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Susan Knox

Irish venues asked to 'reconsider' hosting Jimmy Carr after sick Holocaust joke

Irish Traveller and Roma organisation Pavee Point has called on venues to to 'reconsider' hosting Jimmy Carr for his upcoming tour in Ireland in the wake of his controversial Holocaust 'joke'.

The 49-year-old comic sparked outrage in his new show His Dark Materials by making an 'abhorrent' remark about the Holocaust.

In the now viral clip from his new show, Jimmy said that people "never mention the thousands of Gypsies that were killed by the Nazis" because "no one ever wants to talk about the positives".

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