When will Comedy End?

Boris has weighed in via a spokesperson.

He is "deeply disturbed". 😂

Between that and David Baddiel explaining what an acceptable nazi joke is, we have I think reached peak farce with this one.

Jimmy Carr basically saying the quiet part out loud, there. If every Roma Gypsy living in Europe were rounded up tomorrow and sent off to camps where they would be gassed to death, the public probably wouldn't be that bothered. That is to say that the level of public outcry - which there would undoubtedly be - would be disproportionately inferior to the level of slaughter being committed. And that's even if, unlike with the Holocaust in WW2, the public had full knowledge of what was going on.

I think normally society dictates what comedy is. Various difference tastes. But the problem is I feel now, is that a very small vocal minority can create uproar. It is by product of the internet age I think.

I mean look at boards.ie half the time you would assume you are on an American site. Basically for such people who copy America and Americanisms, phrases, thought processes normally seem like the vocal minority types who like to create uproar. Or outrage.

Comedy will still exist, but I think it will just evolve and force future comedians to be more astute in order to 'navigate' past the vocal minority. But still deliver the same message. I think it will have to be 'coded' in anecdote or analogy etc

I have a disabled son and I found that Frankie Boyle joke about Jordan funny. Funny as in that is outrageous, genius to come up with that actually.

Do I laugh at my son and other mentally disabled kids? No but these jokes are meant to provoke the taboo and your darkest thoughts.

All the people offended never laughed their asses off to Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Chris rock? Sure they didn't

Wasn't Carr's joke just a riff on that old one that goes something like:

Hitler, Himmer and Heydrich are discussing the final solution. Himmler says "we'll kill 6 million Jews and a dozen Eskimos." Heydrich says "Why the Eskimos?" Himmler turns to Hitler and says "You see, mein Fuehrer, no one ever cares about the Jews."

They are modern puritans, laughter is a bourgeoisie pastime, an insult to the harsh reality of working class lives.

Like so much of the modern left they wouldn't know or willingly interact with people outside of their own rarefied clique.

Wasn't always like that.

Nice to see common sense here and taking it for what it is. Twitter is like a competition at how much better you can tweet your disgust and condemnation than the last person. Absolute cesspit.

Well, you are laughing at other mentally disabled kids if you are laughing at Harvey?

Say what you like about Katie Price, but she's been a fantastic Mum to him.

The abuse that kid gets is unreal. Punching down as someone else said here.