Jimmy Carr - Paralympics

Jimmy Carr talking about the paralympics.

[@spencerjohnson2911]

It's amazing how his responses are within less than a millisecond.

[@iVironment]

ah the wonders of robotics

[@mimoochodom2684]

After viewing Jim's vids, I've come to the conclusion that his jokes are secondary to his audience and heckler interactions. Often I've felt that if a comedian interacts with their audience , at length, he/she doesn't have enough credible material to go by but this guy has sold us candy and we love it. What a great spontaneous talent. Hilarious.

[@Bernard-John]

what a strange thing to write.

[@Bernard-John]

@Paul In Kyushu who cares when he is so funny,chill out

[@Stuff8522]

Paranormal Olympics. Nailed it.

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

Ah - you only think that you nailed it when it was your spirit guide that whispered it in your ear! /sarcasm at paranormalists

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

@@DavidAndrewsPEC Oh my god, that would be awesome.. really sets my imagination running.

[@oliverhayhoe]

The bloke who yelled "spacker olympics" deserves a medal.

[@JK_Clark]

Watching the Paralympics has taught me so much about acceptance of other people's different abilities but also... If they can lift more, throw further and run faster than me, how come they still get to park closer to Tesco?

[@philosopher1a]

haha

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

Now that deserves more than 4 likes per year.. Are you quoting a comedian? That was a very well formed joke.

[@JK_Clark]

@@drewlovelyhell4892 thanks! I know a good joke, when I steal one.

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

@@JK_Clark 😆

[@TranscendentLion]

Oddly enough, he's about right with the Paralympics being essentially a sports day for injured servicemen.

[@klystron2010]

"Colonel Dan, you ain't got no legs!"

[@ZzonkedMCFC]

He's so quick to come up with his jokes, I'm genuinely impressed.

[@thekingofnorway3465]

What's better than winning the paralympics? Having legs

[@reactions5783]

being cured?

[@mikefraser4513]

It's not about winning...it's about sitting there.

[@TheJusticeNpeace]

Damn, the best response would be "Parasite", imagine all the woooooooooo!

[@prnothall9302]

oh , now that's good.

[@eazybe1]

He is brilliant!

[@pennydesouza]

Jimmy Carr never fails to impress. Pleasing wordplay.

[@runasto]

I just can't help but laugh. He is an amazing on-the-spot comedian. He might be offensive, but boy is he funny!

[@petehall1985]

I have just watched this with other disabled athletes and we all laughed it clever well delivered comedy not cheap tat and that's how he gets away with it

[@0dWHOHWb0]

Paraplegic isn't a bad guess though, and not entirely incorrect. It was originally named after paraplegics and olympics, the official story for the name was changed as an afterthought.

[@nelsonricardo3729]

0dWHOHWb0 Yay, revisionist history!?

[@scarlettryuken4320]

+Nelson Ricardo no because there are other people in the paralympics like blind people?

[@0dWHOHWb0]

Mason Wong As I understand, a big part of why they changed it is due to the evolution from an event held for people with spinal cord injuries, to people confined to wheelchairs to people with all kinds of disabilities in its modern form. Since it no longer makes sense the official explanation of the word has changed to accommodate.

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

Nope. That's not revisionism - it's factism. Originally a portmanteau: paraplegic + olympics Now a portmanteau: parallel + olympics Because the committee that runs the games felt that the original portmanteau was no longer inclusive enough. The original games, played in 1948 at Stoke Mandeville Hospital had been organised by neurologist Ludwig Guttman who had said of the games that they would be seen as:“the paraplegics’ equivalent of the Olympics”. SMH is the home of the National Spinal Injuries Centre in the UK, and much of this dealt with lower spinal cord injuries leading to paraplegic conditions.

[@jez9999]

No-one in a wheelchair has ever walked out hahahahahahahahahaha

[@eddyk3]

Was off to bed around midnight, thought i'd watch a few Jimmy Carr videos before going to bed. It's now 3:40.

[@thecubba85]

If you search for 'Harry Crosby Comedy Podcast pt2: Paralympics', those two comedians rip the hell out of the Paralympics!!

[@esufmp]

This bit was used by Ricky Gervais in an old Xfm episode with Steve Merchant and Karl 'the K Man' Pilkington. I think Ricky and Steve knew Jimmy from their days on Meet Ricky Gervais and The 11 O'Clock Show.

[@solosulla9648]

Weird innit?

[@zetarry]

This guy is crazy! I love him

[@pccalcio]

How !? How does it do it !? he's amazing.. no other comedian would, but he does it and he's damn good

[@Prometheus4096]

Thank you Bush and Blair for all the medals!

