I am 63 I live in Australia… I have been diving in the ocean all my adult life and even now still go spearfishing in open ocean every week and come home with a stunning catches of seafood. I love my life. Jimmy Carr’s words couldn’t be more true. Life is to be lived. It is short and precious. Bad choices results in bad outcomes… actions have consequences. Some fear dying Some fear living.
That line about Orwell being wrong is spot on. The modern world more closely represents Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - where people have been incapacitated with distractions and cheap pleasures.
Jimmy needs to spend more time on these serious topics instead of comedy. The comedy is fine, but this is just so much more important, and he's got quite a lot of helpful insights.
Not everybody in the world will hear this from their fathers. This is why there are individuals like him to give advice to all those men who did not have someone to give advice or show the right path.