Jimmy Carr's Holocaust gag fails the funny test

IF ANYTHING, it's a surprise it's taken this long. In his 22 years of comedy, Jimmy Carr has made a career out of jokes that take straight-faced pleasure in slicing right through the boundaries of acceptability, poking fun at everything from acid attacks to Rohypnol. This is the man who named his 2007 tour Repeat Offender, after all.

- Jochan Embley

But now, speaking on stage last weekend, Carr has admitted his time "to get cancelled" has finally arrived. A joke from his recent Netflix special, about how Nazis murdering “thousands of Gypsies” was one of “the positives" of the Holocaust, went viral on Twitter and was widely criticised. Social media users, Downing Street, fellow comedians including David Baddiel, and Traveller, Holocaust remembrance and anti-hate groups all spoke out.