Jack Dee today defended fellow comedian Jimmy Carr after he sparked outrage with a joke about the travelling community being murdered during the Holocaust. The funnyman, 60, appeared on Good Morning Britain on Monday, where he discussed the recent furore surrounding Jimmy’s His Dark Material’s gig. Carr, 49, sparked criticism over a clip from his Netflix special, which saw him joke that the ‘thousands of gypsies killed by the Nazis’ was a ‘positive’ effect of the Holocaust. It sparked a wave condemnation, including from the Prime Minister, and there were calls for a police investigation into Jimmy’s controversial gag. But...
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