British comics Jimmy Carr and Sarah Millican get ready to show Minneapolis their naughty parts

“We had to make Michael Scott a slighter nicer guy, with a rosier outlook to life,” Gervais wrote for Time magazine in 2011, the year after his first gig as Golden Globes host irritated half of Hollywood. “He could still be childish and insecure, and even a bore, but he couldn’t be too mean.”

Carr, who started his professional stand-up career about the same time “The Office” debuted in England, may have surpassed Gervais as Britain’s most controversial export.

Carr, who is at the Pantages Theatre on Friday, dresses on stage like he’s going to a Noel Coward cocktail party, but his material seems to come straight out of a construction site.

“People say you can’t joke about things these days,” he said at the start of his 2024 Netflix special, “Natural Born Killer.” “Watch me now.”

His subsequent act is littered with jokes about pedophilia, spousal abuse, transgender people, immigrants and incest, rapidly switching from one taboo topic to the next without transitions.

When speaking about popular English presenter Rachel Riley, he made a dark reference to the death of Nirvana’s lead singer that showed off both his dark side and his love of puns.