Jimmy Carr

[jimharri]

Becoming unfunny? Was there ever a time he was funny?

Beat me to it. He's about as funny as a fire in an orphanage.

 

[-dabz-]

Ok, and why do you think he changed his modus operandi?

I've already said....About ten quotes back... He overstepped the mark, The bbc knew they had an asset because of his popularity. They reigned him in and he sold out...Now they love him.

 

[Winchester]

Cant stand the smarmy shitbag
Hes as funny as toothache

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I've already said....About ten quotes back... He overstepped the mark, The bbc knew they had an asset because of his popularity. They reigned him in and he sold out...Now they love him.

I was asking Corky. Thanks for replying though.

Guess he followed the coin.

 

[-dabz-]

I was asking Corky. Thanks for replying though.

Guess he followed the coin.

Exactly.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Exactly.

Wouldn’t you if you needed the money?

Has he done a sanitised stand up tour?

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Beat me to it. He's about as funny as a fire in an orphanage.

 

[domalino]

Can somebody briefly tell me how Frankley Boyle (horrible c*nt) who once made nasty jibes about the appearances of people and the disabled is now a fucking Saint of the BBC? Attack ideas not the person, mocking people's appearance isn't comedy.

Frankie Boyle's a pretty interesting case.

Back in the early to mid-00s there was a big trend of really nasty comedy, where people thought the funniest thing you could joke about was someone being gay, trans, poor, disabled etc.

Boyle on Mock the Week was right at the forefront of that, along with Catherine Tate and Little Britain, and I think it's really interesting looking back at just how badly those shows and characters have aged.

The shock factor was what people laughed at, and that brand of comic had to keep making more and more shocking jokes. So over the space of a couple of years he goes from telling "I can't believe he's got away with that" jokes about Thatcher or Gordon Brown or the Royals, to making his 8 year old Harvey Price his public punching bag. When you look back at it 15 years later when it's no longer shocking...they do not stand up, they're just not good jokes.


I think if he's honest he'd probably agree that this shock jock persona got away from him and his comedy is better now it's not being written with the sole aim of being as offensive as possible.


By the way, Boyle used to write Jimmy Carr's jokes for him, so quite fitting he's popped up here.

 

[The blue phantom]

Whenever anyone tells a Joke about the Holocaust or even mentions it in any derogatory way Rachel Riley has a Twitter Rant that generally last days. Now I'm wondering why she's totally left Jimmy Car alone and not criticized him one bit.

 

[-dabz-]

Wouldn’t you if you needed the money?

Has he done a sanitised stand up tour?

Yeah mate, I won't lie... but as a consumer of comedy it pissed me off at the time...Now I just accept that everything is boxed off on the telly... Ten mins of Mock the week tells you that... No idea about the sanitised tour.. probably.