[@Bernard-John]

classic comedian,broke the mold.

[@SuperChaos002]

This man is a genius, love him.

[@1legninja]

I've have participated in several paralympic events and this is too funny xD

[@zetarry]

He makes jokes about every single delicate subject, so its all good.

[@tstlz10]

lol i fucking died when that guy yelled out paratroopers

[@OpalRavenna]

I felt guilty laughing, but not enough to stop!! Hahahaha!

[@THECARKUS]

I feel so bad that I laughed so hard.

[@pauldog]

What is there to joke about, if you can't joke about troubles and issues in the world? "Lol I came home from a great day at work and went to bed" yep, that's funny.

[@dyingsun23]

He seemed to be toning it down in this segment. Usually he pushes the boundaries a lot further, but this was oddly restrained for Jimmy.

[@MrKleenexDude]

I'm in a wheelchair and thought this was hilarious.

[@jsegovia]

Would you give him a standing ovation though?

[@VaibhavSingh-cg5zs]

That’s because u can’t stand up for ur rights! Wait a second!

[@masteraso]

You know something like that happened on a Junstin Bieber concert, The whole front role was with this years paralympic weelchair medalists, and than a miracle happened, after the first song they all stood up and left.

[@MrXclusivemoe]

the special Olympics are the one where there all winners looooooool classic

[@ItsJakeTheBrake]

originally it actually was paraplegic olympics, but to also represent people with other handicaps they changed the meaning to the greek "para" >> beside, alongside

[@chelseayoung9797]

Kevin Bridges also did an act about the Paralympics which I would recommend watching. both comedians absolutely hilarious but have very different styles

[@crystalheart9]

I hope I don't get a bunch of hate for this post but if every topic that offended someone was off limits for comedians there would be no comedy left. I saw a video with Joan Rivers and she made a joke about the deaf and a guy in the audience got angry and said she shouldn't make fun of the deaf because he had a deaf child. She said her mother is deaf and comedy is to help us deal with life's problems. Anyway she also made a joke about her husband's suicide and I actually laughed. I know what it is like to have a loved one die that way and her joke was about how you feel when that happens. She said, I was so angry when my husband committed suicide, if he ever came back I would kill him.

[@AutomaticDuck300]

crystalheart9 I agree. In comedy, if you aren't crossing the line, you're towing it. And jokes exist to point out the absurdity in something. It's rarely if ever laughing at or making fun of the situation itself or the people involved. It's laughing at or making fun of the circumstances surrounding it.

[@crystalheart9]

You said it so much better than I could have!

[@tomkenning5482]

Offensiveness is just an extreme form of subversiveness which is the root of comedy. Piers Morgan saying something offensive and Frankie Boyle doing it are different, as long as there's a joke there.

[@VestigialHead]

+crystalheart9 Yes people today think that if something offends them it should not be allowed to exist. It is completely the opposite of the truth. It is good to talk about offensive things. That is how we can understand them and get over them. Comedian Steve Hughes has a hilarious set on being offended. Must watch.

[@klystron2010]

It's not like the child heard the joke.

[@Pedro-tl7jg]

1:55 there is ONE dude that gets it before everyone else...

[@snorben]

They do. There is a good video on here of them at an event,talking about the nature and parameters of comedy

[@Flinklehurst]

As somebody severely crippled by an unmanageably large ballsack, I'd just like to confirm that I and my brothers in disability are willing to pretend to be cool with jokes like this so that people will consider us brave and self-assured.

[@Alladin671]

I think Jimmy has done more for any person with a physical deformity or loss of a body part than anyone who says: "don't look at the person over there, it's not nice to look." Let's just accept people who are different for what they are instead of thinking that noticing them is offensive. I certainly wouldn't want sympathy from a horse because I only have 2 legs.

[@JacobZ-gm8jd]

para legs that don't work

[@MuslimahMelika]

When Ellie Simmonds won her gold medal her dad was Happy. Or Bashful. Or Sneezy...

[@LMvonLebkuchen]

I watched a program a while back where a comedian with cerebral palsy (Josh Blue?) did some jokes about having a girlfriend in a wheelchair. The bit ended with the old joke about how they broke up because "I guess I just pushed her too far". So there's at least two comedians who have joked about it

[@xSachBumBashx]

I guessed it stood for 'Paralyzed Are Really Acrobatic'

[@ColeOfCentauri]

It’s like a T-shirt that says “I hate blinks” on it. No blind person has ever been offended by it.

[@thehangover69]

13 people are watching this from the comfort of their wheel chairs.

