As a brit, I firmly believe that my fellow brits who died in terrorist attacks would be really disappointed in us if we didn't make jokes about it. That's how we deal with horror - we don't get all squeamish, we get angry, then we get funny. Then we angrily tell squeamish jokes.
Nothing is off limits to our humour! We made Napoleon into a Dwarf and divested Hitler of his testicles for what they did to us. We laugh at people and pain alike.
I'm reminded of the infamous viral clip of a chap getting hit by a bus, who swiftly proceeds to the nearest pub for a pint and a chat before the ambulance arrives.
There was once a Canadian comic who said something very true about the difference in Americans to Brits. After 911 Americans mourned for years. After the tube and bus bombings in London just months after 911. People were queuing for the bus the next day. *looks at watch* "the bus is late." "It blew up yesterday." Yh but that was yesterday today it's late.
67 British nationals died on 9/11. The Royal Variety Show, a performance for charity given in front of a audience including members of the Royal Family, such as the King and Queen.
Don’t forget the “World” trade centre was in America but it was occupied by over a hundred nationalities so it did affect more than just where it happened.
It also shocked pretty much everyone aged about 14+ that was alive at the time. I was 16 here in the UK and myself and everyone i know remembers exactly what they were doing that day. Similarly to Diana dying. It's a scar we all share.
@@moodswinggaming2972 I was 11 and remember. I'd got home from school and ready to watch CBBC and all that was on was the news on some smoking buildings. I was understandably, a bit miffed. Obviously I didn't understand what was going on at that age, but that's how I felt.
@@matthewmason207 I was in work with a little black and white tv under the counter, while eating lunch when whatever I was watching changed to the scenes unfolding. Your comment reminded me though of the Challenger disaster when I was about that age and was watching some comedy skit show, at home, when it cut to that footage. I didn't get the 'joke' or why they kept replaying it.
@@Garciarage Then, it isn`t truly freedom speach. Because, Kim Yung On could say perfectly the same......"You are free to say what you want, as long as you accept the consequences" (mainly your family residing in a reeducation-camp for the next three or four generations). What kind of BS freedom is that?
The way Jimmy does his offensive jokes is that he throws a twist you don’t see coming which is what makes you laugh, he isn’t just being offensive for offensive sake. He also keeps going in in the joke before you’ve gotten over the previous punch line so it adds layers while if he waited much linger for the next line it wouldn’t be as funny
@@reecewatson2678 I see it coming, I find his comedy predictable. He's just one of those comedians I can't laugh at because the things he says just aren't funny enough
I When I see Americans reactions to 9/11 jokes, they always look shocked, I think they forget or never know that terror attacks have been happening in the UK for decades
Yes for sure, the IRA did many attacks, plus 7/7 the 4 terror attacks in London ,that nobody seems to talk about .. But don't forget,the USA think there is only them on the globe.. 🌎 I read that up until recent years,many Americans didn't even own a passport, in 1990 only 5% had one,they don't think outside the box or venture outside of the US.. There's a big wide world out there USA,not just you..👍
I don't think Americans are aware that the global scare wasn't that 9.11 happened, but the retaliation that would follow it. I'm from Serbia and we (justifiably?) made jokes about it as it was happening.
Yeah; days after the attack I was hearing jokes about bin laden having a recipe to make a big apple crumble, and a few years prior it was about a dog getting killed for having slobbered on milosovic. The British school playground could be a brutal place
@@perezpepito104 more being self-centered and ignorant... but let's keep it real, UK is not so good in general knowledge about anything else but itself and ex empire either. I've seen some quiz shows 😅😂
When Diana passed, went up to heaven, bumped in to the Queen Mother, the latter was put out that Diana had a halo, the Queen Mum didn't. Diana had to explain that it wasn't a halo, it was a steering wheel.
Two more of his jokes "I asked my girlfriend if she wanted to play the 'r4pe game' and she replied no, certainly not so I said thats the spirit!" And when he was buying some clothes for his new born baby the shop assistant asked if he wanted the coathangers for them and he replied "its a bit late for that"
"Do you remember where you were when you heard Diana had died. I was in Kensington Gardens thinking 'this place needs something'" - that's where they placed the (quite unspectacular looking) Diana memorial fountain. 😆
I visited that fountain with my children not long after it was opened, and liked it far better than the quite awful-looking statue of her (& 3 random children) in front Kensington Palace...
In bed recovering from a night on Ecstasy ngl. My mum comes in st silly o'clock princess di has died, hmm someone else will if I don't get some sleep. Remember it very well just got to sleep. Amazing I can remember anything after those years the 90s were so good I'm a bit foggy now. On a serious level I seriously regret it actually I'm now stuck at 3x speed my hyperactivity is a little much thanks to doing silly things while my brain was developing take note youngster's .
"If you want to laugh about tragedies, you have to let time pass" No. Brits were laughing their way through suffering the Blitz for months while America stood by and did nothing. Don't tell us not to laugh at pain.
I was getting late bus jokes hours after the 7/7 bombings, I usually only find out a celeb has died or gone to prison because I got sent a joke about it 🤣 Then there's the old faithful funeral jokes like...."how are you?" "Better than Bert!" 🤣
@@hamoostaffat I've done that sort of dark funeral joke before and got quite varied reactions. The setup was that we used the same funeral home for mum then dad a few years later. They were extremely capable and professional regarding everything about mum's funeral. For dad's funeral, it was the same funeral director that was greeting us and I went 'oh hi, good to see your again'. It was meant as a compliment with some dark humour.
@benwu7980 when I got the same director 2 cremations in a row I asked if it was the same chef as last time coz he cooked up a great main course last time I was here, I don't think she appreciated it but I know my mate would have giggled his backside off at that 🤣
Ah Jimmy Carr when he had his old face. The last joke is a callback to earlier in the show. We joke about the attacks we've had here in the uk, which are much closer in time and much more in numbers of attacks than the US's one. Terror attacks are meant to cause future terror, when you joke about them it takes some of that power away.
