Jimmy Carr

[Twittwat]

I really like him

 

[Yel]

He's not my kind of comedian, but apparently he did a longer explanation before and after the joke so a clip going viral on social does take it out of context.

I found the guardians headline interesting as they were saying the new UK hate bill would make Netflix liable and have to pay a huge (possibly bankrupting) fine.

I wish comedians would go in on influencers!

 

[Deepsigh2018]

I met him in starbucks back when I was at uni he was really nice and posed for a picture with me. It was over 10years ago when this happened though

 

[Remotecontrol]

They can’t criticise Jimmy Carr and risk being booted off the panel shows he hosts. They were all posting little stories about his Netflix special when if anyone else made the same jokes about fat women or gypsies they’d all be virtue signalling and clutching their pearls. It just seems so disingenuous to me.

I agree, it is quite unpleasant to witness.

 

[Mayday]

I like him on Big Fat Quiz and 8 out of 10 cats, but agree that the avoiding tax avoidance really put me off. I'm just glad some of the other comedians on 8 out of 10 cats still make jokes about it and don't let him forget it.

 

[Oohthedrama]

He's not my kind of comedian, but apparently he did a longer explanation before and after the joke so a clip going viral on social does take it out of context.

I found the guardians headline interesting as they were saying the new UK hate bill would make Netflix liable and have to pay a huge (possibly bankrupting) fine.

I wish comedians would go in on influencers!

interesting the show has been on Netflix a month and not a peep about it until now. What a coincidence.

my opinion.
I think Carr is an unfunny tosser, on everything he does, shows and stand up, but it’s comedy!!

It’s like hating on a butcher for cutting up meat, ok he made a very controversial, very questionable joke, we all have a choice not to find it funny but we can’t sanitise comedy so we don’t offend.
Where does that end exactly, I don’t need a multinational company or government making that choice for me, the joke was designed to shock, it worked, it also got some laughs, so some did find it funny it did it’s job in that respect, weird but whatever, but I won’t accept anyone telling me what I should be listening to or reading/where I can travel/what I can put into my body etc hate speech fine! Cancel the shit out of him ( mfor 5 minutes like always on social media)
But this was clearly a joke in a comedy setting so decide, we don’t support the artist/venue/Netflix. But calling for society to be protected by something they might find hurtful, where does it end.
Better stop the publication of some books, better stop some people shopping in Asda, it’s for their own good.

cotton wool society.

Who’s Paddy Maguires?

clearly meant McGuinness.

 

[Tryger88]

What Jimmy Carr said AFTER the joke did put it in context a bit. We are all outraged at 6 million Jews being killed, but where's the outrage at all the travellers being killed?

He was pointing out that so many people still have prejudice against travellers and gypsies, that they don't actually care about them suffering under the Nazis. He was pointing out the hypocrisy. That's how I took it anyway.

It's ironic that there is more uproar about the joke, than about the historical and current xenophobia towards travellers, and the genocide they were subject to. Which kind of proves his point.

Well said, if anything I thought he gave a good history lesson! I didn't even know they was targeted in the holocaust and now I know they have my sympathy, obviously it started as a joke but in a way that ended with being informed and educated.

 

[Tryger88]

He doesn’t offend me at all. He’s just boring. He’s like that kid at school who would play up and it was all very dangerous and exciting at first and then got very, very old.

I like Ricky Gervais. He’s in a different league to Jimmy Carr. JC’s entire act is based on offending people which would be fine IF he was original. It’s so old. I could imagine someone like Jim Davidson telling the same jokes as JC - they’re just boring and unimaginative.

I don’t get why you’re outraged by people’s outrage when JC’s entire Netflix special hinged on, “This is the joke which will get me cancelled!” By this logic it’s been a complete success and he should be very pleased with himself.

But Ricky Gervais isn't even funny, he's just a political whore like Russell Brand.

 

[Amelia99]

interesting the show has been on Netflix a month and not a peep about it until now. What a coincidence.

my opinion.
I think Carr is an unfunny tosser, on everything he does, shows and stand up, but it’s comedy!!

