Jimmy Carr criticised over “disgusting” Holocaust joke in Netflix special

04.02.2022 - 22:33 / nme.com

Netflix special His Dark Material.In the stand-up special, released on December 25 last year, the comedian refers to the death of thousands of travellers killed by the Nazis as a “positive”.“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,” Carr said. “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.”Carr goes onto explain why he believes it’s a good joke, describing it as “fucking funny”, “edgy as hell” with some educational value.“It’s a joke about the worst thing that’s ever happened in human history, and people say ‘never forget’, well this is how I remember. I keep bringing it up,” Carr said.“There is an educational quality.

Like everyone in the room knows 6 million Jewish people lost their lives to the Nazis during the second world war. But a lot of people don’t know, because it’s not really taught in our schools, that the Nazis also killed, in their thousands, Gypsies, homosexuals, disabled people and Jehovah’s Witnesses.”Since the joke has circulated online, The Traveller Movement – a charity supporting the traveller community in the UK – has launched a petition calling for Netflix to remove segments from the special which “celebrate the Romani genocide”.We've launched a petition to Netflix calling for the removal of the segments of His Dark Material which celebrates the Romani genocide.Join with us to send @NetflixUK a clear message: #StopTravellerHatehttps://t.co/cuNqYllYPn— The Traveller Movement (@GypsyTravellerM) February 4, 2022Nadia Whittome, Labour MP for Nottingham East, also urged Netflix to