Sensible Erection | Jimmy Carr's first show after being done for tax dodging

Saturday, 23 June 2012

Jimmy Carr's first show after being done for tax dodging

quote [ Bandwagon jumpers, ahoy! ]

It's been a bit too serious of late around here.

Now we need some laughs.

[humour] [by afrasr@8:54pmGMT] [+10]

Comments

sanepride said @ 9:25pm GMT on 23rd Jun
I have no idea who any of these people are.

afrasr said @ 9:42pm GMT on 23rd Jun
It's because you are a damn yank :P

bruceski said @ 12:26am GMT on 24th Jun [Score:2]
A damn yank who doesn't watch QI. I know who Jimmy Carr is.

pleaides said @ 3:16am GMT on 24th Jun
QI is fucking sensational. Hell, this show's new to me and I thought it was pretty funny, Sean Locke is really good.

bruceski said @ 4:03am GMT on 24th Jun [Score:1 Insightful]
Everyone has wonderful moments on QI. I think my favorite guy to watch is BRIAN BLESSED, mainly because he so lovingly embraces being a living parody of himself. It's the same thing that makes William Shatner and Adam West so amusing in these later years.

DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69 said @ 12:05pm GMT on 24th Jun [Score:1 Insightful]
I absolutely love Dave Mitchell. Regardless of the show he appears on, really.

cb361 said @ 10:05pm GMT on 23rd Jun [Score:2 Informative]
Jimmy Carr is a millionaire British comedian. We've been hearing a lot about him recently because it emerged that he has been involved with a legal tax minimisation/avoidance/loop-hope scheme running out of a tax haven to pay 1% UK tax. He's been widely vilified for this, and made public statement that he won't pay a penny more tax than he has to, but later said that he has withdrawn from the scheme.

It stirred up a bit of debate here about the morals and legality of tax. I guess that nobody wants to pay more tax than they have to, but paying 1% is clearly counter to the spirit of community. Also, I heard a tax official saying on the radio that their opinion of the efficacy of this avoidance scheme differs from the people running it, and they will definitely try to recover the tax that they consider is owed by Carr and the other people in the scheme.

That's about it. Not as exciting as all the scandals you have over there, but we make do.

CapnSilver said @ 10:32pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Funny Posh Nob acts like ordinary Posh Nob, swayed by public opinion to apologise for nobness.

sanepride said @ 12:17am GMT on 24th Jun
Hmm. Spirit of community. I like that.
Of course, on this side of the pond we call that 'socialism' and 'class warfare'. He probably would have done OK here, certainly would have garnered a lot more support from the libertarian crowd.

Naruki said @ 3:14am GMT on 25th Jun
You thinking of the Accept For Value lunatics? donnie is probably a big fan.

radioelectric said @ 12:19am GMT on 24th Jun
He's been widely vilified for this, and made public statement that he won't pay a penny more tax than he has to

Source for this? First I saw from him was an apology.

cb361 said @ 8:18am GMT on 24th Jun
"I pay what I have to and not a penny more" . I presume that this is what he believes and at first he thought he could ride it out. But when it didn't quickly blow over, and was in fact shaping up for a real shit-fest, he back-tracked like any politician and apologised.

radioelectric said @ 9:22am GMT on 24th Jun
A reported response to a heckle at a gig?

pleaides said @ 9:36am GMT on 24th Jun
I'm pretty sure he tweeted it all.

radioelectric said @ 12:18pm GMT on 24th Jun
If he did then he deleted it. I was watching his Twitter, first thing he put on there was the apology.

Ankylosaur said @ 10:42pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Next you'll tell us that Alan Davies hasn't been paying his television licence!

krimz said @ 10:50pm GMT on 23rd Jun
I've never liked Jimmy Carr's style of comedy, he seems a bit sexist.

afrasr said @ 11:04pm GMT on 23rd Jun [Score:1 Insightful]
yeah, that's probably you are used to the ultra PC environment of the US.

Travel outside the US, and spend some time away and you realize how sensitive the US is about everything

krimz said @ 11:11pm GMT on 23rd Jun
I'm from Sweden and I must admit to not being well-travelled outside my own country but I have to wonder about how widespread the PC environment is in the US? (I'm also a prude and only here for the articles.)

afrasr said @ 11:28pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Yeah apparently Sweden is like a feminist heaven these days.

I apologize for thinking you were American.

