Can’t even make an edgy joke anymore….too many professionally offended people around now…ah well was good while it lasted…
> “I think he should apologise, a joke’s a joke but he’s crossed the boundary”
I feel the silent part at the end of her sentence was “when he offended me personally”.
ok people are offended…. mostly on behalf of a culture they dont belong too, however even though he’s rather famous Jimmy Carr is getting the amount of exposure and publicity most stand ups could only dream about.
If he’s upset you, don’t speak about him, don’t publicise him, don’t watch his Netflix special and don’t by a ticket to his show.
I doubt Carr cares all that much. He’s made a career out of offending people.
He said this would be a career ender within the joke. How right he was just makes it even funnier. And he loves a good heckle, can’t get much more of a heckle than a protest.
I think it’s fair that if someone has a audience of millions of people and they promote offensive views, even in the context of comedy, it’s only right that people can demonstrate their own views through forms of protest.
The free speech gang is all for racist speech but not much for promotion of groups who oppose racist speech.
Protesting a brilliantly accurate joke 🤣
What do we want! North Korea! When do we want it, now!
I haven’t listen to Jimmy Carr to be honest, but I decided to give him a quick check out after the recent news
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I’m sorry, but Jimmy Cars had far worst jokes said in his show and this one recent one what triggered them? “OH THAT ONE CROSS THE BOUNDARY” Can I assume they are ignorant to the fact that Carr has in the past also joked about Rape? Or is that one fine and dandy to them? Perhaps they endorsed other racists jokes when it’s directed towards someone not of their skin colour? Seems to make them more racists than Carr.
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Jimmy Carr should never apologise to them in fact they’re great assets to him, now wherever he goes people will promote his shows for him RIGHT OUTSIDE, AND IT’S FREE
I just remembered that I haven’t watched the Netflix special yet, thanks for the reminder!
Some people just have way to much time on their hands. Don’t like him? Don’t pay to watch him… simple. His whole career has been based on being offensive
Well jokes are criminal in the UK. We don’t have freedom of speech
Yes downvote the facts
The joke was funny because it’s offensive so why people surprised that people found it offensive?
The right to make a joke is the same right to protest people making said joke.
What kind of bad weirdo goes to a comdey show to demonstrate
Imagine if people got this angry at the cunts in charge of the country instead of a comedian that deliberately sets out to make provocative jokes
Love to know how many of them watched it before the outrage started and how many of them have actually watched it since.
Nobody seemed to care when the show was released. Because everyone who watched the show understood the context.
Takes a bellend Tiktokker to take it out of context with the only motivation being their own view count.
Manufactured outrage.
I still find it weird that I watched this show somewhere between Christmas and New Year, but it all kicked off in early February. Why the 5/6 week lag on the outrage
There’s an awful lot of fabricated outrage going on for a joke that was part of a programme aired in December. Approximately 0% of the people complaining about how “offensive” it is actually saw the joke, they all had to go and look up the clip (or just read about it).
It’s all good publicity for Carr though.
Nobody seriously thinks Carr is happy that gypsies were killed by the Nazis. It’s deliberate offence taking and nothing more.
Comedians should not be treating like this, politician’s yes , sports yes , but comedians serve us by pushing boundaries and they should be forgiven when they potentially go too far.
It’s also clear he’s not spreading hate he’s …… telling a joke .
I can just picture Jimmy doing the ‘little cry’ gesture while taking the piss out of them inside the gig. People inside will laugh at it, they have paid to go see him after all.
I mean to me, it’s really poking fun at those people who think anti-semitism or racism in general is wrong but travellers (or some other groups) are fair game
Damn, wait til they hear my jokes about babies and microwaves.
Or the “What do you call a <blank> on the Moon?” joke.
I bet most of the Protesters do not even know what he said and was just told it was offensive.
I have seen the joke and he fucking says its going to a career ending joke so you know its going to be good/bad. He then more or less tells you again after the joke its a joke.
Here’s the thing. Jimmy Carr isn’t funny. Whenever someone comes to me and says “you see that Jimmy carr stand up?” it’s normally followed up by them explaining this really offensive joke he told and then “can you believe he said that?”
I have no problem with comedians telling offensive jokes. I’m a huge fan of Jim Jefferies, Bo Burnham and Bill Burr on occasion. All these guys tell offensive jokes but they’re not defined by them.
Hell the greatest British comedian of all time Lee Evans told a handful of offensive jokes on his entire career and was still a huge success.
Carr said some very offensive stuff in the whole show, but as soon as you mock the Jewish you get cancelled.
Downvote all you want but it’s true.
I’m sure it’ll upset some people here but the truth is there’s a lot of people in the UK whose actual opinion is not far off Carr’s joke.
People who are otherwise mild mannered and even left-wing, but have had nothing but negative experiences, particularly the untouchable nature where no-one gets punished for trashing a park or doing dodgy building work for example.
Far too many people in this thread defending Carr and deploring how we ‘can’t make edgy jokes anymore’,
Carr’s joke suggested, explicitly, that the genocide of Roma people by Nazi Germany was a positive thing. That isn’t vaguely acceptable. Comedy can be edgy and comedy can be dark, but you don’t punch down on a group which consistently faces racism to this day.
It’s not so-called ‘cancel culture’, it’s a comedian making a wholly deplorable remark and facing entirely justified public anger for it.
Bruh if you don’t like his jokes don’t fucking watch him but don’t be a controlling arsehole and attempt to shut it down. Other people are allowed to enjoy things that you don’t like.
