Netflix special His Dark Material, comic Jimmy Carr made an offensive joke about the massacre of "gypsies" which led to accusations he was "celebrating" the murder of "one of the most marginalised groups in society".
Addressing his potentially "career-ending" blunder poking fun at the victims of Nazi war crimes, Jimmy took to the stage last night and announced his belief that he would be "cancelled".The 8 Out of 10 Cats host had earlier joked on Netflix: "When people talk about the Holocaust, they talk about the tragedy and horror of six million Jewish lives being lost to the Nazi war machine, but they never mention the thousands of gypsies that were killed by the Nazis.“No one ever talks about that because no one wants to talk about the positives.”Horrified viewers saw the boundary-breaking joke as off-limits because it targeted the tragic genocide of several million people - both the Jewish community and the Romani and Sinti members of the travelling community.The aftermath of the joke's release was a tense time that saw even his friends in the celebrity world turn against him, with David Baddiel describing him as "indefensible".However, Jimmy showed up as planned for a performance at the Whitley Bay Playhouse near Newcastle, and let rip about cancel culture.One heckler in the audience keen for him to address the disastrous Netflix show called out: "Are we going to talk about the holocaust?" only for Jimmy to respond: "We are going to talk about cancel culture, the whole thing."We are going to talk about f***ing everything people.
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