Petition to get disturbing Jimmy Carr joke removed from Netflix gains 16,000 signatures

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Jimmy Carr's 'racist' joke removed from his Netflix special His Dark Material.The stand-up show dropped to the streaming service in December but last week, Jimmy faced strong backlash when a clip from the special went viral for all the wrong reasons.A clip shared by Facebook user Alfie Best sees the 49-year-old comedian make light of the 'thousands of Gypsies that were killed by the Nazis', jokingly referring to the deaths as "the positives" of the Holocaust.Jimmy said: "When people talk about the Holocaust, they talk about the tragedy and horror of 6 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 wants to talk about that, because no one ever wants to talk about the positives."The 8 Out of 10 Cats presenter has since been condemned by anti-hate groups including the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, the Auschwitz Memorial and Hope Not Hate.His words have been additionally criticised by British prime minister Boris Johnson, health secretary Sajid Javid, comedian David Baddiel and My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding's Paddy Doherty.Pleas for Netflix to take down the special or edit out the joke have also gone unanswered, leading The Traveller Movement to create an online petition.The ActionStorm petition, titled 'Jimmy Carr: The Genocide of Roma is Not a Laughing Matter', pleads with the streamer to remove the offending His Dark Material clip.Arguing that Jimmy's joke was "nothing short of a celebration of genocide", the petition has already been signed by over 16,000 people - with an overall target of 25,000 signatures.A description reads: "We appreciate that comedy is subjective but in our view when punchlines are indistinguishable from.