It’s like hating on a butcher for cutting up meat, ok he made a very controversial, very questionable joke, we all have a choice not to find it funny but we can’t sanitise comedy so we don’t offend.
Where does that end exactly, I don’t need a multinational company or government making that choice for me, the joke was designed to shock, it worked, it also got some laughs, so some did find it funny it did it’s job in that respect, weird but whatever, but I won’t accept anyone telling me what I should be listening to or reading/where I can travel/what I can put into my body etc hate speech fine! Cancel the shit out of him ( mfor 5 minutes like always on social media)
But this was clearly a joke in a comedy setting so decide, we don’t support the artist/venue/Netflix. But calling for society to be protected by something they might find hurtful, where does it end.
Better stop the publication of some books, better stop some people shopping in Asda, it’s for their own good.

cotton wool society.



clearly meant McGuinness.

I agree. I don’t think banning stuff works. It just makes people more likely to want to see or hear whatever it is that has been banned. I think Jimmy Carr’s humour is crass and nasty but banning his Netflix show is not going to make those who like him think “Oh I was obviosly wrong to laugh at his jokes.” Far more likely that they will like him even more and he will increase his audience. Which is no doubt exactly what he wants. His schtick brings to mind my mother’s advice when someone was being OTT and provocative - “ignore them, they’re only looking for attention.”

 

[Eirawen]

Really? what a tit!

Yes major tit, and his stupid fake laugh is mind bendingly awful

 

[coconochanel]

Do we think his laugh is genuine?

 

[Mollywobbles]

Nasty man! Used the loophole lawyer to get off a driving offence.
Also threatened the DPP is driving points people or whoever with legal action if it was leaked to the press that he was caught speeding

 

[Danni_louu]

I can’t stand him! It’s juat one liners he does. Couldn’t stand him on the inbetweeners reunion

 

[Henrii]

Maybe it’s only gaining traction now because no one cared enough to watch it at Christmas.

I watched it and it was naff. It was all, “I’ll offend you, I’ll say something shocking and I hope I get cancelled!!”

Every joke seemed to hinge on “You can’t say this out loud anymore” which is weird, because there wasn’t a single thing he said which I hadn’t heard before

He wanted to be cancelled and it’s happening. Perhaps there’s PR at work (he’s currently on tour) or maybe there was no one more interesting to cancel this week. It won’t touch him, cancel culture only works on people who care. Which is why it’s pointless.

 

[AmberSpyglass]

He did a show in our local arts centre a few years ago. He clearly loved himself and was the biggest pain in the butt they had ever had there (apart from Lenny Henry) He claimed that a table had fallen on his shoes and that they were now scuffed and that he was going to sue the Arts Centre, dream on twat,,...they never want to see him or his poxy shoes again.

Really? what a tit!

 

[Alightened]

He's a complete arsehole, I can't watch him or listen to that fake stupid laugh

 

[Eirawen]

I can’t stand him! It’s juat one liners he does. Couldn’t stand him on the inbetweeners reunion

He ruined that

I can’t stand him! It’s juat one liners he does. Couldn’t stand him on the inbetweeners reunion

He ruined that!

 

[Eirawen]

But Ricky Gervais isn't even funny, he's just a political whore like Russell Brand.

Re Russell just whore will do

 

[Remotecontrol]

slighy off topic but I’m struck by how happy a lot of trendy tv successful Twitter comedians were to dogpile on that not particularly famous comic who simply cracked ‘no one likes doing zoom shows’ a few months back but aren’t commenting on this at all.

 

[abelleza]

I wish he would go in on other celebrities more, I think that would be funnier if he wants to go after the shock laughs.

I've met him 3 times (worked backstage at a comedy venue) and he was alright as comedians go.
Rhodes Gilbert by far my favourite he was just gorgeous and brings his dog with him everytime and is everyone's best mate.
Paddy Maguires was an utter scum bag, and cheated on his wife with an absolute skank in his dressing room

Who’s Paddy Maguires?