This is really poor taste. The country was devastated when we lost our princess. I remember it happening like it was yesterday. She was all over the radio... Not to mention the steering wheel, dashboard etc...
The traditional grace period in Britain is the three seconds of silent contemplation as you let the gravity of the situation sink in, and then it's reasonable to break the tension with a mild joke. "Cheeky bugger skipped out on his bar tab!" Something like that.
That last joke was about ALZEIMERS not "Old Timers" the joke being that "it doesn't just happen the once" because you forget you have been told before. On the positive side of Alzheimer's is that you do get to meet new people every single day...
If you listen to Jimmy talk openly on the 'Diary of A CEO' series on youtube, he has got so many smart things to say it makes you respect his comedy a lot more.
What bothers me is that what people consider offensive today is really shallow compared to what is popularized in popular culture. For example we accept raw violence in movies and television programs and yet we're not allowed to talk about women's menstruation cycles. And I fear that's the Americanization, superimposed with religious overtones into popular culture.
As a Brit i can 100% tell you the time we wait before we make jokes about horrific things is incredibly small, it's how we cope, sometimes we'll be making jokes mere hours after something happened.
Jimmy’s done at least 2 world tours that’s included America and he’s never once changed his routine for America and he’s filled all the venues so yes you can make these jokes it’s just American comedians that are too afraid in many cases
Maybe try his "riskiest" joke compilations. He also does stuff on pedophilia and rape. He said the N.Y. police chief said he would never forget 9/11. Carr said "I hope not - it's your phone number. Then there are videos that show him interacting with hecklers.
I’m not sure but the almost death defying bit at the end was in itself worthy of applause, there must have been at least a few thousand Muslims thinking has he done enough to warrant a home visit. On the Rushdie scale it was low end.
@Isleofskye I rarely watch anything these days, other than QI or Have I Got News For You, the former has Jimmy Carr on it sometimes, but I don't tend to watch Eight Out Of Ten Cats / Countdown, etc so have not noticed (cannot recall) the hair style, or any "change or no change"*!! (oops, wrong show/ wrong title / wrong host !!)
@@brigidsingleton1596 Hi Brigid. I tape series and Football but those 2 aforementioned programmes are not for me. I really don't like the smug Hislop and QI never makes me laugh like Would I Lie To You. I like watching Quiz games like The Chase and Millionaire to test myself and some old comedies or my favourite show of all time:MINDER with George Cole and Dennis Wateman as that was "my" London.
I'd love to see you check out a video of Sean Lock's best moments. He's one of the best comedians we ever had in Britain and he passed away not too long ago. It'd be super refreshing to see and hear him again with a new perspective, any fellow brits wanna back me up?!
I've seen Jimmy live twice and in both times I was in physical pain from laughing so much. I even got to meet him at the end of the show and my claim to fame is I made him laugh :)
Your point "Is it bad that I think this is funny", is exactly Jimmy's style. He goes into topics that "aren't OK to talk about", talks about them, usually pointing out some hypocrisy, and you laugh because you recognise the (tiny) kernel of truth in it. Most people leave his shows thinking "I really shouldn't have been laughing". Also - your comment "This was some years ago and it might not be appropriate now": This style and topics is pretty much still his routine today (in fact the video you watched was relatively mild for him).
Good thoughtful reactions. As you perceived, these were fairly mild jokes compared to his other shows. You need to react to that other stuff, plus Frankie Boyle, Harry Enfield and Little Britain for other 'near the mark' jokes.
Most Americans would not find this funny but here in Britain as someone has said further down it may be that we just take the "sting" out of things that are horrible by making a joke of them. It is not that we actually find the situation funny we just want to lighten the mood
Canadian here. I love Jimmy Carr. I’ve watched lots of his standup. You can catch whole shows on RUclips. Fortunately, I heard he’s coming to my city in ‘25. I’ll be going to that show! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Btw: he also hosts some pretty funny “game shows”, also on RUclips. (I say game show, but they’re nothing like American ones).
The British are much more into dark comedy than Americans. As a Canadian I partially share that sensibility. We get both the British and American comedic styles.
2:09 for any americans wondering, Princess Diana, ex-wife of the current King and father of the heir apparent, was fatally injured in a car 'accident' in paris in 1997, after being chased by paparazzi. London got a memorial fountain (that looks far too much like a race track), paris got a sign that said 'SLOW DOWN.' (In French, obviously. )
2:55 this shouldn't be that hard. The Royal Variety show is a long standing tradition in England, there will always be at least one member of the Royal Family in attendance at a live performance of musical, comedic, and other traditional entertainments. I guess the best analogy would be "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?'
13:48 I'm not a religious scholar, but as I understand it, it's against Islamic law to draw living things. Only God can create life, or the image of it. That's why you tend to get loads of very complicated geometric designs, but never flowers, trees, animals, or people. The fact that the cartoon depicted the prophet in a negative light was the bigger problem they had though.
I'm an American who has lived in the U.K. for 21 years. I was 42 when I moved over here. I love British humour (spelled it as a Brit). I was raised on Monty Python. I have always liked edgy humor (American spelling). I grew up in Houston Texas, the same city that the late Bill Hicks grew up in. I loved his style and frankness. Before him was George Carlin and Richard Pryor. Two more of my favorites, by the way. You should check these three out. These three were fans of the late Lenny Bruce. He was hilarious as well.
Jimmy is still telling jokes like this and has not yet been cancelled. His point about the joke itself not being offensive - it’s the person who is offended is probably the most pertinent comment
I am subscribed but I don't watch your videos often and not all of them, because most of them just don't interest me. But when I do, I love your way of sharing your thoughts, the pace of the videos and your general attitude. This one was fun to watch. Thanks!
