Comedian Jimmy Carr was awarded the Certificate of Irish Heritage award in 2013, which awarded “descendants of previous generations of Irish citizens in an official way” from 2011 to 2015.
However, his father Jim Sr, has urged the Mayor of Limerick, Limerick City and County Council to strip his son of the award after Jimmy Carr wrote in his book, “I’m the son of two immigrants from Limerick who moved to Slough (they moved from a shit town to another shit town, I guess they knew what they liked.)”.
Along with claiming that he "crossed a line", Jim Sr has also called his son "one sick comedian".
“Leave all that aside, I don’t want somebody writing that about Limerick in a book", he added. “His defence will be, ‘they are only words, I’m only having a laugh’".
Jimmy Carr also received flack over a joke he made about the Holocaust on his Netflix show Dark Material last December.
“When people talk about the Holocaust, they talk about the tragedy and horror of six million Jewish lives being lost to the Nazi war machine,” Carr said on his show.
“But they never mention the thousands of Gypsies that were killed by the Nazis. No one ever wants to talk about that, because no one ever wants to talk about the positives".
