A kid with dyslexia who couldn't read until he was ten. A first-class Cambridge graduate. A miserable oil-company marketing executive. Then, against all logic, one of the most successful and brutally dark comedians in the world. The trajectory of Jimmy Carr divides every rule of how a career is supposed to progress.

This deep dive pulls apart how Carr built his comedy empire from scratch, survived a national tax scandal that drew a Prime Minister's rebuke, and consistently dances on the razor's edge of acceptable humor. It also reveals the private grief and family estrangement beneath the deadpan persona.

• How an early midlife crisis, lost faith, and neuro-linguistic programming reprogrammed him into a comedy product
• His tactical international expansion, from Conan to the Comedy Store wall and the first British Netflix spe ...