Jimmy Carr

David Baddiel calls out Jimmy Carr for 'indefensible' Holocaust joke

'It's not the subject matter of a joke that counts, it's the specifics of the individual joke,' he said.

Leo Kearse: Of course Jimmy Carr was joking

The mad backlash to his Holocaust joke will only encourage more comics to self-censor.

Jimmy Carr's pathetic attempt at humour is a gift to the far right

It is a fact of life that stand-up comedy, often by its very nature, sails close to the wind in its content and style. Some of our more cerebral comedians are able to present their material in a way that can be both funny and thought-provoking whilst offering an alternative view of social and political issues. Jimmy Carr, in my view, is not one of these.

Jimmy Carr says he's 'going down swinging' as he breaks silence on Netflix backlash

Jimmy Carr's 'joke' about Nazis murdering travellers on his Netflix show His Dark Material show caused widespread outrage and he appeared to address the anger on stage on Saturday night/

Nadine Dorries slams 'abhorrent' Jimmy Carr; new laws will ban offensive comedy

Ms Dorries described Carr's comments as "abhorrent" and said "they just shouldn't be on television". It was put to her that in a tweet in 2017 she had claimed that "left-wing snowflakes are killing comedy". She said: "Well, that's not comedy. What Jimmy Carr did last night is not comedy."

Comedy has limits - and Jimmy Carr may have reached them

Even the staunchest defenders of free speech must recognise that some attempts at humour are beyond the pale.

Jimmy Carr gag 'disgusting' and police should investigate him, says Paddy Doherty

Celebrity Big Brother winner Paddy Doherty has demanded police investigate Jimmy Carr over his "disgusting" joke about Gypsies murdered by the Nazis.

Jimmy Carr sparks fury with Holocaust routine

Jimmy Carr has sparked outrage for a routine about the Holocaust in his latest Netflix stand-up special.

I Literally Just Told You is most interesting as a revival of the sort of comedy game show that was once common - Blankety Blank, It's A Knockout! - when regulatory rules kept prizes so cheap that people really were playing for fun in a way that did out to an increase in either reward (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) or rivalry (The Weakest Link, Eggheads).

I Literally Just Told You is a hybrid in which the cash (£25,000 available) is quite flash and has a vicious twist: in the final head-to-head, winners get the loser's earnings too. But the rounds turn on verbal jokes or physical comedy (the best of these a spoof commercial break) on which the four players are then quizzed.

The show has already had to hand over an £18,000 cheque off air because it was realised after recording that one impromptu question demanded a fact not featured on the show. This compounds a general air of sloppiness. In a single edition, Jimmy Carr misquoted the title of a Damien Hirst art-work and attributed to George W. Bush a "quote" that was in fact an imagined comment from a joke about him. Even in a comedy quiz, factual accuracy should matter.