Jimmy Carr Is Way Over The Line
For those who haven’t heard of him Jimmy Carr is a ‘comedian’. Not really to TheEye’s tastes, but it takes all sorts to make a world and the default attitude is: if you don’t like it, don’t buy tickets.
Up to a point, but not this time.
Five minutes from the end of his show at the Manchester Apollo on Friday, Carr said: “Say what you like about these servicemen amputees from Iraq and Afghanistan, but we’re going to have a f*****g good paralympic team in 2012″.
Whilst it’s true that his website describes his act as “rude, crude and offensive” and he’s tried to brush off criticism of this incident as a “silly joke” which if it “draws attention to the plight of these servicemen then so much the better” – and compunding the insult by saying so – this goes light-years beyond anything TheEye could remotely see as amusing.
Jimmy, lets see you stand on the parade ground at Aldershot and tell that one to a bunch of squaddies. They’ll tell you if it’s funny or not.
UPDATE: The GrumpyOldTwat has a great graphical take on it here.
That was funnneee.
When was irony in bad taste a crime?
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I would imagine they’d laugh. Do you know what an ATO handshake is?
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I hope the twat bumps into a group of squaddies one dark night, on the way back from the pub.
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“I’m sorry if Jimmy Carr is offended by it but “I’m sorry if Jimmy Carr is offended by it but this is the kind of comedy I do. If an offensive image draws attention to the crass stupidity and heartlessness of a third rate comedian then so much the better. My intention was only to take the piss out of Mr Carr.”“>this is the kind of comedy I do. If an offensive image draws attention to the crass stupidity and heartlessness of a third rate comedian then so much the better. My intention was only to take the piss out of Mr Carr.”
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If, in his apology, he had said that his joke was a way of honouring the maimed, by implying that they, even when missing limbs, possessed the tremendous strength and stamina to compete in the Olympics, it would be a little bit better. Not much though.
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The cunt is a complete cunt! And he’s not fucking funny!!
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the unfunny cunt was put upon the green arrow blog last year
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Hmmmm. Well if he really wanted to honour those injured and disabled in combat, he might at least have voiced some concern (read: “jokes”) over Bob the Baldy Knob pilfering and reducing compo payments to severely wounded troops. At present, I can find nothing. Lefty cunt, is old Jimmy boy.
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I saw the little cunt on telly the other week, Eye and I didn’t find him funny at all. I hope his next shite is a hedgehog and then he’ll be ready for that big, carribean fucker I’ve sent round.
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Why do bomb disposal men wear those big padded suits and helmets?
So they can find enough of them to bury, boom, boom!
Taught to me by a bomb disposal officer, and many more. There isn’t a joke sick enough to make a squaddie take offence, they see far too much real shit to be bothered by this.
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Hahaha yes, you even went for the “lets see you tell to “.
I love it when people get offended on others’ behalf!
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If you were a regular reader, furQ, then you’d know that there is a serving officer behind one of those Contributor screen-names, and all of TheEye’s direct family have done their bit too. So we are offended on our own behalf, so to speak.
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