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Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2021
If you haven’t already the Big Fat Quit of the Year for 2014 is out so go see it. David Mitchell and Richard Ayoade are on the same team, two of my favourite people. This should be good.
Carrie Fisher in QI. Now that was epic. xD
Have you guys seen it?
Loads of fun Star Wars references. xD
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If you want to know whether or not your joke is racist, you could workshop it with members of the ethnic group you wrote it about.
Do Romani people find this joke funny? If yes, probably not racist! If no, you’re being a bigot. If you don’t care either way, then you can fuck right off.
If the only people laughing hate us anyway, you’ve crossed the line, my friend.
It’s really not complicated.
Also, sort of hilarious to see all of Carr’s defenders asking, “Why say something now? This has been out for over a month!”
They clearly think it’s some kind of gotcha.
As if any non-white people are watching Jimmy Carr do standup? Honestly.
If you want to know whether or not your joke is racist, you could workshop it with members of the ethnic group you wrote it about.
Do Romani people find this joke funny? If yes, probably not racist! If no, you’re being a bigot. If you don’t care either way, then you can fuck right off.
If the only people laughing hate us anyway, you’ve crossed the line, my friend.
It’s really not complicated.
Mikey Walsh (@thatbloodyMikey) says, “I don’t know what I should be more gutted or disgusted by here… the kind of Racism that GRT people are forced to live with every day… that’s it’s still absolutely ok to demonise us & our demise as a joke… or the reactions of whooping & cheering from the audience..”
On video, comedian Jimmy Carr says, “When people talk about the Holocaust[…] they talk about the tragedy and horror of six million Jewish lives being lost to the Nazi war machine. But they never mention the thousands of Gypsies that were killed by the Nazis. No one ever wants to talk about that, because no one ever wants to talk about the positives.”
The audience proceeds to clap and cheer.
******
This comes from Jimmy Carr’s 2021 Netflix special, Jimmy Carr: His Dark Material. No, I didn’t link to it. I don’t recommend you watch it. Don’t benefit Jimmy Carr financially. Don’t bolster Netflix’s decision to stream the special.
The entire hour is full of truly horrifying shit. He has an extended bit about people with dwarfism toward the beginning that is just awful.
At the end, he goes to great lengths to explain that he’s presenting “career ending” jokes. The Holocaust joke finishes out this section, 5 minutes and 40 seconds from the end of the hour-long special.
This joke receives the biggest reaction of the entire “career-ending” bit. The audience lovesit. People actually whistle in agreement.
Carr goes on to say, “That’s a very good joke for the following three reasons. Firstly, fucking funny. Well done, me! Secondly, edgy. Edgy as all hell. A joke about the worst thing that’s ever happened in human history. And people say, ‘Never forget.’ This is how I remember! I keep bringing it up. Third reason that’s a good joke is that there is an educational quality.” He then goes on to mock the murder of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
I understand that Jimmy Carr’s comedy is, in general, not meant for me. I’m not white enough for it. I’m not rich enough for it. I’m not nihilistic enough for it. I’m not his target demographic.
That said, the joke itself–coupled with the audience reaction–is a fucking nightmare. It’s disgusting. Can I call it moredisgusting than the rest of his special? No. The whole thing is terrible. Can I honestly say I’m surprised by the audience’s reaction? No. People have been gleeful about murdering Roma for thousands of years. All that said…
You never really get used to hearing people cheer your own death.
Anyway, keep yourselves so safe for me.
XOXO, Earnest
Something’s getting lost in the response to this…
Non-Roma seem fixated on Carr, on his bigotry, on what an asshole he clearly is and apparently has always been. That’s all well and good. But I don’t give a fuck about Jimmy Carr.
It’s the audience. Look at the audience.
That’s a full house. It’s not a laugh track. How many of the people in the audience went home after that show feeling good, feeling happy? How many told their friends it was a great night out? How many laughed again, days later, thinking about some of his funnier bits?
Now let’s expand on that.
Jimmy Carr didn’t debut any new material at the taping of his special, friends. He’s been traveling around the country performing these jokes. He’s workshopped the shit out of it. Carr would never have taken a risk this massive, right at the end of his set, unless he was absolutely sure of the audience’s reaction.
This wasn’t about one particularly bigoted audience… but about audience after audience after audience, across the U.K. and possibly around the world.
He knew that the majorityof people would laugh at that joke. He was absolutely sure. That’s how deep the anti-Romani bigotry runs.
It’s easy to look at a man like Jimmy Carr and say, “He’s the problem! Eliminate the problem!” But the problem wasn’t really Jimmy Carr. It was the people clapping and cheering and whistling their agreement. It was their enthusiastic approval of Roma genocide.
So, yes. Fuck Jimmy Carr! But don’t get comfortable, thinking he’s the problem here. How many of your neighbors would’ve gone home feeling good, feeling happy? How many would have cheered?
XOXO, Earnest
Mikey Walsh (@thatbloodyMikey) says, “I don’t know what I should be more gutted or disgusted by here… the kind of Racism that GRT people are forced to live with every day… that’s it’s still absolutely ok to demonise us & our demise as a joke… or the reactions of whooping & cheering from the audience..”
On video, comedian Jimmy Carr says, “When people talk about the Holocaust[…] they talk about the tragedy and horror of six million Jewish lives being lost to the Nazi war machine. But they never mention the thousands of Gypsies that were killed by the Nazis. No one ever wants to talk about that, because no one ever wants to talk about the positives.”
The audience proceeds to clap and cheer.
******
This comes from Jimmy Carr’s 2021 Netflix special, Jimmy Carr: His Dark Material. No, I didn’t link to it. I don’t recommend you watch it. Don’t benefit Jimmy Carr financially. Don’t bolster Netflix’s decision to stream the special.
The entire hour is full of truly horrifying shit. He has an extended bit about people with dwarfism toward the beginning that is just awful.
At the end, he goes to great lengths to explain that he’s presenting “career ending” jokes. The Holocaust joke finishes out this section, 5 minutes and 40 seconds from the end of the hour-long special.
This joke receives the biggest reaction of the entire “career-ending” bit. The audience lovesit. People actually whistle in agreement.
Carr goes on to say, “That’s a very good joke for the following three reasons. Firstly, fucking funny. Well done, me! Secondly, edgy. Edgy as all hell. A joke about the worst thing that’s ever happened in human history. And people say, ‘Never forget.’ This is how I remember! I keep bringing it up. Third reason that’s a good joke is that there is an educational quality.” He then goes on to mock the murder of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
I understand that Jimmy Carr’s comedy is, in general, not meant for me. I’m not white enough for it. I’m not rich enough for it. I’m not nihilistic enough for it. I’m not his target demographic.
That said, the joke itself–coupled with the audience reaction–is a fucking nightmare. It’s disgusting. Can I call it moredisgusting than the rest of his special? No. The whole thing is terrible. Can I honestly say I’m surprised by the audience’s reaction? No. People have been gleeful about murdering Roma for thousands of years. All that said…
You never really get used to hearing people cheer your own death.
Anyway, keep yourselves so safe for me.
XOXO, Earnest
