Battle in the Box: kids’ birthday parties have better games than Jimmy Carr’s tedious new show
Two teams of celebrities are locked in a container for 24 hours and compete for points as the comedian host tells the most soulless jokes you’ve ever heard. You’ll yearn for Taskmaster
April 2024
Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer review – a moral vacuum laughing at his own jokes
The comedian is desperate to make out his jokes about rape and domestic abuse will get him cancelled. In reality, this Netflix special is about as edgy as a Jim Davidson set
January 2024
TV tonight
TV tonight: Sheila Hancock is on sparkling form in a brilliant interview
Amol Rajan welcomes the actor, singer and author. Plus: a double dose of Jimmy Carr. Here’s what to watch this evening
October 2022
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Doctor Who; Jimmy Carr Destroys Art; The Pact; The Devil’s Hour – review
TV tonight
TV tonight: Jimmy Carr’s controversial art destruction show
Tasteless Hitler painting show will be Channel 4’s downfall
Hitler’s watercolours are best ignored, but you have to reckon with the power of Eric Gill
Martha Gill
Backlash against C4 show that may destroy works by Hitler and Picasso
Channel 4 buys painting by Hitler – and may let Jimmy Carr destroy it
June 2022
TV review
Backstage With Katherine Ryan review – there are laughs, but why does it feel so cringemaking?
Backstage With Katherine Ryan – the secrets of standups revealed, kind of
April 2022
‘Everyone has one cancellation in them’: standup Joanne McNally on her unfiltered comedy
From career doldrums to fending off pantless stage invaders, the straight-talking Irish comic’s journey to becoming a must-see act has been a wild ride
February 2022
Protest takes place outside Jimmy Carr Cambridge gig in response to Roma joke
Add genocide of Gypsies to national curriculum, say charities
The Guardian view on anti-Traveller prejudice: the aim must be inclusion
Roma accuse government of hypocrisy over Jimmy Carr joke
Jimmy Carr peddled shocking bigotry – but the Tory handwringing reeks of hypocrisy
Owen Jones
Jimmy Carr’s joke about Roma people ‘deeply disturbing’, says No 10
New laws would hold Netflix to account after ‘shocking’ Jimmy Carr joke
Jimmy Carr condemned for ‘abhorrent’ Holocaust joke about Roma people
