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glib · 04-02-2022, 08:26 PM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60261876

Jimmy Carr is cancelled after his ‘outrageous’ remarks regarding the persecution of 200,000-500,000 Gypsies during the Holocaust, a mere few days after Whoopi Goldberg.

The distasteful joke appears on his Netflix special, which the company are refusing to remove.

Carr began his routine by justifying the mass murder of 200,000-500,000 Gypsies in the 30s and 40s as a ‘positive’

The outrageous comment was greeted by audience cheer and applause

A Scottish MP says he was ‘utterly speechless’, at the joke, whilst Holocaust Memorial Day Trust were ‘appalled’…

Jimmy Carr has always been quite a poor comedian and this insensitive comment has lost him my last bit of respect. This only comes just days after the Whoopi Goldberg stuff.

I watched a programme he was hosting a few months ago, where he genuinely believed minimum wage ‘was £13’. Completely out of touch, needs to get down off his high horse.

Mystic Mock · 04-02-2022, 10:27 PM

I hope cancel culture is ready for GTA VI.

Seriously these people need to learn to just ignore jokes that they don't like, ffs what is wrong with people at the moment?

glib · 04-02-2022, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I hope cancel culture is ready for GTA VI.

Seriously these people need to learn to just ignore jokes that they don't like, ffs what is wrong with people at the moment?

It’s not a comment you can ‘choose to like or dislike’, and it isn’t a ‘joke’ either, it was a scripted and distastefully executed sentence with no meaning or thought behind it whatsoever, for a few cheap giggles.

Justifying the deaths of half a million, on Holocaust Memorial Day, is not something you ‘can laugh along with’. Their deaths were not justified, no matter how hard you try, even if they do have a ‘bad’ reputation.

Would you be laughing along if I said, on the 15th April, that the Hillsbrough disaster was a positive, as 97 football hooligans with their bad reputations were murdered?

Mystic Mock · 04-02-2022, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by glib

It’s not a comment you can ‘choose to like or dislike’, and it isn’t a ‘joke’ either, it was a scripted and distastefully executed sentence with no meaning or thought behind it whatsoever, for a few cheap giggles.

Justifying the deaths of half a million, on Holocaust Memorial Day, is not something you ‘can laugh along with’. Their deaths were not justified, no matter how hard you try, even if they do have a ‘bad’ reputation.

Would you be laughing along if I said, on the 15th April, that the Hillsbrough disaster was a positive, as 97 football hooligans with their bad reputations were murdered?

Personally I don't support people being censored over jokes, I never have done and never will do.

If an idiot wants to make a distasteful joke about the Hillsborough Disaster then let them, I just won't support them by watching that content.

glib · 04-02-2022, 10:48 PM

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Personally I don't support people being censored over jokes, I never have done and never will do.

If an idiot wants to make a distasteful joke about the Hillsborough Disaster then let them, I just won't support them by watching that content.

He wouldn’t have to be censored if he hadn’t made such an insensitive comment in the first place, he needs to learn to keep his trap shut, just like when he genuinely believed minimum wage was £13, and working class comedians had to embarassingly correct him.

No one is laughing with him with this joke, the audience laughter is edited in, or they are ‘told to laugh’ look a the backlash he’s getting from it

Mystic Mock · 04-02-2022, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by glib

He wouldn’t have to be censored if he hadn’t made such an insensitive comment in the first place, he needs to learn to keep his trap shut, just like when he genuinely believed minimum wage was £13, and working class comedians had to embarassingly correct him.

No one is laughing with him with this joke, the audience laughter is edited in, or they are ‘told to laugh’ look a the backlash he’s getting from it

I personally believe that if Jimmy Carr ****s up then that's on him, and it should be on him alone.

If as a society we censor everything that we don't want to hear then we can't complain when eventually the censor hammer lands on a Celebrity that we like.

Imo a backlash is fine as long as people don't try to ruin these people's careers over it.

jet · 04-02-2022, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by glib

It’s not a comment you can ‘choose to like or dislike’, and it isn’t a ‘joke’ either, it was a scripted and distastefully executed sentence with no meaning or thought behind it whatsoever, for a few cheap giggles.

