Claim: Dangerous Liaisons is based on Jimmy Carr's life.
Evidence: Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 American historical drama film based upon Christopher Hampton 's play Les liaisons dangereuses , which in turn was a theatrical adaptation of the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
The plot focuses on the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont , rivals who use sex as a weapon of humiliation and degradation , all the while enjoying their cruel games.