Despite my aversion to Channel 4's lager comedy slot on a Friday night. I don't know quite what I expected to see - maybe something similar to Angus Dayton on Have I Got News For You. But instead we were treated to 50 minutes of Carr shrugging and gurning to camera at every opportunity. In fact 50 minutes felt like a whole evening.
Of course having an imbecile like Louie Spence, who gives euthenasia a good name, on the panel was no help at all.
Although Carr apologised often enough, I'm still not clear what he is apologising for, nor why he should feel the need to do it on television. Okay so he paid less tax than he might have done had he not employed such a shrewd accountant. I'm sure he is far from being the only one. It is a perfectly legal plan and maybe HM Customs will get around to closing that loophole. (although knowing Cameron, I'm not so sure) In the meantime it is what it has always been - when one door shuts another one opens.
If Carr was apologising for his hypocritical comments and gags about other tax evaders I could perhaps understand, but of course there was no mention of that.
What I did notice was that Sean Lock made a remark about Her Majesty The Queen suggesting that she herself was a tax evader and has been for 60 years. Which only shows his total ignorance and guarantees that it will be a cold day in hell before I ever watch anything with him in it again!
But to get back to the point. As if all this wasn't enough the benighted comic now has to face this story in the Mail Online:
It seems that Carr senior having supported his son while he was struggling to make it in his chosen career (isn't that what parents are supposed to do?). Now feels aggrieved that he is being ignored by all three of his sons. It's quite clear that there is more than one side to this story and actually I'm beginning to feel the glimmerings of some sympathy for Jimmy Carr in spite of his desperately annoying donkey like laugh.
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