The sharp-suited and even sharper-tongued comic will be dropping in at The Dome on May 25 - and showgoers are set for a feast of fun, classic one-liners and plenty of near the knuckle, risque humour.

Freetime caught up with Jimmy ahead of his Doncaster date...

As the face of comedy on Channel 4, Jimmy Carr has become a regular fixture on our television screens fronting shows such as 8 out of 10 Cats and Distraction.

But he says his real love is his live gigs, which is just well as he embarks on another all new material mammoth twelve-month 140+ date tour, Repeat Offender. This comes hot on the heels of selling out 130 dates with Gag Reflex.

Repeat Offender launched at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival with eight nights at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) before setting off around the country and runs until July 2008. This will be Jimmy's biggest tour so far and he will be playing to well in excess of 200,000 fans across the UK and Ireland.

But, he warns his shows are not for the faint-hearted when on stage. His is certainly not a show for everyone.

"It's not for the easily ******* offended," he says. "It's not even for people that are difficult to offend. Essentially it's for people who are without a moral compass."

Despite having occasionally caused controversy with some of his more politically incorrect jokes, Jimmy makes no apologies for his material.

"In terms of taste and decency I think you can say pretty much anything in a comedy show. I think being politically correct is important if you are a doctor or a lawyer or a policeman or you work for social services or any of these important jobs in society where people are relying on you. But as a comic I say rude things and offensive things and it's not for everyone."

So what can people expect this year when they come to see one of Jimmy's shows?

"I tour every year and this year it is called Repeat Offender but for no real reason, and anyone who has come to see the show before will know that it's just a long list of jokes," he says.

"It's quite funny, but there's no real theme to it. There's no method in my madness. It's just 45 minutes in the first half, and then 45 minutes to an hour in the second half. It does exactly what it says on the tin for a comedy show, which I quite like."

But he loves touring.

"I think it's the best bit of my job because people like going out on Friday and Saturday. Wherever you are in the country - Weston-Super-Mare on a Tuesday night - it's difficult to get people out. They are thinking: 'Hang on, CSI:Miami is on. What you talking about? I'm not going out'.

"So it's nice to go out when people are out in a good mood on a Friday night. They've got out of work they've had a few drinks they are going to a show. Saturday is the same. They are really fun days to do it.

There are a few Sundays in there, and again Sundays are great. You've only got to be funnier than Heartbeat. Nothing to beat on a Sunday night."

He continues: "Gigging in the UK is weird because you go to towns that you know, or sometimes you go to towns that you've only heard of on the news or watching TV. Before I did comedy I had never spent any time in Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Swansea, Telford, Liverpool, Newcastle, Carlisle - all these towns around the country that I'd never spent any time in and now you spend a day there every year and you get to know it."

After his show, Jimmy likes to meet his audience. This means that as well as returning to familiar towns and venues, Jimmy has also started recognising some of the regular faces who come to see him.

"When you meet people after a gig, you often meet the same people two years in a row and bizarrely you kind of remember some of them. It's like "Oh, hello. Been well?" Or the heckler from last year heckles again. It's quite a nice thing."
It was at a gig in Belfast that he received his most bizarre heckle.

"A cool audience. I walked on and people said '**** off'. I went: 'Hang on. You've paid to see me. This is crazy'. And they went: 'Well we're quite aggressive'. They were a great audience."

Jimmy is known to be one of the hardest working comedians on the circuit and last year saw the release of his third stand-up DVD Comedian. This latest offering is a combination of Jimmy's last two tours, Gag Reflex and Off the Telly and contains different material to the new tour Repeat Offender.

"The best thing you can do with a comedy DVD is invite three or four mates over, get a pizza and some drinks and watch it. It's a great night. There's no substitute for having other people around you. It's weird how social laughter is. You laugh with other people."

Analysing comedy isn't very rock and roll either. And comedy is, after all, supposed to be the new rock and roll... isn't it?

"Yeah," says Jimmy. "I'm like a rock and roll star with a fat face that people laugh at."

Then he thinks for a bit."Not that rock and roll."