Comedian Jimmy Carr’s jokes about the Holocaust “shouldn’t be allowed on television,” the UK culture secretary believes UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said on Saturday that issues like the recent controversial Netflix comedy special by Jimmy Carr, who joked about the Nazis killing Roma, could “very shortly” be addressed in a new legislation that would […]
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‘Stupid joke’ at Nazi death camp Auschwitz lands tourist in trouble
A Dutch woman has been fined for performing a Nazi salute outside the camp’s main gate Regional police said a woman was detained on Sunday after performing a Nazi salute outside the iconic ‘Arbeit macht frei’ (‘Work makes one free’) entrance gate of the former Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp near the city of Oswiecim in […]
Joke that ‘turned the tide’ against Merkel’s heir in German election revealed
Armin Laschet came to regret laughing at a witty comment even before his party was defeated at the polls A clip of Angela Merkel’s ‘successor’ Armin Laschet laughing amid a briefing on deadly flooding in Germany has been credited with him losing a lot of support ahead of the vote. Now the media is saying […]
Politician sorry for ‘lie down & enjoy’ rape joke
Opposition lawmaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar in the southern Indian state of Karnataka had to apologize after he sparked outrage for joking that when “rape is inevitable” it’s better to “lie down and enjoy it.” Kumar made the sexist remark amid a discussion about chaos in Karnataka’s state assembly by the chamber’s speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri, […]