6/3/2023 0 Comments Closed hands joke![]() ![]() I did Manchester and Stockport, and two people complained. But then he explains: "Radio stations and newspapers were phoning up the mothers of soldiers who'd been killed or injured fighting for their country, telling them a joke down the phone, and saying, 'What do you think of this?' I can't think of anything more inappropriate."Ĭarr says the storm was concocted by the media. "It was really genuinely stressing." This surprises me. "I've had some controversy in the papers," he says, in case I'd missed it. But he introduces the subject straightaway. I wonder, as I sit down on the dressing-room sofa, whether I should ease my way in. Tonight in Margate is the first time he has talked about the furore. My intention was only to make people laugh." If a silly joke draws attention to the plight of these servicemen, then so much the better. "I'm sorry if anyone was offended, but that's the kind of comedy I do. The "disgraceful" came courtesy of the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan the families of wounded soldiers were vituperative the defence secretary was said to be furious Liam Fox for the Conservatives was incandescent even the prime minister's office made a statement. ![]() "TV comic's slur on amputee soldiers," screamed the Sunday Express on its front page "Families' anger at Jimmy Carr's 'disgraceful' joke about war hero amputees," countered the Mail on Sunday. "In a vagina," he fires back), excrement, the awfulness of the Welsh, the even greater awfulness of the Scots, fat women, fat children, fat pets, fat Scots, and people (fatness optional) with ginger hair. OK, here goes (apologies if you've heard it before and don't want to hear it again): "Say what you like about those servicemen amputees from Iraq and Afghanistan, but we're going to have a fucking good Paralympic team in 2012." Pretty much standard-issue Jimmy Carr: tasteless, offensive, short, targeting disability – one of his key subjects alongside rape, paedophilia, prostitutes, homosexuality, Aids, the physical and sexual abuse of pets, sex of all kinds (but especially anal), penises, breasts, vaginas ("Where did you lose your virginity?" someone in the audience at Margate asks him. I'd always intended to come to Margate to see the show, part of his 10-month, 100-date tour, but this supplementary meeting is necessary because of the metaphorical hot water he was plunged into following a gig in Manchester on October 23 where he told that joke. This meeting is a sequel to a long conversation we had a couple of weeks earlier in a trendy private members' club for creative types in Soho – about as far from the Margate Winter Gardens as you could imagine. ![]() He asks the technical manager for some hot water – I never do find out why – and then sits down next to me to answer questions. He has just spent an hour amusing a Sunday-night audience at the Winter Gardens in Margate with several hundred rapid-fire jokes, and will do so again in the second half, but still I am whisked into his dressing room where, shinily made up, bright-eyed, intense, inexhaustible, Carr is happy to be cross-examined. Most prefer to use the interval to relax, but not comedian Jimmy Carr. I have interviewed performers after a show but never, as far as I recall, during it. ![]()
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