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Kirsten McStay & Emma Wilson

Jimmy Carr protesters appear outside gig venue following Holocaust joke

Protesters gathered outside the venue of Jimmy Carr 's latest stand-up gig after he made an offensive joke about the Holocaust.

The comedian has faced criticism after he made a joke about Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in Netflix comedy special, His Dark Material, went viral.

In the controversial Netflix show, Jimmy joked about the Holocaust - in which six million Jews were systematically murdered by the Nazis overseen by Adolf Hitler - as he took aim at the thousands of Gypsies who were also killed by the regime.

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