[glib]

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.

[Mystic Mock]

I hope cancel culture is ready for GTA VI.

Seriously these people need to learn to just ignore jokes that they don't like, ffs what is wrong with people at the moment?

[arista]

He is Joking


Netflix will have to edit it out

[arista]

I assume he will go on a Sunday front page

[glib]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I hope cancel culture is ready for GTA VI.

Seriously these people need to learn to just ignore jokes that they don't like, ffs what is wrong with people at the moment?

It’s not a comment you can ‘choose to like or dislike’, and it isn’t a ‘joke’ either, it was a scripted and distastefully executed sentence with no meaning or thought behind it whatsoever, for a few cheap giggles.

Justifying the deaths of half a million, on Holocaust Memorial Day, is not something you ‘can laugh along with’. Their deaths were not justified, no matter how hard you try, even if they do have a ‘bad’ reputation.

Would you be laughing along if I said, on the 15th April, that the Hillsbrough disaster was a positive, as 97 football hooligans with their bad reputations were murdered?

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by arista

He is Joking


Netflix will have to edit it out

Or just let people watch it if they want to, and don't if they don't want to watch it.

You know common sense.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by glib

It’s not a comment you can ‘choose to like or dislike’, and it isn’t a ‘joke’ either, it was a scripted and distastefully executed sentence with no meaning or thought behind it whatsoever, for a few cheap giggles.

Justifying the deaths of half a million, on Holocaust Memorial Day, is not something you ‘can laugh along with’. Their deaths were not justified, no matter how hard you try, even if they do have a ‘bad’ reputation.

Would you be laughing along if I said, on the 15th April, that the Hillsbrough disaster was a positive, as 97 football hooligans with their bad reputations were murdered?

Personally I don't support people being censored over jokes, I never have done and never will do.

If an idiot wants to make a distasteful joke about the Hillsborough Disaster then let them, I just won't support them by watching that content.

[glib]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Personally I don't support people being censored over jokes, I never have done and never will do.

If an idiot wants to make a distasteful joke about the Hillsborough Disaster then let them, I just won't support them by watching that content.

He wouldn’t have to be censored if he hadn’t made such an insensitive comment in the first place, he needs to learn to keep his trap shut, just like when he genuinely believed minimum wage was £13, and working class comedians had to embarassingly correct him.

No one is laughing with him with this joke, the audience laughter is edited in, or they are ‘told to laugh’ look a the backlash he’s getting from it

[arista]

On Headliners
GBnewsHD 11AM every night
2 Comedians, review the news for a Hour

There is a Communications Act 127
so he may be prosecuted



https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga...127/2011-06-15

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by glib

He wouldn’t have to be censored if he hadn’t made such an insensitive comment in the first place, he needs to learn to keep his trap shut, just like when he genuinely believed minimum wage was £13, and working class comedians had to embarassingly correct him.

No one is laughing with him with this joke, the audience laughter is edited in, or they are ‘told to laugh’ look a the backlash he’s getting from it

I personally believe that if Jimmy Carr ****s up then that's on him, and it should be on him alone.

If as a society we censor everything that we don't want to hear then we can't complain when eventually the censor hammer lands on a Celebrity that we like.

Imo a backlash is fine as long as people don't try to ruin these people's careers over it.

[jet]

Originally Posted by glib

It’s not a comment you can ‘choose to like or dislike’, and it isn’t a ‘joke’ either, it was a scripted and distastefully executed sentence with no meaning or thought behind it whatsoever, for a few cheap giggles.

Justifying the deaths of half a million, on Holocaust Memorial Day, is not something you ‘can laugh along with’. Their deaths were not justified, no matter how hard you try, even if they do have a ‘bad’ reputation.

Would you be laughing along if I said, on the 15th April, that the Hillsbrough disaster was a positive, as 97 football hooligans with their bad reputations were murdered?

I agree with this. I'm usually very much against the cancel culture stuff but making a 'joke' about thousands of people losing their lives is a step too far.

[GoldHeart]

Mr ventriloquist dummy clearly wants a reaction and he's got it .

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

Mr ventriloquist dummy clearly wants a reaction and he's got it .

That's true.

[jet]

[The comedian went on to say a "positive" of the Holocaust was that thousands of gypsies were murdered. The comments were greeted with applause and laughter.

Between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma and Sinti people were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators, according to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.

The charity's chief executive Olivia Marks-Woldman said: "We are absolutely appalled at Jimmy Carr's comment about persecution suffered by Roma and Sinti people under Nazi oppression, and horrified that gales of laughter followed his remarks.]

"Gales of laughter"!!! WTF is wrong with people. This is appalling.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by jet

[The comedian went on to say a "positive" of the Holocaust was that thousands of gypsies were murdered. The comments were greeted with applause and laughter.

Between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma and Sinti people were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators, according to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.

The charity's chief executive Olivia Marks-Woldman said: "We are absolutely appalled at Jimmy Carr's comment about persecution suffered by Roma and Sinti people under Nazi oppression, and horrified that gales of laughter followed his remarks.]

"Gales of laughter"!!! WTF is wrong with people. This is appalling.

As Glib's said, most of that laughter was probably canned laughter.

I doubt that many people would laugh at a Holocaust joke, I'd like to hope anyway.

[bitontheslide]

people just don't understand the concept of comedy anymore. Don't like it, don't watch it

[LeatherTrumpet]

Youtube video

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I hope cancel culture is ready for GTA VI.

Seriously these people need to learn to just ignore jokes that they don't like, ffs what is wrong with people at the moment?

what if a "joke" helps normalise hate towards a race?

[arista]

Only debated on GBnewsHD



BBC and SkyNewsHD
ignored it so far.

[arista]

Mock

[I hope cancel culture is ready for GTA VI]

It is not under any production, sadly
Maybe because PS5 units are not on proper sale yet

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by arista

Mock

[I hope cancel culture is ready for GTA VI]

It is not under any production, sadly
Maybe because PS5 units are not on proper sale yet

No it said on Scottish news yesterday work at Rockstar has now begun

[parmnion]

Shouldnt it be netflix who gets prosecuted for airing this.

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

No it said on Scottish news yesterday work at Rockstar has now begun

Please post us a link

[arista]

SkyNewsHD
and BBCnewsHD are now both covering this.

The BBC had a guest on, if you try to complain to
Ofcom you get link to Nickys nation Netherlands (Netflix Euro base)
so that is no good.

[arista]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Shouldnt it be Netflix who gets prosecuted for airing this.

In the UK
there is no connection
to reach USA Netflix