I would suggest get out of Sweden, and do some travel. There are more than a few of us SE's here in Vancouver. So maybe an excuse for a pub meet?

ahPook said @ 11:42pm GMT on 23rd Jun [Score:1 Interesting]
I say you should stay in Sweden and get a career in the erotic film business.

krimz said @ 6:19am GMT on 24th Jun
It's coming up with a good screen name that's stopping me. :P

sanepride said @ 6:46am GMT on 24th Jun
How about Max Von Seedough?

sanepride said @ 12:54am GMT on 24th Jun [Score:4 Insightful]
Are you also gonna apologize for broad generalizations, cultural stereotyping, and overreaching pontifications that have no basis in fact?

afrasr said @ 3:17am GMT on 24th Jun [Score:1 Underrated]
pffft

no :P

afrasr said @ 11:28pm GMT on 23rd Jun
http://www.vice.com/read/swedish-feminists-are-so-bored-theyre-telling-men-how-to-sit-on-the-bus

krimz said @ 11:42pm GMT on 23rd Jun
Meh, that kind of stuff is always blown out of proportion. Loudmouthed minorities with extreme opinions have a tendency to attract attention. Which was also why I wondered about how widespread the climate of political correctness really is in the US? It's a really huge country after all and it can't be all that homogeneous. I'm prepared to believe that a lot of media could be slanted, but how about people in general?

sanepride said @ 1:08am GMT on 24th Jun
You are correct. afrasr, as usual, has no idea what he's talking about.

bruceski said @ 4:19am GMT on 24th Jun [Score:1 Informative]
I'd say, oh, maybe 10-25% of people have some sort of trigger; something that sets them off even if used innocently, sometimes especially if used innocently. I'm not saying 25% of people are triggered by everything, but combine that with the size of the population and the tendency of Americans to feel that if they are put off by something they have a right to demand it stop (valid in some cases, but not all), and it can certainly sometimes feel like things are a bit out of control. Particularly in the media, where one slip-up can travel worldwide to be seen by whoever's most offended by it. If someone says something offensive in Swedish nobody's going to be angry without the help of a translator.

So yeah, publicly people tend to be very careful, but for individuals it depends on who they're around. I will joke with my friends that Portland maps should have zones labelled "here be minorities" (because the city is very white within most areas, referencing the "here be dragons" on old maps) and know they understand I'm poking fun at the situation and the racist folks who would prefer such labels, but I wouldn't use it in a standup routine because I can see someone getting angry before it registers that I was joking. In the same way, I won't make feminism jokes around some of my friends because the rage triggers before the joke does.

arrowhen said @ 10:28am GMT on 24th Jun [Score:1 Underrated]
Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.

Naruki said @ 3:16am GMT on 25th Jun
Wait, we can do that? And it's not considered rape?

theRed said @ 4:41am GMT on 25th Jun
If the joke doesn't go over well I'm pretty sure sex is out of the question.

bruceski said @ 12:27am GMT on 24th Jun [Score:1 Insightful]
Different cultures have different sensitivities, film at 11.

feeling constipated said @ 12:15am GMT on 24th Jun
Good, I've always like that moon faced fancy man.

And I hope he starts doing QI again soon, all those novelty guests are ruining the show (unless he's been on and I've missed it, in the that case carry on).

crwk8 said @ 12:50am GMT on 24th Jun
What the fuck is that thing climbing up his shirt at 34:24

http://youtu.be/AfMhfFWdDK0?t=34m24s

Viper said @ 1:55am GMT on 24th Jun
We call them flies. Primarily because they can fly

mechanical contrivance said @ 2:26am GMT on 24th Jun [Score:1 WTF]
Then why don't we call frogs hops and put them in beer?

headlessfriar said @ 3:15am GMT on 24th Jun
The way frogs absorb liquid through their skin, I'd bet they get drunk just from having beer spilled on them. If you killed a frog with alcohol poisoning, would it be like pre-marinating some beer basted frog legs?

mechanical contrivance said @ 2:42am GMT on 25th Jun
So pre-marinating is marinated the meat while it's still alive? I didn't know we were allowed to do that.

eIfish said @ 3:20pm GMT on 25th Jun

spite48 said @ 5:23am GMT on 24th Jun
Some of us do.

arrowhen said @ 10:24am GMT on 24th Jun
Then why don't we call fly-fishing fly-swimming? English is dumb!

Dioxin said @ 8:45am GMT on 24th Jun
The special effects budget on that show must be shit.