Comedy Central UK is leaning into internet culture with a sharp-edged twist, greenlighting a full series of Jimmy Carr’s Am I The A**hole?, an eight-part panel show riffing off Reddit’s wildly popular AITA subreddit.
The commission, ordered to series after a pilot fronted by Rob Beckett earlier this year, will see Carr take the reins as host, flanked by team captains GK Barry and Jamali Maddix alongside a rotating lineup of comics. Each episode will put real submissions from the r/AmITheAsshole community under the microscope, with the panel weighing in on the kind of petty disputes, relationship flare-ups, and social standoffs that have fueled the subreddit’s 24-million-strong global following.
Produced by Tuesday’s Child, the show marks a push by Comedy Central UK to tap into viral IP with built-in audience awareness—part of a broader strategy to refresh its unscripted slate with culturally fluent formats. The adaptation is executive produced by Steph Harris for Tuesday’s Child, Iestyn Barker for Comedy Central UK, and Marc Beaulac, who founded the original Reddit thread.
Carr, no stranger to high-wire comedy, is expected to bring his trademark bite to the series, jokingly calling himself the channel’s “Proctologist in Residence.” Tuesday’s Child is packaging the show as “bucketloads of brutally honest, hilarious a**holery,” with Barker describing it as “no-holds-barred” in tone.
Jimmy Carr’s Am I The A**hole? is slated to air later this year on Comedy Central UK.
