https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60261876
Jimmy Carr is cancelled after his ‘outrageous’ remarks regarding the persecution of 200,000-500,000 Gypsies during the Holocaust, a mere few days after Whoopi Goldberg.
The distasteful joke appears on his Netflix special, which the company are refusing to remove.
Carr began his routine by justifying the mass murder of 200,000-500,000 Gypsies in the 30s and 40s as a ‘positive’
The outrageous comment was greeted by audience cheer and applause
A Scottish MP says he was ‘utterly speechless’, at the joke, whilst Holocaust Memorial Day Trust were ‘appalled’…
Jimmy Carr has always been quite a poor comedian and this insensitive comment has lost him my last bit of respect. This only comes just days after the Whoopi Goldberg stuff.
I watched a programme he was hosting a few months ago, where he genuinely believed minimum wage ‘was £13’. Completely out of touch, needs to get down off his high horse.