David Baddel explains why he thinks Jimmy Carr’s ‘close friend’ Holocaust joke is ‘indefensible’

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David Baddel has defended Jimmy Carr for his controversial jokes about the Holocaust, stating that they are “indefensible.”

The 8 Out of 10 Cats presenter and comedian has been widely criticized for a joke he made in the Netflix comedy His Dark Material, which was just picked up after its release on Christmas Day 2021.

The comedian says in the clip: “When people talk about the Holocaust, they are talking about the tragedy and horror of the six million Jews lost in the Nazi war machine. But they never mention the thousands of Gypsies who were killed by the Nazis.”

Then Carr adds, “No one ever talks about it because no one wants to talk about the positives.”

While the clip was circulating on social media, several MPs and the Holocaust Remembrance Day Fund criticized Carr and called on Netflix to remove the private clip.

Badel, who said he is a “close friend” of Carr, shared his opinion on the matter on Saturday (February 5), explaining why he thinks the joke deserves criticism.

The writer and comedian shared a line that once told his audience about telling his Holocaust jokes.

He went on: “Obviously you can tell a holocaust joke that it’s cruel, inhuman, racist, and vivid. Or you can tell the one who targets the oppressors, or draws attention to the underlying evil, or highlights the humanity of the victims.”

Badell told his followers on Saturday, “I said this every night during my Trolls: Not The Dolls tour as part of arguing a little bit that it’s not the topic of the joke that matters, it’s the details of the single joke. Obviously Jimmy Carr was the first.”

He then shared what he believed to be an acceptable holocaust joke told by Devorah Bohm, adding, “That’s the joke I’ve been leading, which, unlike Jimmy, I think is defensible.”

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Jimmy Carr has been criticized for making a ‘racist’ joke about travelers

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Badell also added that “Jimmy is a good friend of mine and pretty cool in general,” saying, “It makes no difference what I feel or think about this particular joke.”

“In the meantime, far from stupid discussions about the limits of comedy,” said the comedian, “I sympathize with the Roma and Sinti community who suffered so much during the Holocaust.”

Carr has not yet commented on the controversy.

Earlier this week, Badil, who is Jewish, was praised for his “eloquent” detailing of Whoopi Goldberg’s controversial comments about the Holocaust.

Goldberg was suspended from the American talk show The View for saying the Holocaust was “not about race,” an observation that led to widespread criticism,

David Badel has been praised for his “eloquent” interpretation of Whoopi Goldberg’s comments about the Holocaust

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The problem with that is that there are many issues – and I’m a fan of Whoopi Goldberg – but there are a lot of issues with what she said, said Badel, who appeared on Good Morning Britain to discuss this. It reveals a lot about the confusion people feel about anti-Semitism.”

“One of the main things happening here is resistance to the idea that anti-Semitism is racist,” he said. “What does Whoopi Goldberg think? What a lot of people think is religious intolerance.

He continued by saying that “the Nazis were not interested in faith; they were interested in racial purity.”

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