The joke doing the rounds hours after Diana's death was, 'Have you heard about Diana? She's all over the radio.. the steering wheel, dashboard and windscreen', gotta laugh at tragedy 🤷♂️
I thought the fountain memorial for Princess Diana was quite appropriate, because it was shallow and kept breaking down. Seemed an reasonable comment given the subject.
I’m British and Jimmy Carr was my favourite comedian for a long time through my 20s and 30s, from the late 1990s. But many times I found him going too far with the topics he uses for jokes. Although every one of his jokes are fantastic and executed superbly. All too often he made me start laughing about things where comedy shouldn’t go. After several seconds of laughter, I’d start feeling tinges of pain in my abdomen, as the realisation dawns that he’s gone too far. I especially remember finding his jokes about terrorism atrocities offensive and I stopped watching him for many years. But when it came to politics, he was always right on the money. He did a political news comedy with David Mitchell on channel 4, back in the 2000s that was utter genius and his appearances on comedy game shows always had me in stitches. Either bc he made me laugh so hard, or he made me laugh at things we shouldn’t and his stand up shows are brilliant too. I’ve always loved comedy and Jimmy is right up there, with the best of Britain’s all time legends. But as I grow older, I appreciate his dark humour less. Most of his material, is aimed at offending someone or other and that’s fine up to a point. As long as he caveats his jokes with a serious side, which he does do quite a lot. But some subjects like people who have died and acts of violence against a nation and or cultures, should be no go areas for making fun at. He should just talk about them normally and make a few simple puns in good taste and keep it real. Bill Bailey, another great legend, who’s one of my personal favourite comedians, is a bit my harmonic and subtle with his jokes. I think he’s a bit older than Jimmy and has more wisdom with age. Jimmy was just a bit too blunt with sharpness if that makes sense, a bit like a steak tenderiser and quick tempo. Bill Bailey is a bit smoother and debonair but just as punchy and he’s one of those people who just looks funny naturally and can make you laugh with just facial expressions. Jimmy I think has to work harder with his words which has its pros and cons. Sometimes he nails things like no one else can and his quick fire tempo and willingness to go to places where few dare, can be very enlightening and entertaining. But sometimes his shock factor outweighs his gift of delivery and timing.
why does he say every single word as if he has to think about what he is saying for each one "Hi.....I....Am....going....to....REACT....to....this....video"
I remember so many jokes, as a UK teen at the time: The front desk at the Paris Ritz thought something was up; when they asked Diana if she would be staying that night, she replied "No, I'm just going to crash with my boyfriend", "Fly Al Qaida Airways - we'll take you right to the office!" In no way was it seriously making fun of the situation, as we were all great fans of Prinxess Diana, for example, but yes, it's funnier because it's a taboo subject and a joke you wouldn't tell in front of certain others. And the creativity was great - that was more important than anything else. That was among school kids, though - I don't think any actual comedian would have been making those jokes at the time.
That was pre Google days though, back then you only got a joke like that because you overheard someone tell your dad or someone told you at school because they overheard their dad, now someone types a joke on a screen and millions of people see it within minutes Even if someone was on TV the chances of seeing it again were slim to none unless you or someone you knew taped it, standup wasn't a big TV thing outside talk shows and comedians changed every show Roy chubby brown I remember was making Diana jokes very soon after it happened but because a hundred camera phones weren't being pointed at him hardly anybody will ever know
This guy was a very popular, mainstream TV presenter. Not just some fringe, offensive comedian. You should check out Frankie Boyle. He's Scottish so you know he's gonna be even better/worse. 🤣
A late Irish comedian was ex-communicated by the Catholic Church for his sketches and jokes about the Pope and the Church. He raised a glass to it, Irish Whiskey of course.
honestly? I have to say there really shouldn't be anything "off limits" (once some time has passed of course) but then again I'd like to think I'm a bit of a comedy "purist" I quite enjoy George Carlin's stuff or Billy Connolly's for example.
You have to realise that, here in the UK, we use humour to deal with and process horrific events. I remember, less than a day after she died, there were jokes about Princess Di - things commenting on her having a halo now, oh wait that's a steering wheel. A day after she died. With 9/11, you need to realise we had experienced a decades long terrorism campaign by the IRA, so again - humour to deal. That's just how we are.
I’m British and I’ve seen the Royal Variety show on TV, probably twice maybe 3 times in my 44 years life. So I don’t know that much about it, but I think it’s an annual event at a theatre, where the Royal Family attends.
@@TheresaReynolds-l7m We are born ,then we die. You and I are so tiny in the schemes of the universe that we amount to nothing. do you want to cry about it or laugh . You make your choice.
Tyler, one thing i can tell you here is its pretty often that you get the Joke texts like "Strange? bloke on the hot dog stand just text me "who ordered the jumbo on floor 43?" BEFORE you even hear about the tragedy.
theres definitely a cultural difference, i think us british tend to laugh at ourselves and not take things seriously as a trauma reflex from all the hardships, especially during WW2 and the blitz where your neighbour is bombed by germans and you just smile and carry on. so when we hear a joke about a tragedy, we do take it sincerely to the heart, but on the surface we need to laugh so we can claw some kind of positivity and optimism from a bad situation. with the british, never confuse a bad joke or laughing at tragedy as a sign of disrespect or apathy; a brit laughing at you or one of your family dying is the highest honour and form of respect we are capable of giving.
I’m British. When a mutual friend of my dead brother(suicide) and I asked as an aside, “ Oh how’s Brian doing?”, my instantaneous reply was,” Oh he’s still dead!”
I was born and raised in Oklahoma and clearly remember the OKC bombing. Imagine my surprise, as an American, nay, Oklahoma ex-pat, seeing Jimmy Carr 'LIVE FROM NORWICH' (older Brits will get this joke, btw) and he actually made a joke about the bombing. My poor, shy, British husband kept hitting my arm to make sure I kept schtum and he also had to give his workmakes (it was all part of a Christmas do) death threats so they didn't alert Jimmy to my presence. I still, to this day, marvel over the odds of that happening and really wish I'd forced my hubby to stay late so I could meet Jimmy Carr that night. To be fair, while the bombing was tragic and I still, even after all these years, can get upset by it, I did laugh at Jimmy. I suppose the British way of dealing with grim things - stiff upper lip, make a joke, etc - had started to set in and therefore I could see the humour in what he said. Don't ask me *what* he said, it was a long time ago now, but I did chuckle.
