'', inna whichqual theo interviewerentrevistador notednotou hissuas tendenciestendências toa makefazer jokespiadas aboutsobre disabilitiesdeficiência ande rapeestupro.<ref>{{cite news |title= Jimmy Carr: 'I thought my Paralympics joke was totally acceptable' |author= Stephen Moss |newspaper= The Guardian |date= 5 November 2009 |url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/nov/05/jimmy-carr-paralympics-joke |accessdate= 24 December 2009 | location=London}}</ref> Carr wouldiria gopara ondescrever tosua describeentrevista thecom interview,o jornalista withdo ''Guardian'' journalist, Stephen Moss", inna thesessão paper'sG2 G2do sectionjornal, onna hissua conta do [[Twitter]] account as aboutcomo "[selling]vendendo mymeu DVD topara thea elite [[liberal elite]]"."<ref>{{cite web |url= http://twitter.com/jimmycarr/status/5448888953 |title= G2 in The Guardian today – did an interview with Stephen Moss (nice fellow) to sell my DVD to the liberal elite. |author= Jimmy Carr |date= 5 November 2009 |work= |publisher= Twitter |accessdate=23 December 2009}}</ref>
