Comedy is dying…
Its end, often prophesied, is finally here. We know it’s real because Jimmy Carr has said so and he should know. The World’s Last-Standing Stand-Up has been widely condemned for making a joke about the murder of gypsies at the hands of Nazis during the Holocaust and that, he claims, proves his point: you simply can’t make a joke about anything these days.
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