The first joke was mostly about Paris. That was the city where Diana had her fatal crash, probably caused by the chauffered mercedes driving too fast through the tunnel. The "Royal Variety" is an annual show where a member of the Royal Family is present and a load of different acts perform. There was much alleged bad blood between Diana and the royal family after she split from Prince Charles. So yes. A lot of his jokes do really only make sense to someone with a decent knowledge of the UK, our history and culture.
The Royal Variety Show is a show done each year and members of the royal family attend this performance. So the joke is that Jimmy is suggesting to make this joke about Princess Diana's death, on a stage, in front of her family. That's why it's 'offensive'.
Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in a tunnel in paris while fleeing paparazzi. The joke was the UK got a fountain and all paris got was a slow down sign
As a brit, I firmly believe that my fellow brits who died in terrorist attacks would be really disappointed in us if we didn't make jokes about it. That's how we deal with horror - we don't get all squeamish, we get angry, then we get funny.
Then we angrily tell squeamish jokes.
Nothing is off limits to our humour!
We made Napoleon into a Dwarf and divested Hitler of his testicles for what they did to us.
We laugh at people and pain alike.
In Afghan, we bet on the weight of a limb..... its gallows humour, and absolutely required.
I'm reminded of the infamous viral clip of a chap getting hit by a bus, who swiftly proceeds to the nearest pub for a pint and a chat before the ambulance arrives.
Any brit knows that's what will eventually happen
@@YT_Loz THE GUY IN READING! Hahahahaha it will forever be one of my fav clips!
I think most of them were mild for Jimmy Carr
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Definitely!
Easily his milder jokes these were.
He's about as funny as lung cancer
Have you tried having a sense of humour?
There's a British tradition of laughing at sensitive subjects it's a way of coping with horrible things is to laugh in the face of horror
If you can’t laugh you’ll cry mentality
I like that!
@@TylerRumple so do I!
There was once a Canadian comic who said something very true about the difference in Americans to Brits. After 911 Americans mourned for years. After the tube and bus bombings in London just months after 911. People were queuing for the bus the next day. *looks at watch* "the bus is late." "It blew up yesterday." Yh but that was yesterday today it's late.
@@DjChatters wow, (im british) i thought i was just hearing things
67 British nationals died on 9/11.
The Royal Variety Show, a performance for charity given in front of a audience including members of the Royal Family, such as the King and Queen.
Don’t forget the “World” trade centre was in America but it was occupied by over a hundred nationalities so it did affect more than just where it happened.
America allowed it to happen. They knew what was going on. 💯
Yes. There were lots of nationalities in the world trade centre, including my nationality of Irish.
It also shocked pretty much everyone aged about 14+ that was alive at the time. I was 16 here in the UK and myself and everyone i know remembers exactly what they were doing that day. Similarly to Diana dying. It's a scar we all share.
@@moodswinggaming2972 I was 11 and remember. I'd got home from school and ready to watch CBBC and all that was on was the news on some smoking buildings. I was understandably, a bit miffed. Obviously I didn't understand what was going on at that age, but that's how I felt.
@@matthewmason207 I was in work with a little black and white tv under the counter, while eating lunch when whatever I was watching changed to the scenes unfolding.
Your comment reminded me though of the Challenger disaster when I was about that age and was watching some comedy skit show, at home, when it cut to that footage. I didn't get the 'joke' or why they kept replaying it.
So if you can’t say that in America, where is your freedom of speech then? All Americans bang on about it all the time.
1st Amendment is so poorly understood as simply being that.
Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of consequences… 😊
@@Garciarageand yet comedians in the U.K. can say these things and face no consequences. Not so sure the same can be said of he was in the USA
@ In most countries, definitely the U.K., but Americans are ALWAYS banging on about their freedom of speech.
@@Garciarage Then, it isn`t truly freedom speach. Because, Kim Yung On could say perfectly the same......"You are free to say what you want, as long as you accept the consequences" (mainly your family residing in a reeducation-camp for the next three or four generations). What kind of BS freedom is that?
The way Jimmy does his offensive jokes is that he throws a twist you don’t see coming which is what makes you laugh, he isn’t just being offensive for offensive sake. He also keeps going in in the joke before you’ve gotten over the previous punch line so it adds layers while if he waited much linger for the next line it wouldn’t be as funny
@@reecewatson2678 I see it coming, I find his comedy predictable. He's just one of those comedians I can't laugh at because the things he says just aren't funny enough
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When I see Americans reactions to 9/11 jokes, they always look shocked, I think they forget or never know that terror attacks have been happening in the UK for decades
Yes for sure, the IRA did many attacks, plus 7/7 the 4 terror attacks in London ,that nobody seems to talk about ..
But don't forget,the USA think there is only them on the globe.. 🌎
I read that up until recent years,many Americans didn't even own a passport, in 1990 only 5% had one,they don't think outside the box or venture outside of the US.. There's a big wide world out there USA,not just you..👍
I don't think Americans are aware that the global scare wasn't that 9.11 happened, but the retaliation that would follow it. I'm from Serbia and we (justifiably?) made jokes about it as it was happening.
And those terrorist attacks were financed by American Irish republican sympathisers.
So very true. Generally Americans are narrow minded, poorly educated and arrogant.
Yeah; days after the attack I was hearing jokes about bin laden having a recipe to make a big apple crumble, and a few years prior it was about a dog getting killed for having slobbered on milosovic. The British school playground could be a brutal place
One thing to remember about Jimmy Carrs jokes is: "Sure, I tell offensive jokes, but you are the fuckers who LAUGH at them"
I love how Americans don't get Europe related jokes, but Europeans completely understands both Europe and USA related jokes...
