Published | Last updated Jimmy Carr is facing further backlash after it transpired he also joked about the Holocaust in one of his books, released just months before his recent Netflix special came under fire. The comedian has been heavily criticised after making controversial comments in His Dark Material , which came out on Christmas Day, having described ‘thousands of gypsies killed by the Nazis’ as one of the Holocaust’s ‘positives’. In the joke, which he began by warning the audience to ‘strap in’, Carr said: "When people talk about the Holocaust, they talk about the tragedy and horror of...