Jeremy Clarkson says 'cancelling Jimmy Carr is sick' as he defends comic over gypsy joke

As a punchline, Jimmy makes a disparaging remark about the deaths of thousands of gypsies at the hands of the Nazis, saying it was a “positive” of the Holocaust.

A petition urging Netflix to remove the joke has so far received over 15,000 signatures.

Jeremy has since addressed the joke in his latest column, claiming that Jimmy should not be cancelled for doing a job he was “born to do”.

He wrote in The Times: “It’s what he was born to do. He makes people laugh, and that, in my book, is the single kindest thing one human being can do to another.

source: express.co.uk