In South Africa we get every joke there is..
IQ differentials
@@perezpepito104 more being self-centered and ignorant... but let's keep it real, UK is not so good in general knowledge about anything else but itself and ex empire either. I've seen some quiz shows 😅😂
When Diana passed, went up to heaven, bumped in to the Queen Mother, the latter was put out that Diana had a halo, the Queen Mum didn't. Diana had to explain that it wasn't a halo, it was a steering wheel.
Your videos basically just consist of you missing 80% of the jokes, this alone makes them hilarious. 😂
Two more of his jokes "I asked my girlfriend if she wanted to play the 'r4pe game' and she replied no, certainly not so I said thats the spirit!"
And when he was buying some clothes for his new born baby the shop assistant asked if he wanted the coathangers for them and he replied "its a bit late for that"
"Do you remember where you were when you heard Diana had died. I was in Kensington Gardens thinking 'this place needs something'" - that's where they placed the (quite unspectacular looking) Diana memorial fountain. 😆
I visited that fountain with my children not long after it was opened, and liked it far better than the quite awful-looking statue of her (& 3 random children) in front Kensington Palace...
That was the joke.
@@paolomargini7904 Yes, obviously, but he was explaining the context to Tyler, who didn't know the background.
In bed recovering from a night on Ecstasy ngl. My mum comes in st silly o'clock princess di has died, hmm someone else will if I don't get some sleep.
Remember it very well just got to sleep. Amazing I can remember anything after those years the 90s were so good I'm a bit foggy now. On a serious level I seriously regret it actually I'm now stuck at 3x speed my hyperactivity is a little much thanks to doing silly things while my brain was developing take note youngster's .
I was in Paris looking for bodyshop for my white fiat uno
"If you want to laugh about tragedies, you have to let time pass"
No. Brits were laughing their way through suffering the Blitz for months while America stood by and did nothing.
Don't tell us not to laugh at pain.
Yes, I remember that when anything happened, it was like a race to see who could come up with the best jokes first!
I was getting late bus jokes hours after the 7/7 bombings, I usually only find out a celeb has died or gone to prison because I got sent a joke about it 🤣
Then there's the old faithful funeral jokes like...."how are you?" "Better than Bert!" 🤣
@@hamoostaffat I've done that sort of dark funeral joke before and got quite varied reactions.
The setup was that we used the same funeral home for mum then dad a few years later. They were extremely capable and professional regarding everything about mum's funeral. For dad's funeral, it was the same funeral director that was greeting us and I went 'oh hi, good to see your again'.
It was meant as a compliment with some dark humour.
@benwu7980 when I got the same director 2 cremations in a row I asked if it was the same chef as last time coz he cooked up a great main course last time I was here, I don't think she appreciated it but I know my mate would have giggled his backside off at that 🤣
@@cptncutleg pretty much. We needed help and was forced the build from rubble and scrap. And still we had better production per weight than america.
"You need to let time pass to make jokes" not in the UK lol
Not sure I think maybe a day or two, so the audience get the references.
That's it.
If its funny. Its funny 😂😂😂
I remember the day after the matt Handycock affair came out to the public, we were sat in biology making jokes about it.
Hour at so at least 😂
Try Frankie Boyle. He will definitely open your eyes to offensive humour.
You mean pre to circa Mock The Week, before he sold his soul to the BBC for a new contract.
Before he became a woke, left wing arsehole.
@@marcwilliams9824
Before he sold his soul to Russia Today
@@marcwilliams9824 Yes, his change of style & content is bizarre.
Jimmy is pretty Tame compared to Frankie so if you do decided to do a video on Frankie be warned he doesn't pull his punches
Ah Jimmy Carr when he had his old face. The last joke is a callback to earlier in the show. We joke about the attacks we've had here in the uk, which are much closer in time and much more in numbers of attacks than the US's one. Terror attacks are meant to cause future terror, when you joke about them it takes some of that power away.
You mean his olde face full of filler and botox when his entire forehead never moved? He looks way better since he stopped getting the botox
This is really poor taste. The country was devastated when we lost our princess. I remember it happening like it was yesterday. She was all over the radio...
Not to mention the steering wheel, dashboard etc...
Had us in the first half 😂
No we weren't 'devastated'. It's just the Luvvy wuvvy types who wanted a day off work. She was just a statistic like any other traffic accident.
Lmaoooooo😊
The traditional grace period in Britain is the three seconds of silent contemplation as you let the gravity of the situation sink in, and then it's reasonable to break the tension with a mild joke.
"Cheeky bugger skipped out on his bar tab!" Something like that.
That's not contemplation, that's trying to think of a good pun
The other bizarre thing is that Starmer hasn't started to crack down on this sort of speech; he has on everything else.
That last joke was about ALZEIMERS not "Old Timers" the joke being that "it doesn't just happen the once" because you forget you have been told before.
On the positive side of Alzheimer's is that you do get to meet new people every single day...
Also I think he had told the same joke earlier in the set, which is what makes it funny.
Also, you don't mind watching repeats on TV.
@isleofskye And visit lots of exciting new places !
If you can't remember how to get to the library you can just keep reading the same book!
The most offensive thing about Jimmy Carr is his 'laugh'.
"'If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of AIDS."
-Jimmy Carr
My favourite one is "in fairness to Hitler..."
..."he did kill Hitler."😂
USA - land of free speech so it claims but comedians can't broach certain topics for fear of getting into hot water. Hmm?
I don't think it's a free speech issue, it more to do with American snowflakes getting PTSD from words. Lol
@@mickylee82and the communists that run britain. Jailing over tweets but releasing more serious criminals
Also Britain the land of the stiff upper lip is now becoming the land of sensitive snowflakes too.
free speech and free from consequence is not the same thing. say what you want but don't be mad when people don't take kindly to it.
