It’s true: Jimmy Carr is actually the real victim of the Porajmos.

Jimmy Carr, if you’re blissfully unaware, is the latest smug, suited punk to take a shock-jock style swipe at Holocaust victims in his latest Netflix special titled “His Dark Material”. All the apologies to Phillip Pullman, who actually tweeted about Carr lifting his comedy special title from Pullman’s book series. And they say the gypsies steal!

Carr’s “joke”, which you can give a Goog- I won’t be linking it here- was about the sunny side of the Holocaust, specifically that the silver lining to the Nazi reign of terror was that a shit-ton of Roma people died. If you’re looking for something lighthearted that’s not a video of a cat boxing or a dog doing zoomies, I’d highly recommend that you look up some of the absolute hilarious images of Roma children being led to gas chambers, or shot into pits. If you really want to put a smile on your face, check out the medical experiments. Mengele had a real fondness for experimenting on Roma kids. Adorable!

Of course, all of this has generated quite a bit of controversy for Carr, who is now whining about “Mah Free Speech” and saying that he made the joke not to mock a traditionally maligned and still persecuted group of people, but instead to open up a dialog about the atrocities that the Roma face(d). In fact, according to Carr, he was helpfully providing a teachable moment to shine a big, beautiful spotlight on the forgotten Roma genocide.

Helpful sweetheart that he is aside, Carr’s generated quite a response from detractors on Twitter. One such person calls themselves “Head Gypsy”, which confuses me because I thought I was the head gypsy. Apparently, the Roma and Traveller communities aren’t taking too kindly to being used as a punchline.

Here’s the thing; Carr has the right to free speech. He also has the right to get his ass kicked in a dark alley by a scrappy group of Roma children. Trust me, a ten-year-old Roma child could take that smarmy milk-toast MFer any day of the week and twice on Sundays. Surely, if he’s so familiar with the plight of traveling folx, he must be well versed in stereotypes about street justice.

I spent a few days deliberating giving this walking beer fart any more airtime. After all, this is the time when we all get into our camps, right? You’ll have people defending Carr’s right to free speech- which I’ll remind you, he still has. Nobody arrested Carr after his special, and at least a dozen people green-lit his remarks before they ever made it to Netflix. He’s not in jail. He’s not some kind of freedom fighter for unfunny white dudes who can joke genocide any longer. He’s a hack, and if he gets de-platformed, so what?

Because, that’s what Carr’s really crapping his diaper about- not free speech, de-platforming. This isn’t the cancel culture machine rolling over another hapless dude who just happened to say the wrong thing. Carr thought out the joke, wrote it, refined it, ran it by his people, and then said it on television. It wasn’t a gaffe, it was a deliberate move that he thought he would get away with because anti-Roma sentiment is still hella strong.

We need to make a distinction here between someone saying the wrong thing 20 years ago and a comedian, in 2022, who made the conscious decision to mock an entire group of people as the punchline of his show. It wasn’t an accident folks, and if wee Jimmy gets his Netflix special taken away, I won’t be crying about it.

In fact, that will give him some more time to reflect. Maybe read up a little on the people he so gleefully cheered on to the gas chambers and death pits, visit the camps, and grow the fuck up.