One comedian's still got balls
And it's not Frankie fucking Boyle. Nice one Jimmy.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 5 Feb 2022, 5:45,
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Jimmy Carr being an unfunny edge lord?
I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.
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jonbob loves you, Sat 5 Feb 2022, 7:19,
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It's not as funny as teaching your girlfriend's pug to hail Hitler
I admit.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 5 Feb 2022, 20:52,
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He's a comedian. His job is being edgy. If you're offended and think you should be entitled to com pen say shun you should grow up.
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I watched that show when it came out.
TBH that joke didn’t even register. He does say a lot of right on stuff about transphobia. Stuff that makes it clear he wouldn’t make the same joke at the expense of transsexuals rather than gypsies. But I’m sure he would have made the same joke about transsexuals earlier in his career. Social mores change. Maybe stand up comedy changes with them.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 5 Feb 2022, 10:34,
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More likely to get a proper belting off a gypsy though.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 5 Feb 2022, 13:24,
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Nah. He'd just bung them a few quid to tarmac his drive.
They wouldn't do it, mind.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 5 Feb 2022, 13:54,
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Urgh, god! how fucking vile! I'm frankly disgusted!
It's a Mail Online link.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sat 5 Feb 2022, 10:38,
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"To be honest, I hate gypsies. But I'm going to complain anyway because being outraged at things is cathartic"
Say 95% of complainants. Probably.
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95% of people are scum?
Nah, I think it's just you. ;)
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sat 5 Feb 2022, 14:08,
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Everyone I meet are bastards!
They just constantly tell me I'm an appalling human being and should die horribly in fire.
Bastards.
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"Now this is exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about"
youtu.be/2OLXzO1oK2w?t=245
Lee on Carr, with Carr laugh in audience
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sat 5 Feb 2022, 12:11,
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Wow! The crowd really loved that. Really brought the house down.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 5 Feb 2022, 12:55,
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what's the best thing about fingering a gypsy on her period?
you get your palm red for free.
Carr should have done tasteful material like this and he wouldn't have had any issues
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 6 Feb 2022, 10:16,
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The measure of how offensive a joke is
would you tell it to the face of someone on the sharp end of it?
Would Jimmy Carr walk up to a Gipsy and tell them that joke, and if he did, would you say "well done, Jimmy, nice one." Or would you think he was being a racist cunt.
IMO it's a shit joke. Very lazy. Relies on shock. Punches down. He's capable of much better material.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Sun 6 Feb 2022, 16:53,
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That’s not true.
We all make jokes about people, family, friends, colleagues, neighbours etc that we would never say to their faces. That doesn’t make it a hate crime.
It does rely exclusively on shock. As shocking as something can be when you’re explicitly and emphatically warned you’re about to be shocked. That’s the point. He’s an edgy taboo buster, it’s what he does and how he got to where he is. People like it.
Perhaps they like it because they’re evil racists that yearn for a second holocaust. Or maybe it’s entertaining to be shocked by even the most basic bait and switch sick joke.
Netflix has stood by Chapelle so they should be ok with Carr. I think we’ll see him grovel very soon in order to keep the channel 4 gig. I think channel 4 will forgive him as they’ve pretty much built their light entertainment schedule around him for a good few years now. But nothing is certain.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 6 Feb 2022, 20:54,
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I just don't think it's very funny
that's my main objection.
Edit, also it's about context and audience. My ex is one of the most PC people on earth and it became a running joke between us to think up the most offensive jokes we could, because we knew neither one believed any of it. It's using language to wind people up, but it only works if it's "captive." If you release it out into the wild it's different.
If you put something out on a Netflix then you lose the ability to control the context. In a venue you can build up to an offensive joke, lay careful groundwork, subvert it and turn back on the audience. Once you put something in a download it can be taken out of context. Carr knows better.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 7 Feb 2022, 8:19,
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that sounds like a measure of how inoffensive a joke is
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 6 Feb 2022, 21:15,
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Not really
if it's offensive, it also has to be very, very good. If you're going to go face-to-face with the object of your joke, then either make it so good they'll laugh with you, or offending them is your aim.
I have jokes about politicians, these jokes are deeply offensive, I'd love to tell them to them in person. I have been the butt of many jokes in an audience but if the comedian is good and the routine/joke is well written it'll make me laugh.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 7 Feb 2022, 8:22,
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I'd never tell a joke I knew was going to offend someone, we should be considerate about the feelings of others and not be exclusionary in our language against a particular group or minority
except for albanians, who are lower than dogs
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 7 Feb 2022, 12:13,
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