Uncle Fester (TM Leggy), thinks it’s up to him to tell us what to do – or in this case, watch.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid has hit out at Jimmy Carr to blast him over his controversial joke about the victims of the Holocaust who were members of the travelling community.
Well, of course. Clearly he has too much time on his hands after trying to impose draconian vaccine mandates on NHS staff. Vile little man. Indeed, if it’s a contest between these two for the most toxic, Fester wins by a nose. All Carr has done is tell unfunny jokes.
The comment has been met with revulsion by many – with Mr Javid becoming the latest to express his disapproval, telling the Radio Times that Jimmy’s ‘joke’ is “horrid.”
Yeah, well. I recall standing by the side of the railway line back in the nineties looking at a dismembered body and cracking jokes about why she put her knickers over her head before putting it on the line. No one was laughing, but it eased the tension. Humour comes in all forms – and it isn’t always laugh out loud funny as such, but it makes a point and to be fair to Carr, he was making a perfectly valid point about… ah… ahem, a certain ‘community,’ which was why people laughed. They go it. I got it. I just didn’t laugh.
Seen elsewhere:
I’m surprised that pikeys can’t take a joke. They take everything else…
Well, I smiled. I must be really wicked.
He continued: “I think we all have a right to react to that, and one of the best ways anyone can react to that is show these platforms what they think about Jimmy Carr by not watching or listening to him, and that will send him a very strong message.”
I have a strong message to Javid – mind your own bloody business and don’t presume to tell me what to do, now there’s a good chap.
I once did a half marathon that passed through a wooded area and there was a flat squirrel on the road. It really looked like one in a cartoon that had been run over by a steam roller. I quipped to the other runners “I see the squirrel got a DNF” for some reason nobody laughed. For those not in the know, if you fail to finish a run for whatever reason, your name appears at the bottom of the results page adjacent to the letters DNF, did not finish. Not me though, so far I have always managed to stagger over the line.
I cannot believe that Fester watched Jimmy Carr.
So how much of his and his minions’ very valuable time was wasted in researching this, formulating a suitable, non-triggerng, response that would tick all the appropriate boxes.
If he had to depend on his audience ratings his “platform” would have ditched him. But look on the bright side. He is now assured of the travelling vote.
Oddly, not listening to Sajid Javid doesn’t seem to send him a “very strong message” at all.
Which is a shame.
Javid it seems isn’t really English/British when it comes to, ahem, ‘black humour’.
I spent nine years working in public mortuaries – a black sense of humour is a vital safety valve…
For fucks sake Leggy.. Uncle Fester…
I cannot unsee the mental image now!
I am genuinely laughing my socks off.
I have a relative who is a GP overseas, and she is blessed with a sense of humour almost as black as mine.
I’ve seen the Jimmy Carr joke on youtube.
The audience laughed. It is a funny joke.It is also very offensive; I don’t care about that.
Carr then explained why it is a good joke. One of the reasons being that it educates people that it wasn’t just Jews slaughtered in the Holocaust.Because of the PR success of the Jews many people do believe it was only them who were the targets. That is not the case. Gypsys, queers and spastics were also slaughtered by the Nazis.
It is good if people are made aware of that.
Leo Kearse did a good explanation as well. But it shouldn’t need explaining as it was fairly easy to get and was classic misdirection. I just didn’t find it funny, but that’s becuse humour is subjective. Was it a good joke? I think it probably was. Just didn’t tickle my funny bone.
Auschwitz was originally a Polish Army barracks which was turned into a camp for Polish political prisoners. Long before the Russians, Jews, Roma, gays etc.
One inmate was in there because he was found to have been listening to the BBC…..
During the recent mass insanity, I put together an ‘Exempt’ mask using the template from the government website on one side and an upside down red triangle (denoting ‘Political prisoner’) with the capital letter E (for England, not exempt) on the back.
In the main, I don’t think Carr tells jokes, but rather observations with a shock effect – his quip to people in a theatre who had not been vaccinated to raise their hands, and then slap themselves in the face, is one example.
SOT, didn’t Viz magazine have a series of stories entitled “The Thieving Gypsy Bastards”?
They did indeed, I remember reading in the founders’ (Chris Donald??) autobiography that they got in trouble with the ECHR over it and were told to issue an apology. This lead to there being a cartoon in one edition called ‘Those loveable travellers down the road’ or something similar.
What staggers me is that for the first time in ages I actually found Jimmy Carr to be funny, in an amusing way, about the Nazis offing Gyppos.