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?
I would imagine they’d laugh. Do you know what an ATO handshake is?
I hope the twat bumps into a group of squaddies one dark night, on the way back from the pub.
“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.”
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.
The cunt is a complete cunt! And he’s not fucking funny!!
the unfunny cunt was put upon the green arrow blog last year
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.
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.
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.
Hahaha yes, you even went for the “lets see you tell to “.
I love it when people get offended on others’ behalf!
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.