@Fulbor yeah, you would end up in court
You don't really understand comedy 😢😅🤣🤪 🇬🇧👍
If you listen to Jimmy talk openly on the 'Diary of A CEO' series on youtube, he has got so many smart things to say it makes you respect his comedy a lot more.
What bothers me is that what people consider offensive today is really shallow compared to what is popularized in popular culture. For example we accept raw violence in movies and television programs and yet we're not allowed to talk about women's menstruation cycles. And I fear that's the Americanization, superimposed with religious overtones into popular culture.
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As a Brit i can 100% tell you the time we wait before we make jokes about horrific things is incredibly small, it's how we cope, sometimes we'll be making jokes mere hours after something happened.
100% a bad situation is still bad whether you joke about it or not, laughing about it just shines some light on it. 🇬🇧
the Alzheimer's joke at the end was just a call back joke to his opening joke of the show which was the same thing
Also,I think he heard ?"Old Timers" :)
Jimmy’s done at least 2 world tours that’s included America and he’s never once changed his routine for America and he’s filled all the venues so yes you can make these jokes it’s just American comedians that are too afraid in many cases
I guess there's a difference between prime time TV and acts at comedy clubs.
Maybe try his "riskiest" joke compilations. He also does stuff on pedophilia and rape. He said the N.Y. police chief said he would never forget 9/11. Carr said "I hope not - it's your phone number. Then there are videos that show him interacting with hecklers.
I’m not sure but the almost death defying bit at the end was in itself worthy of applause, there must have been at least a few thousand Muslims thinking has he done enough to warrant a home visit. On the Rushdie scale it was low end.
No, Jimmy Carr has been known to say an occasional inoffensive jokes, I’ve never heard them.
I think, only as a run up to an offensive one.
lol i am suprised you review this .... tis very funny
he does worse he really does
Porsche sells a car model 911. Goes from 360 to zero in two seconds. Germans really have a sense of humour.
Den gab's aber lange vor 2001. Ansonsten wärs wirklich echt witzig
911! It’s the bomb!
I haven’t been offended for twenty years or more. I think it’s a self obsessive trait.
I have "liked" your comment but I have no idea why...
@@Isleofskye
You're a fan ?
@@brigidsingleton1596 I like Jimmy,Brigid though not his change of hairstyle:)
@Isleofskye
I rarely watch anything these days, other than QI or Have I Got News For You, the former has Jimmy Carr on it sometimes, but I don't tend to watch Eight Out Of Ten Cats / Countdown, etc so have not noticed
(cannot recall) the hair style, or any
"change or no change"*!! (oops, wrong show/ wrong title / wrong host !!)
@@brigidsingleton1596 Hi Brigid. I tape series and Football but those 2 aforementioned programmes are not for me. I really don't like the smug Hislop and QI never makes me laugh like Would I Lie To You.
I like watching Quiz games like The Chase and Millionaire to test myself and some old comedies or my favourite show of all time:MINDER with George Cole and Dennis Wateman as that was "my" London.
I'd love to see you check out a video of Sean Lock's best moments. He's one of the best comedians we ever had in Britain and he passed away not too long ago. It'd be super refreshing to see and hear him again with a new perspective, any fellow brits wanna back me up?!
❤ yes!
Yes he was really great
Oh yes, Sean Lock was amazing! I miss him
Frankie Boyle- Michael Jackson Children's Hospital is by far the most offensive joke I’ve ever heard.
His 2 videos on his Risqué jokes are much more "offensive" but personally find them even more comical
I've seen Jimmy live twice and in both times I was in physical pain from laughing so much. I even got to meet him at the end of the show and my claim to fame is I made him laugh :)
Ha that's awesome!
I met him in Bournemouth! Super sweet guy x
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Your point "Is it bad that I think this is funny", is exactly Jimmy's style. He goes into topics that "aren't OK to talk about", talks about them, usually pointing out some hypocrisy, and you laugh because you recognise the (tiny) kernel of truth in it. Most people leave his shows thinking "I really shouldn't have been laughing".
Also - your comment "This was some years ago and it might not be appropriate now": This style and topics is pretty much still his routine today (in fact the video you watched was relatively mild for him).
Good thoughtful reactions. As you perceived, these were fairly mild jokes compared to his other shows. You need to react to that other stuff, plus Frankie Boyle, Harry Enfield and Little Britain for other 'near the mark' jokes.
Jimmy is an absolute savage. He encourages people to heckle him and then f's them up. Brilliant
I cant stop parroting your intro line now, been binging hard hahaha, keep up the great vids! All the best from the UK
Most Americans would not find this funny but here in Britain as someone has said further down it may be that we just take the "sting" out of things that are horrible by making a joke of them. It is not that we actually find the situation funny we just want to lighten the mood
No !!
100% 🇬🇧🇬🇧
"You have to let time pass before you joke about it"
Anthony Jeselnik : "We'll see about that"
Think the joke was the French got a slowdown sign
We don't hold back 😂
Canadian here. I love Jimmy Carr. I’ve watched lots of his standup. You can catch whole shows on RUclips. Fortunately, I heard he’s coming to my city in ‘25. I’ll be going to that show!
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Btw: he also hosts some pretty funny “game shows”, also on RUclips. (I say game show, but they’re nothing like American ones).
The British are much more into dark comedy than Americans. As a Canadian I partially share that sensibility. We get both the British and American comedic styles.
No he still does those joke. In England you're not funny if you're not shocking. This is tame
He explains it himself. He’s telling bad taste jokes not offensive jokes that harm people or stoke hatred or ignorance. Big difference.
Spot on.
Here’s one for you. Imagine Felching and then following that up by snowballing.
2:09 for any americans wondering, Princess Diana, ex-wife of the current King and father of the heir apparent, was fatally injured in a car 'accident' in paris in 1997, after being chased by paparazzi. London got a memorial fountain (that looks far too much like a race track), paris got a sign that said 'SLOW DOWN.' (In French, obviously. )
2:55 this shouldn't be that hard. The Royal Variety show is a long standing tradition in England, there will always be at least one member of the Royal Family in attendance at a live performance of musical, comedic, and other traditional entertainments.
