Jimmy Carr – Terribly Funny

April 23, 2023 | Posted by Peter Jakobsen | THEATRE, THUMBNAIL REVIEWS | 0 Comments |

(Thebarton Theatre, 22 April 2023)

For the better part of 2 hours late on Saturday night, comedian Jimmy Carr entertained a packed theatre with his urbane brand of dark, un-PC humour. His promotional statement: “Jimmy’s show contains jokes about all kinds of terrible things. Terrible things that might have affected you or people you know and love. But they’re just jokes – they are not the terrible things.” It takes a certain courage to make jokes about rape, paedophilia, poor parenting, and death, but generally he gets away with it, and he is well onto the next bon mot before some in the crowd have stopped wincing.

In sum, Carr’s act is pure filth. But there is no malice in him, and he is terribly funny. What more can you ask?

“Having political correctness at a comedy show is like having health and safety at a rodeo.”

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