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Media Storm talks comedy and 'cancellation' with Deborah Frances-White and Isabelle Farah

The Guilty Feminist

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What Does Jimmy Carr's Joke Do in the Real World?

Jimmy Carr's jokes are pretty much all constructed the same way. He writes a really clever joke that makes you laugh because he pulls the rug. And that's why when he chooses to write about people that are already having a structurally violent slash physically violent experience, it adds weight to that camp. People sitting at home, I hate them, that joke now becomes part of their arsenal. It doesn't matter whether he's racist or if Ricky Gervais is transphobic. Because some people are.

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