He's back in the news for his appalling "joke" about the death of thousands of gypsies and Romani people in the Holocaust:
Not sure why this is gaining traction now, when his special came out 6 weeks ago, but anyway. I thought David Baddiel made some interesting points on this (I do think he's a very smart man in general):
His basic point is that you
can make jokes about something as horrific as the Holocaust, but it totally depends on the subject and target of your humour. It's all about context, like all comedy is. It's a coincidence that this is happening in the same week as the Whoopi Goldberg stuff- I saw a clip of a comedian on Instagram (Sam Morril I think) poking fun at Whoopi, disagreeing with her statement that the Holocaust was not about race but man's inhumanity to man, and saying "Yeah that's not true. It was about a certain group. I've never heard someone say 'Say what you want about Hitler, but that guy did not discriminate'"- that's how you do it! The target of the humour is the evil people, not the countless people who were slaughtered for their race.
Not Jimmy's nasty, provocative-for-the-sake-of-it, shite. And again, he's just not funny.