Jimmy Carr here saying there were positives about the Holocaust - that "gypsies" (itself a pejorative term for Roma) were murdered. This is grotesque. Netflix should not have broadcast it.
https://twitter.com/thatbloodyMikey/status/1489599828707397635
I was just about to say that I hope that the Holocaust memorial organisations come out strongly against this then I saw this excellent statement
https://twitter.com/HMD_UK/status/1489616315920883716?s=20&t=JK340J85_Jd2bL5eio8GkQ
I just watched the bit of the show (5mins 45secs from the end) where he makes this joke. The context (of the whole thing) is he is deliberately trying to be offensive and a bit "meta" and says at the beginning "this should be a career ender" then follows it (beyond the bit...
... in the clip by saying that this is an "educative" joke as not many people know about the "gypsies", homosexuals, Jehovahs Witnesses who were killed, then makes a bad joke about Jehovahs Witnesses turning up at the death camp with a magazine called Watchtower...
... But ultimately the core joke is relying on the audience laughing along with the joke regardless of how meta he tries to make it out to be. Importantly, he doesn't disown the joke or its implication even when explaining it afterwards.
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