FURIOUS viewers could “BOYCOTT” Netflix over Jimmy Carr’s “career-ending” Holocaust comments as No10 blasts the “disturbing” remarks. The comedian, 49, has been blasted after his awful comments during his one-hour special on Netflix titled ‘His Dark Materials.’ Sajid Javid today described the comedian’s joke as “horrid” as thousands have rallied to boycott the streaming service. The Health […]
FURIOUS viewers could “BOYCOTT” Netflix over Jimmy Carr’s “career-ending” Holocaust comments as No10 blasts the “disturbing” remarks.
The comedian, 49, has been blasted after his awful comments during his one-hour special on Netflix titled ‘His Dark Materials.’
Sajid Javid today described the comedian’s joke as “horrid” as thousands have rallied to boycott the streaming service.
The Health Secretary urged people to send streaming service Netflix a “very strong message” by “not watching or listening” to the stand-up star.
Now a petition, titled ‘The Genocide of Roma is Not a Laughing Matter’, has been signed by nearly 14,500 people.
And people are demanding that his show is removed from Netflix following the appalling comments.
During the broadcast, which aired on Christmas Day, Carr spoke of “six million Jewish lives being lost” during the horror.
For his punchline, he made an awful remark about the mass murder of travellers during the Holocaust.
The vile comments about the mass murder of Romani and Sinti people during World War II have been slammed by celebrities, charities, and Downing Street.
But now the comedian has made a further joke about the comments – saying he’s going to “go down swinging.”
Taking to the stage last night for a stand-up show at the Whitley Bay Playhouse, Jimmy told the audience “the joke that ends my career is already out there.”
According to the Mirror, a heckler yelled out at a show over the weekend: “Are we going to talk about the Holocaust?”
Jimmy replied: “We are going to talk about f***ing everything people. Relax.”
After joking about offending the LGBT community, Jimmy said: “We are speaking my friends in the last chance saloon.
“What I am saying on stage this evening is barely acceptable now. In ten years f***ing forget about it.
“You are going to be able to tell your grandchildren about seeing this show tonight.
“You will say I saw a man and he stood on a stage and he made light of serious issues.
“We used to call them jokes and people would laugh.”
Going on the offensive at his show last night, Jimmy said: “I am going to get cancelled, that’s the bad news. The good news is I am going down swinging.
“The joke that ends my career it’s already out there. It’s on YouTube, Netflix, or whatever, and it’s fine until one day it f***ing isn’t.”
The funnyman then said he wasn’t going to go down with a whimper amid calls for him to be de-platformed and even investigated by police.
Boris Johnson’s spokesperson today said it was “unacceptable to make light of genocide” and suggested the Government could push for a crackdown on platforms who “fail to tackle harmful content.”
Celebrity Big Brother and My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star Paddy Doherty said: “He should be investigated by the police.
“That wasn’t a joke. He’s talking about mass murder being a positive – would he be allowed to say this about black people killed by the Ku Klux Klan?
“There’s a level you don’t go to. More than a million of my people were killed.”
While Jimmy’s close friend and fellow comedian David Baddiel said the gag was “cruel and inhumane and mean-spirited and racist” in a Twitter thread.
He added: “As a footnote, I’d add that Jimmy is a close friend of mine and a brilliant stand-up in general. Makes no difference to how I feel or think about this specific joke.”
Hope Not Hate, the anti-fascism and anti-racism campaigning group, also condemned the comedian’s joke on Friday.
In a tweet, they said: “Comedy is an amazing tool for progressive change and it’s such a shame that Jimmy Carr decided to use his platform to celebrate the murder of one of the most marginalised groups in society.”
The Traveller Movement – a charity supporting the traveller community in the UK – said: “This is truly disturbing and goes way beyond humour.
“We need all your support in calling this out.”
They’ve also called for Netflix to remove the segment from its streaming site.
The Auschwitz Memorial called for him to “learn about the fate of some 23,000 Roma and Sinti deported to Auschwitz” in a tweet to their 1.2million followers.
