Terry_dactyl
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Yeah I think you’re right.
I mean I’m not a fan of his comedy and there’s something on a visceral level.
Also, as has been highlighted…he’s a tax dodging git.
Yeah I think you’re right.I find Jimmy Carr isn't the most naturally likeable person, he's got a bit of the uncanny valley about him
He paid them back, apologised and took a great deal of shit over it. Don’t think you can say he had no repercussions. Unlike the Tory doners Cameron didn’t name who use and continue to use tax avoidance schemes.Bullshit. I went to uni with his brother. The guy is a grade A wanker.
Dodges taxes, laughs it off and no repercussions.
Fine, nothing is off bounds on comedy, let’s see him make the same joke about Jews. Let’s see principled anti-racist colleague Rachel Riley turn against him.
They live in this little celeb bubble and do what they like then when Little people question them they think they’re above it.
I can’t help but feel that Jimmy Carr yet again maybe being used by the media as a distraction for a Tory government.
Why is everyone offended now though? All this time after. There is word of mouth, there is social media, there is the press.Can you let me know how many days after release I have before my window to be offended closes? I don’t want to lose my right to complain, should I start binge-watching comedy as soon as it comes out just on the off-chance?
I also wouldn't get on a soap box and pretend I've never laughed about a dark joke.
Context also comes into it, there's dark jokes about a massive range of things. It's not an hour of Holocaust jokes.
Didn't his joke about unvaccinated people go viral pretty much within a day?Why is everyone offended now though? All this time after. There is word of mouth, there is social media, there is the press.
Complaining and being outraged about something they have never watched. It's like me complaining about the food at the Ritz.Anyone who pretends they’ve never made a dark joke is a liar, but again, that doesn’t mean all dark jokes are always justifiable, nor does it mean people don’t have the right to complain about them if the context is wrong.
Seems only fair to me that a comedian whose entire schtick is walking a high wire of edginess faces the music if he gets it wrong.
Just what I read. People saying he's a nice guy in real life.Bullshit. I went to uni with his brother. The guy is a grade A wanker.
Dodges taxes, laughs it off and no repercussions.
Fine, nothing is off bounds on comedy, let’s see him make the same joke about Jews. Let’s see principled anti-racist colleague Rachel Riley turn against him.
They live in this little celeb bubble and do what they like then when Little people question them they think they’re above it.
Yeah. Your mum gave me too much. Which was only fair because I gave her…Had some tin foil left over from making your own FA Cup, did you?
People are so outraged they are going to cancel their Netflix subscription ha ha
People are so outraged they are going to cancel their Netflix subscription ha ha
Playing devil's advocate here because as I say, I don't care what he said, its OK to joke about the holocaust but illegal to deny it happened, isn't that contradictory?
Bullshit. I went to uni with his brother. The guy is a grade A wanker.
Dodges taxes, laughs it off and no repercussions.
Fine, nothing is off bounds on comedy, let’s see him make the same joke about Jews. Let’s see principled anti-racist colleague Rachel Riley turn against him.
They live in this little celeb bubble and do what they like then when Little people question them they think they’re above it.
Why is everyone offended now though? All this time after. There is word of mouth, there is social media, there is the press.
People are so outraged they are going to cancel their Netflix subscription ha ha
Yeah. Your mum gave me too much. Which was only fair because I gave her…
Why people are so offended by a desire to pay less tax I have no idea
Also I wondered when Rachel Riley would get a mention
No. He's got better hair.I’m guessing because a Jimmy Carr special on Netflix doesn’t exactly trigger a national water cooler moment as soon as it gets released? Don’t get me wrong, there’s always some manufactured outrage out there. But it’s not exactly impossible for a Jimmy Carr joke to fly under the radar for a few weeks, he’s not Beyoncé.
Why was it a celebration of genocide? Good grief.MP jumps on bandwagon shocker
Why was it a celebration of genocide? Good grief.
MP jumps on bandwagon shocker
You do have consensus, but if I walk up to you and call you a f*****g dirty ****** who should get back where you belong (I appreciate in this particular instance, it's Earlsdon, but you can see where I'm going!), then that's my right to say that, no?But then you have to get consensus on what's acceptable, and the danger is nothing will be.
I'll be honest, I think what Carr said was in bad taste,but I'm a big fan of the likes of South Park and Frankie Boyle who've had similar reactions in the past so it would be hypocritical for me to get on my high horse.
If you advocate for free speech then holocaust denial shouldn't be illegal though like covid denial you have to be an absolute wrong un ro prescribe to that belief.
It's a horrendous joke whatever you think of gypsies. Put it this way, imagine he replaced Gypsies with Jews in it?more of a joke about gypsies I don’t see a problem with it
Jokes aren’t a considered opinion. I do not think chickens actually cross roads to get to the other side. Why chickens cross roads is a job for zoologists, not comedians. Jokes are language constructs designed to make us laugh.
The joke here from Carr isn’t “lol gypsies” it’s subverting your expectations earlier on in the sentence, that’s one of the ways jokes work.
Everything can be joked about. Jokes are not a gateway drug to fascism as some would have you believe.
If you don’t like this joke format, fair enough, don’t watch it. I don’t like Mrs Brown’s Boys so I don’t watch it.
It's a horrendous joke whatever you think of gypsies. Put it this way, imagine he replaced Gypsies with Jews in it?
But then the joke wouldn't have worked would it. That was the whole point of the joke. We always talk about the millions of Jews that died, but so many other minority groups hardly get a mention (I didn't find the joke funny, as I already said)It's a horrendous joke whatever you think of gypsies. Put it this way, imagine he replaced Gypsies with Jews in it?
Holocaust denial isn’t illegal here. You’re thinking of Germany.
What I just saidWell then the joke wouldn’t work
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