I guess the best analogy would be "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?'
3:08 that's where her memorial is, bro.
4:08 the difference is that we Brits know enough about America to get the jokes without having them explained to us.
Usually.
10:24 because they used *people* instead...
13:48 I'm not a religious scholar, but as I understand it, it's against Islamic law to draw living things. Only God can create life, or the image of it. That's why you tend to get loads of very complicated geometric designs, but never flowers, trees, animals, or people. The fact that the cartoon depicted the prophet in a negative light was the bigger problem they had though.
And to think, this video didn't even touch on the pedophile jokes he's done....
Those ones are wild😂💀
Stop talking about Biden
Jimmy Carr's heckler comeback jokes vids are hilariously funny.
this is the wrong collection its jimmy carr most offensive jokes part 1 is the offensive set of videos
Sounds like the USA doesn't play Carrot In A Box.
Normies idea of offensive jokes.
Literally this 😂 these were kinda weak imo. Funny but not that dark
I'm an American who has lived in the U.K. for 21 years. I was 42 when I moved over here. I love British humour (spelled it as a Brit). I was raised on Monty Python. I have always liked edgy humor (American spelling). I grew up in Houston Texas, the same city that the late Bill Hicks grew up in. I loved his style and frankness. Before him was George Carlin and Richard Pryor. Two more of my favorites, by the way. You should check these three out. These three were fans of the late Lenny Bruce. He was hilarious as well.
Props for leaving in the swear words Tyler! you do know you wont get any money from this one tho lol!
Don't remind him...we could lose this attitude to "reacting to similar jokes"!!
Jimmy is still telling jokes like this and has not yet been cancelled. His point about the joke itself not being offensive - it’s the person who is offended is probably the most pertinent comment
this is pretty tame for him, also you should check out frankie boyle
I am subscribed but I don't watch your videos often and not all of them, because most of them just don't interest me. But when I do, I love your way of sharing your thoughts, the pace of the videos and your general attitude. This one was fun to watch. Thanks!
I'm offended far more by religion than jokes about religion. Comedians are not trying to brainwash people.
Religion doesn’t offend me. Well, not mine at least… I do find other religions and atheists intolerable! Buddha taught me intolerance.
I thought this sort of nonsense died off. Alas, redditors still exist.
Does your fedora still fit?
The joke doing the rounds hours after Diana's death was, 'Have you heard about Diana? She's all over the radio.. the steering wheel, dashboard and windscreen', gotta laugh at tragedy 🤷♂️
definitely react to more jimmy carr! one of England's best comedians
REALLY ??.??
im glad im canadian for the fact that its easier to get british humour from across the pond
I thought the fountain memorial for Princess Diana was quite appropriate, because it was shallow and kept breaking down.
Seemed an reasonable comment given the subject.
The closing Alzheimer's joke: that's the punch line. The setup is he opened the show with that joke (the full version is up in his channel).
If this is your first time watching Jimmy carr, sit down and strap yourself in lol. Brilliant.
I’m British and Jimmy Carr was my favourite comedian for a long time through my 20s and 30s, from the late 1990s. But many times I found him going too far with the topics he uses for jokes.
Although every one of his jokes are fantastic and executed superbly. All too often he made me start laughing about things where comedy shouldn’t go. After several seconds of laughter, I’d start feeling tinges of pain in my abdomen, as the realisation dawns that he’s gone too far. I especially remember finding his jokes about terrorism atrocities offensive and I stopped watching him for many years.
But when it came to politics, he was always right on the money. He did a political news comedy with David Mitchell on channel 4, back in the 2000s that was utter genius and his appearances on comedy game shows always had me in stitches. Either bc he made me laugh so hard, or he made me laugh at things we shouldn’t and his stand up shows are brilliant too.
I’ve always loved comedy and Jimmy is right up there, with the best of Britain’s all time legends.
But as I grow older, I appreciate his dark humour less. Most of his material, is aimed at offending someone or other and that’s fine up to a point. As long as he caveats his jokes with a serious side, which he does do quite a lot.
But some subjects like people who have died and acts of violence against a nation and or cultures, should be no go areas for making fun at. He should just talk about them normally and make a few simple puns in good taste and keep it real. Bill Bailey, another great legend, who’s one of my personal favourite comedians, is a bit my harmonic and subtle with his jokes. I think he’s a bit older than Jimmy and has more wisdom with age.
Jimmy was just a bit too blunt with sharpness if that makes sense, a bit like a steak tenderiser and quick tempo. Bill Bailey is a bit smoother and debonair but just as punchy and he’s one of those people who just looks funny naturally and can make you laugh with just facial expressions.
Jimmy I think has to work harder with his words which has its pros and cons. Sometimes he nails things like no one else can and his quick fire tempo and willingness to go to places where few dare, can be very enlightening and entertaining. But sometimes his shock factor outweighs his gift of delivery and timing.
why does he say every single word as if he has to think about what he is saying for each one "Hi.....I....Am....going....to....REACT....to....this....video"
And why does he need to screw up his face and wink one eye when he says it? Ughh. I have to fast-forward the intro every time.
I remember so many jokes, as a UK teen at the time:
The front desk at the Paris Ritz thought something was up; when they asked Diana if she would be staying that night, she replied "No, I'm just going to crash with my boyfriend",
"Fly Al Qaida Airways - we'll take you right to the office!"
In no way was it seriously making fun of the situation, as we were all great fans of Prinxess Diana, for example, but yes, it's funnier because it's a taboo subject and a joke you wouldn't tell in front of certain others. And the creativity was great - that was more important than anything else.
That was among school kids, though - I don't think any actual comedian would have been making those jokes at the time.
