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The Hitler picture that Channel 4 just bought might be demolished by Jimmy Carr.
There were claims that Jimmy Carr’s show was trying too hard to be shocking.
The audience in the studio will vote on whether Jimmy Carr should destroy the Adolf Hitler picture that Channel 4 recently purchased.
The network’s new lineup included works by several “difficult“ artists with criminal histories, including Pablo Picasso, Rolf Harris, and Eric Gill.
In a television show airing later this month, Jimmy Carr will debate whether or not it is possible to detach a work of art from its creator in order to make a decision about which works should be destroyed.
Channel 4’s head of programming, Ian Katz, has stated that even if the live studio audience votes to keep the Hitler artwork, it will not be shown in the executive offices. Instead, it would be disposed of in an appropriate manner.
If the government privatizes Channel 4, he argued, a for-profit owner is less inclined to take such risks. Developing software like this is time-consuming and costly. And it’s probably not the best approach to run a company.
Katz provided an overview of the program’s content. He even went so far as to say that “people adore every sort of art.“ “So you have a supporter of Hitler,“ he said. Someone will defend not Hitler but the idea that a morality like his shouldn’t be used to decide whether or not a work of art should be created.
He said the show was a tribute to Channel 4’s “iconoclasm and irreverence,“ which has included broadcasting a live autopsy and doling out narcotics to viewers.
Channel 4 engaged an art expert to purchase Hitler’s works “from renowned auction houses,“ despite long-standing skepticism regarding the authenticity of these works. It’s “a vase of some kind“ by Picasso, not one of his paintings, because that’s all the broadcaster could afford.
The featured works on the presentation will be obliterated using a flamethrower and other destructive devices.
Carr’s own jokes have drawn criticism. Many anti-hate organizations were offended by a remark he made in a Netflix show earlier this year.
James Anthony Patrick Carr is a British-Irish comedian, TV host, writer, and actor. He was born on September 15, 1972. People both like and dislike him for the way he says controversial one-liners with a straight face. He started doing comedy in 1997, and he has hosted Channel 4 panel shows like 8 Out of 10 Cats, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, and The Big Fat Quiz of the Year many times.
Carr does stand-up comedy tours nonstop for most of the year, with only five weeks off in between. By the second day of the Edinburgh Festival in 2003, he had sold out all of the shows of his show Charm Offensive for the next month.
In 2004, he said he would sue Jim Davidson if he used a joke that Carr thought was his. When it became clear that the joke in question was an old one that had been used by many comedians for decades, the case was dropped. His show, A Public Display of Affection, went on tour all over the country. It started on April 9, 2005, at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury and ended on January 14, 2006, at the Gielgud Theatre in London’s West End. He also did his Off the TV show at the EICC during the Edinburgh Festival in August 2005. Jimmy Carr: Stand Up was his second DVD. It came out at the end of November 2005.
He started the Gag Reflex tour in August 2006, for which he won the 2006 British Comedy Award for “Best Live Stand-Up.“ Jimmy Carr: Comedian was his third DVD. It came out in November 2007. In 2003, he was named one of the 50 funniest comedians in Britain by the Observer. In 2007, the Channel 4 website had a poll for the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups. Jimmy Carr came in at number 12. Repeat Offender is the name of a new national tour that started in the fall of 2007. It began at the Edinburgh Festival. Carr started taking his new show, Joke Technician, on the road at the end of 2008.
On February 3, 2007, Carr’s performance in front of 50 people in London was shown live on Second Life at the same time.
His Rapier Wit tour began on August 20, 2009, with nine shows at the Edinburgh Festival. After that, he went on a tour of the UK. On November 2, 2009, he put out a DVD called Jimmy Carr: Telling Jokes. Also in July 2009, Carr went on tour with the Killers, a band from Las Vegas.
In October 2009, Sunday tabloid newspapers criticized Carr for making a joke about British soldiers who had lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said that the UK would have a strong team at the Paralympic Games in London in 2012. In an interview with The Guardian, Carr said that his own joke was “absolutely fine.“
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Jimmy Carr: Making People Laugh, his sixth Live DVD, came out on November 8, 2010.
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