Jimmy Carr has opened up about the loss of his late mother Nora and how he has navigated grief since she died when he was aged 26.The comedian, 54, was incredibly close to his mum who passed away aged 57 after a battle with pancreatitis in 2001.Speaking about his ‘very funny’ mum on the High Performance podcast this week, Carr said the ‘opposite of grief is forgetting her and he never wants that’.Jimmy said that he opposes the idea of people thinking grief is something ‘you get over or through’.’You walk with it,’ he said. ‘It’s still there now and it’s cumulative over a lifetime. Grief is a part of life and we kind of hide it away.’And the opposite of grief isn’t happiness. The opposite of grief is forgetting and as painful as grief is, you wouldn’t wanna forget.’ Jimmy Carr has opened up about the loss of his late mother Nora and how he has navigated grief since she died when he was aged 26 The comedian, 54, was incredibly close to his mum who passed away aged 57 after a battle with pancreatitis in 2001 (pictured together)Carr revealed his mum is the ‘reason he does comedy’ as he spoke about growing up in his household. He added: ‘She was very, very funny. I think she’s the reason I do comedy. I think that thing of like going, if you only have one question with a comedian, it’s which of your parents were sick?’Because really, you become a thermostat on atmosphere in a house. So whether they’re physically sick or mentally suffering, the idea that you can cheer people up, you can make things okay. You can change the mood.’So that ability becomes a pathology. That becomes your kind of reason for doing this.’Carr added: ‘I suppose like people never talk about the positive sides of losing someone like that.’It does make you kind of go, it’s that thing if you’ve got two lives and the second begins when you realise you’ve only got one.’And the realisation, “Oh, you’re there with someone and they die and you’re holding their hand and you go, oh, right, okay. Oh, that’ll be me. So what are you gonna do?”‘That feels like a rush of blood to the head. And I suppose you think, what would she have wanted me to do? And there’s an element of bravery to it. Or maybe foolhardiness to go, well, I’ll go and tell some jokes.’ Speaking about his ‘very funny’ mum on the High Performance podcast this week, Carr said the ‘opposite of grief is forgetting her and he never wants that’ The TV star, who has two children with producer wife, Karoline Copping previously said how the death of his mum marked a turning point in his relationship with his father (pictured)His parents Nora and Patrick – known as Jim – moved to England from Limerick, Ireland and raised Carr and his two brothers in Slough. The comic has been estranged from his father since Nora’s death and revealed he hadn’t spoken to his dad in 25 years. The TV star, who has two children with producer wife, Karoline Copping, also said how his mum’s death was the turning point in his relationship with his father.’That was the catalyst, I think, although, in maybe a more reflective tone, we talk a lot about the teenage transition and those teenage years that we go through in puberty.’I think there’s something else that happens that we don’t really talk about, and I think we will be talking about it more, which is around the age of 24 for women, 25 for men, there is a thing where the frontal lobe completes.’There’s something that happens physically. And I think there’s something that happens where you kind of just become yourself. And I think maybe around that age was when everything changed for me. My belief in God went. Everything changed around those years. And part of that was we had a falling out. And that’s fine.’Now a father himself, Jimmy said: ‘It’s about being involved, being present, it’s not so much about not giving kids screens. It’s about not having them yourself.’It’s about being present when you’re there with them, playing with them’.