Justifying the deaths of half a million, on Holocaust Memorial Day, is not something you ‘can laugh along with’. Their deaths were not justified, no matter how hard you try, even if they do have a ‘bad’ reputation.

Would you be laughing along if I said, on the 15th April, that the Hillsbrough disaster was a positive, as 97 football hooligans with their bad reputations were murdered?

I agree with this. I'm usually very much against the cancel culture stuff but making a 'joke' about thousands of people losing their lives is a step too far.

GoldHeart · 05-02-2022, 12:03 AM

Mr ventriloquist dummy clearly wants a reaction and he's got it .

Mystic Mock · 05-02-2022, 12:36 AM

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Mr ventriloquist dummy clearly wants a reaction and he's got it .

That's true.

LeatherTrumpet · 05-02-2022, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I hope cancel culture is ready for GTA VI.

Seriously these people need to learn to just ignore jokes that they don't like, ffs what is wrong with people at the moment?

what if a "joke" helps normalise hate towards a race?

Mystic Mock · 05-02-2022, 05:46 PM

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what if a "joke" helps normalise hate towards a race?

If jokes of any kind are causing problems in society, then it probably was secretly a problem in the first place sadly.

Like for example if someone is watching Family Guy and they agree with Peter Griffin's view of the world then there is no helping that person.

LeatherTrumpet · 05-02-2022, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

If jokes of any kind are causing problems in society, then it probably was secretly a problem in the first place sadly.

Like for example if someone is watching Family Guy and they agree with Peter Griffin's view of the world then there is no helping that person.

That is a cartoon

I think he chose Gypsies as its an easy target

would he have chosen Muslims?

no

Homosexuals?

no

Transgenders?

no

and his excuse about educating people is proof positive as its bollox

any school kid who learns about the Holocaust is taught precisely who died - jews, slavs, Russians, gypsies, JW, disabled etc

to pretend otherwise is excuse-making

Im not a great fan of "travellers" as they never admit to their anti-social criminal ways (not all) but i think this is hateful and dangerous

glib · 05-02-2022, 06:37 PM

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Im not a great fan of "travellers" as they never admit to their anti-social criminal ways (not all) but i think this is hateful and dangerous

Yes, it teaches Jimmy Carr’s fans, 30+ white males, it is acceptable to be racist, as it will earn you some social points as people laugh

Mystic Mock · 05-02-2022, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

That is a cartoon

I think he chose Gypsies as its an easy target

would he have chosen Muslims?

no

Homosexuals?

no

Transgenders?

no

and his excuse about educating people is proof positive as its bollox

any school kid who learns about the Holocaust is taught precisely who died - jews, slavs, Russians, gypsies, JW, disabled etc

to pretend otherwise is excuse-making

Im not a great fan of "travellers" as they never admit to their anti-social criminal ways (not all) but i think this is hateful and dangerous

We saw the threats that the South Park writers got for depicting Mohammed, I don't think anyone is going there again.

I personally don't support the joke about the Holocaust, but I just don't want it censored either.

jet · 05-02-2022, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

That is a cartoon

I think he chose Gypsies as its an easy target

would he have chosen Muslims?

no

Homosexuals?

no

Transgenders?

no

and his excuse about educating people is proof positive as its bollox

any school kid who learns about the Holocaust is taught precisely who died - jews, slavs, Russians, gypsies, JW, disabled etc

to pretend otherwise is excuse-making

Im not a great fan of "travellers" as they never admit to their anti-social criminal ways (not all) but i think this is hateful and dangerous

Absolutely spot on.

arista · 04-02-2022, 10:30 PM

He is Joking

Netflix will have to edit it out

Mystic Mock · 04-02-2022, 10:41 PM

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He is Joking

Netflix will have to edit it out

Or just let people watch it if they want to, and don't if they don't want to watch it.

You know common sense.

arista · 04-02-2022, 10:34 PM

I assume he will go on a Sunday front page

arista · 04-02-2022, 10:56 PM

On Headliners
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2 Comedians, review the news for a Hour

There is a Communications Act 127
so he may be prosecuted

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga...127/2011-06-15