Jimmy Carr's Career Ending Routine?

[mushroom25]

Jimmy Carr makes light of the holocaust -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60261876

rightly condemned. and yet -

the show was released on christmas day. how come it's taken a month for anyone to notice?

[dannyk13]

It got him barred from the radio, or wireless as we called it in those days.

[grumpy01]

How has this alleged comedian ever had a career in comedy?

[dannyk13]

Grumpy, apparently some people find him funny.

[pat2604]

I won't miss him if he goes. Can't stand his comedy at all.

[fender62]

personally never got carrs humour, i did find dave allen, george carlin, bill hicks, robin williams funny though.

[Mozz71]

Fender- agreed, but both Hicks and Carlin had material that would make the likes of Jimmy Carr look like a children's entertainer.

[royfromaus]

gness
Was there a difference, Roy, between a Roma, a Sinti and a Gypsy during the holocaust or were they all Gypsies as Carr called them in the clip which I have watched.
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Wouldn't know as I wasn't around then.
Most people's reaction to the joke will have been based on their experience of the modern day UK gypsy...not the Roma, or Sinti.

I think Carr has misjudged this one but when you go to see Carr or watch him on the TV, you know what to expect. Trying to cancel him doesn't sit well with me.

[douglas9401]

I agree roy, that his judgement was off but then he's not trying to be Phillip Schofield or Graham Norton.

We already have them and sometimes need a wee jolt.

[jourdain2]

I have rarely seen Jimmy Carr, and did not enjoy what I saw of him. I'm no fan in other words. I have read his joke. As far as I can see he was using a standard 'shock contrast' technique. It doesn't have to represent his feelings and it rather says more about the way it was received. Not nice, but I've heard worse.

[tiggerblue10]

I liked him and went to see him at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon many moons ago. I've always known his humour to be near the knuckle but this one isn't funny at all. He appears to have shot himself in the foot.

[gness]

You may not have been around then, Roy, but you should know unless you only know about things that have happened since you were born.

It was an ignorant thing to say and I hope it comes back to bite him badly.

[royfromaus]

Bit him badly like ...what?

[LadyCG]

The joke was totally in bad taste but it wouldn't stop me seeing him again. He's hilarious live and one of the few Stand-ups who can truly interact with the audience and ad-lib. He is known for his bad-taste humour, although he should have thought this one through in more depth.

My Husband is taking his dad next month to see him for his birthday. I wish I was going with them.

[pixie374]

https://youtu.be/7k07j7LcLqw

[pixie374]

Oops
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/17563459/jimmy-carr-breaks-silence-career-ending-holocaust-joke/

[Stickybottle]

Hmm
David Baddiel has a go at Carr in the link from pixie

Seems the black face routine he did a while ago never meant the end of his career though ?

https://www.joe.co.uk/amp/sport/jason-lee-blackface-tv-show-244721

Carr will still get plenty of work

[Gromit]

Career ending ? - Nope.

Al the publicity from this (manufactured) controversy will mean his next tour is a sell out.

[Roobaba]

So I'm intrigued as to the level of analysis here, or rather the lack of it shown by many people (on AB especially). I can see that what we might call good 'adult humour' and comedy are necessarily 'tricky' to define, it's what may make one thing funny to one person but not another. Grown up jokes require a certain degree of understanding to 'get the joke', Jimmy Carr is a master where this is concerned. Both he and Ricky Gervais went to university and so have an advanced in-depth perception of what can be made funny, for some their humour is 'too clever' it's beyond their more limited view of the world around them. The government minister whoever she may be, I don't consider the majority worth my time they get cancelled instantly - to pass judgement on the joke requires context, I recommend listening to Grounded with Louis Theroux - 15. Frankie Boyle to understand it all.. Frankie says it's the media that's to blame, they 'hype it up', take a quote out of context to stir up a reaction.. as has been said already the bandwagon moves on!

One definition of amusement, is of being “between bored and offended”, it seems to be the guiding principle of much stand-up comedy. We could class Michael McIntyre's comedy as "blandly inconsequential" and others as “benign violation” to varying degrees, comedians such as Jimmy Carr, Ricky Gervais and Frankie Boyle are more towards the violation end of the 'offence spectrum', whilst at the mild "pretty benign" safe end, almost to point of being childish and silly where most people would likely laugh. Jimmy Carr hosted a serious BBC Horizon TV programme called Jimmy Carr and the Science of Laughter, he is intensely interested in comedy and studies what makes us laugh. Often the stage persona is an exaggerated version of the person in real life, what they do on stage is as has been stated already, just an act for the audience, it's a comedy performance nothing more and should be judged as such! ;O)

[Roobaba]

If anyone is interested to know more about it all read this..

Jimmy Carr: Pressure grows over comedy routine but what do the fans think?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60292675

It explains what's been going on and why.

[pixie374]

Roo, I think all comedians have to be intelligent at least. Here, it seems that not everyone has even seen it in context- but are reading the opinion of someone who not only entirely missed the point, but publicly misrepresented it. To allow even those who didn't see it, to be offended, about the opinion of someone who didn't understand it :-)