What Jimmy Carr is laughing about :doomjak:
:what-the-hell:
Is Carr not taking the piss regarding people’s unreflected prejudices against gypsies?
How many of the people agreeing with fuckface here have even SEEN a Romani person before?
Jimmy Carr makes jokes like this all the time. His whole thing is, “white guy says horrible oppressor things and audience laughs at the terribleness”, which is always, at best, walking the line between making fun of the horrible take vs. simply promoting it. Often it’s just the latter, you know many in the audience are laughing because they think women/the gays/whoever really are “like that”.
There are thousands of Jimmy Carrs and that style of humor is now boring, formulaic, and slowly dying out. Good riddance.
I don’t know whether to thank you or get grumpy for being introduced to another example, lol!
making fun of the horrible take
I have to admit I didn’t watch the skit, I just read the tweet. Thanks for providing some context. I still think it’s an inappropriate joke
All his jokes are inappropriate, so yes. He appeals to both the people who play along with the idea that it’s a bad take (so that British libs that think of themselves as modern and progressive can laugh) and those who don’t, which is where it becomes shitty. It should always be unambiguously making fun of the bad take.
Kinda like Chapelle only there’s more “plausible” deniability.
