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Jimmy Carr brushes off backlash to his controversial 9/11 and Holocaust quips as he insists 'jokes are a way to make sense of terrible stuff' and 'you can do whatever you want now' in comedy


The comedian, 52, has found himself embroiled in controversy several times over the years for making quips about 9/11 and the Holocaust.

The comedian, 52, has found himself embroiled in controversy several times over the years for making quips about 9/11 and the Holocaust, previously admitting he was 'a dab hand at [being cancelled] now' He added that he felt that 'it's slightly a golden age, at the moment, for comedy', referencing Peter Cook's impression of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1960s, before the abolishment of theatre censorship in 1968. In his 2022 Netflix special His Dark Material, Jimmy faced backlash after he joked that the deaths of 'thousands of Gypsies' at the hands of Nazis had been one of 'the positives' of the Holocaust (pictured)

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