Press clippings Page 7
What 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 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 2022Letters: Jimmy Carr went beyond the boundaries of acceptable comedy
The question which has to be asked is whether there is any subject which should be off-limits for comedians and remain taboo.
Denis Bruce, The Herald, 11th 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 2022Jimmy Carr's cancelling marks the long, sad death of comedy... not
Comedy is dying... It's end, often prophesied, is finally here. We know it's real because Jimmy Carr has said so and he should know. The World's Last-Standing Stand-Up has been widely condemned for making a joke about the murder of gypsies at the hands of Nazis during the Holocaust and that, he claims, proves his point: you can't make a joke about anything these days.
David Waywell, Reaction, 10th February 2022Jimmy Carr must be free to say the unsayable
The government has no business decreeing what is funny.
Simon Evans, Spiked, 10th February 2022Second Jimmy Carr Holocaust joke surfaces
As Jimmy Carr continues to be face criticism over his remarks about the Roma people, a second Holocaust joke has surfaced from the comedian's recent book prompting a new wave of outrage.
Kieran Galpin, JOE, 9th February 2022What do Jimmy Carr's jokes have to do with the government?
The logical endpoint of this is that we'll soon have a Minister for Internet Beef and Posting Hot Takes.
Josh Kaplan, The Jewish Chronicle, 9th February 2022Hope Not Hate demands Netflix cut Jimmy Carr Holocaust joke
A campaign group has accused Netflix of "a grave error of judgment" for broadcasting a show by comedian Jimmy Carr in which he jokes about the Roma and Gypsies killed in the Holocaust. Hope Not Hate has demanded that the joke be removed and a public apology issued.
The Irish News, 9th February 2022