Comedian Jimmy Carr’s ‘vile’ joke at deaf audience member causes outrage: ‘This isn’t comedy!’
nypost.comMetro the stand-up comedian used his platform to “put down those who have a tough life”.She said the controversial comedian picked her out of the front row because she was wearing a beret, asking her why she was wearing it.“I used my right hand to lift my beret, exposing my hearing aid.
I hoped he was at least a decent guy and would move on, knowing I was deaf. It didn’t work. It had the opposite effect as I was like a sitting deaf duck now,” she said.She said she was using a transcribing app on her phone to read what Carr was saying during the set.He then addressed Ahlen again and asked if she was going to “call for backup from the French Resistance”, she says.‘Then, he was talking about how you can say anything about deaf people because they can’t hear you,’ she told Metro. ‘I was shocked – this isn’t comedy!’“Comedy is an amazing tool for progressive change, yet Jimmy decided to use his platform to put down those who have a tough life,” she said.“There’s a joke and then there’s absolutely insulting.
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