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Jimmy Carr storm as child sex abuse victims hit out at paedophilia jokes
Campaigners and abuse survivors have called for comedian Jimmy Carr, 49, to be banned from TV after he refused to apologise for controversial remarks about paedophilia.
Halina Watts, The Mirror, 20th February 2022GB News host hits out at 'woke' critics for 'murdering comedy'
Talking about recent cases which have seen comedians face a backlash over certain "jokes" Darren Grimes, 28, labelled those complaining as "perpetually offended outreach mobs". The GB News presenter fumed over critics for calling out comments made on Jimmy Carr's show, in which he poked fun at the killing of travellers during the Holocaust
The Daily Express, 19th February 2022Jimmy Carr fan argues with protestor over Holocaust joke outside comic's gig
Footage has now emerged showing a clash between a ticket-holder and protesters at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge on Wednesday (16 February) night.
Isobel Lewis, The Independent, 18th February 2022Jimmy Carr: Protesters gather outside Cambridge show
Protesters gathered outside a Jimmy Carr gig urging him to apologise for his comments about the Holocaust.
BBC, 17th February 2022What the British public really think about 'controversial' stand-up comedy
We toured the country to ask punters what we should be allowed to joke about. The answers may surprise you.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 16th February 2022Jimmy Carr, modern puritanism and the death of comedy
The year was 2084, the year of the last comedian in Scotland. Comedy had been dying for generations following the purge in 2023 after what became known as the Carrtastrophe.
Stuart Waiton, The Herald, 16th February 2022Cambridge Corn Exchange prepares for Jimmy Carr
The Cambridge Corn Exchange will be lit up in solidarity with the Traveller community when Jimmy Carr performs. Council leader Anna Smith was "utterly horrified", and said audience members would also be given educational leaflets in response to the comedian's widely rebuked 'joke' about the genocide of Gypsies. But she claimed the show would go on because the venue was under contract.
Gabriel Shepard and Fareid Atta, Cambridge News, 16th February 2022Has Jimmy Carr ended his own career?
Carr has described his Netflix show as containing jokes which are, in his words, "career enders". Rightly or wrongly, he may turn out to be the prophet of his own demise. How meta is that?
Barry Didcock, The Herald, 13th February 2022Cancelling Jimmy Carr for his Holocaust gypsy joke would endanger free speech
Our columnist Saira Khan believes we should allow people to go on challenging sensitivities so that we can debate, evolve and develop into a fairer, more rounded and more equal society.
Saira Khan, The Mirror, 12th February 2022On comedy, Jimmy Carr and freedom
One of the most effective ways to defend liberty is by not abusing it.
Robert Shrimsley, The Financial Times, 11th February 2022