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Can’t even make an edgy joke anymore….too many professionally offended people around now…ah well was good while it lasted…
> “I think he should apologise, a joke’s a joke but he’s crossed the boundary”
I feel the silent part at the end of her sentence was “when he offended me personally”.
ok people are offended…. mostly on behalf of a culture they dont belong too, however even though he’s rather famous Jimmy Carr is getting the amount of exposure and publicity most stand ups could only dream about.
If he’s upset you, don’t speak about him, don’t publicise him, don’t watch his Netflix special and don’t by a ticket to his show.
I doubt Carr cares all that much. He’s made a career out of offending people.
He said this would be a career ender within the joke. How right he was just makes it even funnier. And he loves a good heckle, can’t get much more of a heckle than a protest.
I think it’s fair that if someone has a audience of millions of people and they promote offensive views, even in the context of comedy, it’s only right that people can demonstrate their own views through forms of protest.
The free speech gang is all for racist speech but not much for promotion of groups who oppose racist speech.
Protesting a brilliantly accurate joke 🤣
What do we want! North Korea! When do we want it, now!
I haven’t listen to Jimmy Carr to be honest, but I decided to give him a quick check out after the recent news
​
I’m sorry, but Jimmy Cars had far worst jokes said in his show and this one recent one what triggered them? “OH THAT ONE CROSS THE BOUNDARY” Can I assume they are ignorant to the fact that Carr has in the past also joked about Rape? Or is that one fine and dandy to them? Perhaps they endorsed other racists jokes when it’s directed towards someone not of their skin colour? Seems to make them more racists than Carr.
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Jimmy Carr should never apologise to them in fact they’re great assets to him, now wherever he goes people will promote his shows for him RIGHT OUTSIDE, AND IT’S FREE
I just remembered that I haven’t watched the Netflix special yet, thanks for the reminder!
Some people just have way to much time on their hands. Don’t like him? Don’t pay to watch him… simple. His whole career has been based on being offensive
Well jokes are criminal in the UK. We don’t have freedom of speech
Yes downvote the facts
The joke was funny because it’s offensive so why people surprised that people found it offensive?
The right to make a joke is the same right to protest people making said joke.
What kind of bad weirdo goes to a comdey show to demonstrate
Imagine if people got this angry at the cunts in charge of the country instead of a comedian that deliberately sets out to make provocative jokes
Love to know how many of them watched it before the outrage started and how many of them have actually watched it since.
Nobody seemed to care when the show was released. Because everyone who watched the show understood the context.
Takes a bellend Tiktokker to take it out of context with the only motivation being their own view count.
Manufactured outrage.
I still find it weird that I watched this show somewhere between Christmas and New Year, but it all kicked off in early February. Why the 5/6 week lag on the outrage
There’s an awful lot of fabricated outrage going on for a joke that was part of a programme aired in December. Approximately 0% of the people complaining about how “offensive” it is actually saw the joke, they all had to go and look up the clip (or just read about it).
It’s all good publicity for Carr though.
Nobody seriously thinks Carr is happy that gypsies were killed by the Nazis. It’s deliberate offence taking and nothing more.
Comedians should not be treating like this, politician’s yes , sports yes , but comedians serve us by pushing boundaries and they should be forgiven when they potentially go too far.
It’s also clear he’s not spreading hate he’s …… telling a joke .
I can just picture Jimmy doing the ‘little cry’ gesture while taking the piss out of them inside the gig. People inside will laugh at it, they have paid to go see him after all.
I mean to me, it’s really poking fun at those people who think anti-semitism or racism in general is wrong but travellers (or some other groups) are fair game
Damn, wait til they hear my jokes about babies and microwaves.
Or the “What do you call a <blank> on the Moon?” joke.
I bet most of the Protesters do not even know what he said and was just told it was offensive.
I have seen the joke and he fucking says its going to a career ending joke so you know its going to be good/bad. He then more or less tells you again after the joke its a joke.
Here’s the thing. Jimmy Carr isn’t funny. Whenever someone comes to me and says “you see that Jimmy carr stand up?” it’s normally followed up by them explaining this really offensive joke he told and then “can you believe he said that?”
I have no problem with comedians telling offensive jokes. I’m a huge fan of Jim Jefferies, Bo Burnham and Bill Burr on occasion. All these guys tell offensive jokes but they’re not defined by them.
Hell the greatest British comedian of all time Lee Evans told a handful of offensive jokes on his entire career and was still a huge success.
Carr said some very offensive stuff in the whole show, but as soon as you mock the Jewish you get cancelled.
Downvote all you want but it’s true.
I’m sure it’ll upset some people here but the truth is there’s a lot of people in the UK whose actual opinion is not far off Carr’s joke.
People who are otherwise mild mannered and even left-wing, but have had nothing but negative experiences, particularly the untouchable nature where no-one gets punished for trashing a park or doing dodgy building work for example.
Far too many people in this thread defending Carr and deploring how we ‘can’t make edgy jokes anymore’,
Carr’s joke suggested, explicitly, that the genocide of Roma people by Nazi Germany was a positive thing. That isn’t vaguely acceptable. Comedy can be edgy and comedy can be dark, but you don’t punch down on a group which consistently faces racism to this day.
It’s not so-called ‘cancel culture’, it’s a comedian making a wholly deplorable remark and facing entirely justified public anger for it.
Bruh if you don’t like his jokes don’t fucking watch him but don’t be a controlling arsehole and attempt to shut it down. Other people are allowed to enjoy things that you don’t like.