Beware of gospel-ending conversations

Karen Soole  |  Comment
Date posted:  1 Apr 2022
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Beware of gospel-ending conversations

Jimmy Carr | photo: jimmycarr.com

Jimmy Carr’s comedy is certainly not to everyone’s taste: he has built his career on telling risky one-liners.

In his Netflix show His Dark Materials (the clue is in the name), he played with the idea of career-ending jokes, and one such joke may have proved his point.

I am not going to defend his approach or humour. Still, when I finally heard the joke that many described as deeply disturbing, I heard it not as laughing at the Holocaust but as an attempt to expose current prejudices against the gypsy community (prejudices I have heard not infrequently in the area where I live).

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