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 NetflixOn the off chance you're not already familiar with the work of Jimmy Carr, he makes it very clear in the teasers for his new Netflix special Natural Born Killer that he not only "identif[ies] as a comedian," but he is an edgy one.
If you missed the trailers—or his Instagram post in which he preemptively apologizes to "[insert aggrieved party name here]"—don't worry, because Carr drives the point home the second the special begins. Opening with "people say you can't joke about anything these days—watch me now," the comic goes on to use a litany of buzzwords associated with anti-wokeness. Jokes that "might get me canceled" and a segment of deliberately "controversial jokes" ensure that Carr's agenda is not lost in translation.
The idea that Carr has to pre-warn his audience feels borderline insulting and becomes boring very quickly. He somehow manages to spoil his own punchlines by letting the audience's imagination run wild, auto-filling his own jokes in the same fashion for which he criticizes Apple's autocorrect feature. Carr's teaser plays off the idea that you can say something and not mean it, and his constant announcements seem to be his way of ensuring his comedy doesn't get conflated with his actual beliefs.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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