This is hilarious. The Daily Mail are doing their usual trick of trying to whip up anger about some comedian they find offensive. They tried it a few weeks ago with Stewart Lee but it didn’t go anywhere. I bet they’re trying to reclaim those dizzy heights they scaled during the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross episode.
Families’ anger at Jimmy Carr’s ‘disgraceful’ joke about war hero amputees making ‘good paralympic team in 2012′
Comedian Jimmy Carr was criticised last night after insulting hero soldiers who have lost limbs in battle.
The 37-year-old comic stunned a 2,500-strong audience at a show by joking about troops who have been blown up on the front line.
Five minutes from the end of his show at the Manchester Apollo on Friday, he said: ‘Say what you like about these servicemen amputees from Iraq and Afghanistan, but we’re going to have a ******* good paralympic team in 2012.’
The joke was even more surprising given that Carr has visited seriously injured troops at Selly Oak military hospital in Birmingham and the Headley Court rehabilitation centre near Epsom, Surrey.
One man who saw the show said: ‘There was some laughter but most of the audience agreed there was no funny side. It happened with just five minutes to go, clearly deliberately. I just thought, “That’s sick.”
‘These guys are getting blown apart fighting for their country and he makes jokes about them. It’s in the middle of the Poppy Appeal, too. It was just too much.’
What absolute rubbish. I bet most people laughed at that joke. After all, they’re paying to see Jimmy Carr, so they more than likely enjoy his so-called ‘risky humour’. The papers always manage to find one moron whose job it is to sit there, listening intently for an edgy joke, then immediately shit his/her pants and burst into tears when he/she hears it. [Read more...]
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