That was pre Google days though, back then you only got a joke like that because you overheard someone tell your dad or someone told you at school because they overheard their dad, now someone types a joke on a screen and millions of people see it within minutes
Even if someone was on TV the chances of seeing it again were slim to none unless you or someone you knew taped it, standup wasn't a big TV thing outside talk shows and comedians changed every show
Roy chubby brown I remember was making Diana jokes very soon after it happened but because a hundred camera phones weren't being pointed at him hardly anybody will ever know
The Danish subsection was spot on IMHO. I wish he had gone harder (I know he can)
This guy was a very popular, mainstream TV presenter. Not just some fringe, offensive comedian. You should check out Frankie Boyle. He's Scottish so you know he's gonna be even better/worse. 🤣
A late Irish comedian was ex-communicated by the Catholic Church for his sketches and jokes about the Pope and the Church. He raised a glass to it, Irish Whiskey of course.
Frankie is/was part of Jimmy’s writing team. Love them both.
What is the most offensive joke in America at the moment? Your new president.
😂😂😂 trump trump 🏴
They've got A LONG way to go before US catches up with UK, for jokes for leaders.
The last, and the new one, show that really EVERYONE can become president
This is like watching Ned Flanders trying to prove that he's relaxed and easy going. Okaley Dokely, we believe you.
Actually, this seems pretty tame by his standards 😂
8:00 search him now and u will see that it didnt change
Well given your slightly American sensitivity I'm surprised you covered this one "on air" as it were lol. Glad but surprised.
The funniest thing is that most dead jokes were made within an hour of said death🤣
honestly? I have to say there really shouldn't be anything "off limits" (once some time has passed of course) but then again I'd like to think I'm a bit of a comedy "purist" I quite enjoy George Carlin's stuff or Billy Connolly's for example.
You have to realise that, here in the UK, we use humour to deal with and process horrific events. I remember, less than a day after she died, there were jokes about Princess Di - things commenting on her having a halo now, oh wait that's a steering wheel. A day after she died.
With 9/11, you need to realise we had experienced a decades long terrorism campaign by the IRA, so again - humour to deal. That's just how we are.
Yes, it does make you a bad person, we're all terrible people for laughing :)
There are better collections of his most offensive jokes that come from different shows. Worth watching those too.
Jimmy has the most distinctive laugh. Really one of a kind.
He laughs in reverse. Ah ah ah aaah!
The Alzheimer's joke loses its context in an isolated clip like this, but the set began with the same joke.
I’m British and I’ve seen the Royal Variety show on TV, probably twice maybe 3 times in my 44 years life. So I don’t know that much about it, but I think it’s an annual event at a theatre, where the Royal Family attends.
Nothing in the world can't be laughed at by us British, If we didn't laugh we would cry, and we don't cry.
Rubbish
@@TheresaReynolds-l7m We are born ,then we die. You and I are so tiny in the schemes of the universe that we amount to nothing. do you want to cry about it or laugh . You make your choice.
Tyler, one thing i can tell you here is its pretty often that you get the Joke texts like "Strange? bloke on the hot dog stand just text me "who ordered the jumbo on floor 43?" BEFORE you even hear about the tragedy.
I think most decent uk comedians are offensive tbh and I doubt he would do it differently now 😊
theres definitely a cultural difference, i think us british tend to laugh at ourselves and not take things seriously as a trauma reflex from all the hardships, especially during WW2 and the blitz where your neighbour is bombed by germans and you just smile and carry on. so when we hear a joke about a tragedy, we do take it sincerely to the heart, but on the surface we need to laugh so we can claw some kind of positivity and optimism from a bad situation. with the british, never confuse a bad joke or laughing at tragedy as a sign of disrespect or apathy; a brit laughing at you or one of your family dying is the highest honour and form of respect we are capable of giving.
Laugh at yourselves and not take things seriously,does that include football ?
One of Carr's common phrases to the audience is, "Too Soon?" When there is an intake of breath after a joke that is soon after an event.
Jimmy Carr is a great guy I met him once on a train honestly very nice guy.
I love Jimmy Carr, he is totally hilarious, best of British humour!!
I’m British. When a mutual friend of my dead brother(suicide) and I asked as an aside, “ Oh how’s Brian doing?”, my instantaneous reply was,” Oh he’s still dead!”
Yeah, a British tour - 'Royal Variety Performance' done in front of the Queen/King. Watching your face on this is amazing. What a rollercoaster.
I was born and raised in Oklahoma and clearly remember the OKC bombing. Imagine my surprise, as an American, nay, Oklahoma ex-pat, seeing Jimmy Carr 'LIVE FROM NORWICH' (older Brits will get this joke, btw) and he actually made a joke about the bombing. My poor, shy, British husband kept hitting my arm to make sure I kept schtum and he also had to give his workmakes (it was all part of a Christmas do) death threats so they didn't alert Jimmy to my presence. I still, to this day, marvel over the odds of that happening and really wish I'd forced my hubby to stay late so I could meet Jimmy Carr that night. To be fair, while the bombing was tragic and I still, even after all these years, can get upset by it, I did laugh at Jimmy. I suppose the British way of dealing with grim things - stiff upper lip, make a joke, etc - had started to set in and therefore I could see the humour in what he said. Don't ask me *what* he said, it was a long time ago now, but I did chuckle.
The first joke was mostly about Paris. That was the city where Diana had her fatal crash, probably caused by the chauffered mercedes driving too fast through the tunnel.
The "Royal Variety" is an annual show where a member of the Royal Family is present and a load of different acts perform. There was much alleged bad blood between Diana and the royal family after she split from Prince Charles.
So yes. A lot of his jokes do really only make sense to someone with a decent knowledge of the UK, our history and culture.
The Royal Variety Show is a show done each year and members of the royal family attend this performance. So the joke is that Jimmy is suggesting to make this joke about Princess Diana's death, on a stage, in front of her family. That's why it's 'offensive'.
Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in a tunnel in paris while fleeing paparazzi. The joke was the UK got a fountain and all paris got was a slow down sign