[@Shiryuk0]

Yes the Spartans keep only the strong alive and raised them as soldiers. In the end it was their refusal to accept change that lead them to their defeat.

[@LeWiS2K9SMUDGEMOONED]

saw this & just though brutal

[@MarekNowakowski]

as someone on wheels i find it uplifting when people don't walk on eggshells around the topic. People being PC as if we were fragile and stupid may think they are the good guys, but no one likes tip-toeing around them. and surely someone insane enough to play rugby on a freaking minitank, deserves some jokes anyway

[@Rockwarrior2004]

Oh my god, Jimmy Carr has no boundaries. He is crude, funny, but crude.

[@johnfrancis8913]

you have to laugh, you don't want to, but you have to :)

[@AutomaticDuck300]

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[@MahoganyDesk]

"Although, there is a legless gag in there somewhere, but we'll leave it." I thought he was going to say, "...but we'll walk away from that."

[@mahler71]

Jimmy Carr,Richard Nixon with a sense of humour.

[@AutomaticDuck300]

Blow football. It's a table-top game in the UK where one person sits at one end of the table and the other person sits at the other end of the table. You put a ping pong ball in the middle of the table and each person has to blow it through a make-shift goal on the other side. i.e. if they were paraplegic (paralysed from the waist down and in a wheelchair), that is the only "sport" you can really do.

[@MFrank1985]

the first part of this ive heard on the ricky gervais show

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

Cool.. I actually learned something..

[@patrickwhittaker8842]

I’m sure Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant did this exact same bit on their xfm show right down to the blow football joke

[@stipplegripple]

i think jimmy and frankie boyle would get along famously

[@BigSleepyJoeCooking]

I always thought the parolympics and special Olympics were the same thing.

[@gablison]

lol the first word i thought of was paranormal!

[@zicuenca]

Read my comment again. I was actually praising him. :)

[@rich0292]

"...but we'll sidestep that."

[@wanker4761]

the Para stands for PARODY. Hahahahahahahaha.

[@RealityCheck6T9]

+wanker4761 Good one

[@BlueXonar]

+wanker4761 Right but its called the Paralympics not the Parolympics... :P

[@simonpreston1693]

Surely that would be for people out on parole. :D

[@OsmaroAcosta]

We all read the title before coming here... sickos.

[@Vaeviktis]

Whoa. lol.

[@kiemul136]

You get 1 trolling point!

[@Madferitleeds]

Good on Jimmy for not paying tax. Tax is indistinguishable from theft. Cut more and privatise the public sector

[@estebanrey]

"Paratroopers? What they were all injured in service and thought we might as well have a sports day?" Well actually that kind is how the Paralympics did start.

[@OptimusSledge]

No there isn't. There is Godwin's Law, a theory that says the longer an internet discussion runs, the more likely it is that someone will refer to Hitler. It makes no comment on whether this ends the discussion or if the person making the comment automatically loses.

[@00daveyr]

Hence his mine field comment

[@HughEntwistleMagic]

ROFL at the last joke

[@nickfromCO]

if roger federer and morrissey bred a child it would be jimmy carr.

[@ruadh_bancroft]

parallell

[@PixPunxel]

Comedy as it was supposed to be. Non politically correct

[@Capillus]

"Para" means "next to" or "similar to but of lower quality"

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

Yes, like Paramount.

[@LasseBmann]

Did you know there is an actual theory which says that an internet discussion ends the second someone makes a hitler reference? Because it is believed that the discussion has reached such a low point that it cannot be saved.

[@kevinporter3212]

parallel

[@Dennischambers100000]

they write jokes together

[@zowitsa]

I see Jimmy Carr is also a fan of Ricky Gervais' XFM show.

[@Madferitleeds]

You also called me a Capitalist? If you mean supporting freedom to trade then yes I am. If you're implying that I'm rich, you couldn't be more wrong.

[@andyt2k]

I genuinely didn't know what the para part meant, I assumed it was to do with para being a disability thing

[@Widdekuu91]

Oh god...I thought Paralyzed as well...I feel weird now...

[@Krissmundur]

Some times this guy speaks so fast that i think that the video speed if too fast and even lower the speed, then he sounds like a normal person but the people in the background sound weird (the laughing)

[@monkeys350]

Haha yeah I know what you mean man. Political "correctness" gets to me too.

[@BearumScarum]

Like this from Jimmy, didn't think it was at all offensive, unlike contributions from some more classless comedians.

[@buttonscasper]

Elliot Saunders haha

[@zetarry]

Lol. Hi back :)

[@theknowbeing]

Funny, Im still a top comment. Maybe popular opinion agrees with me, they just don't want to speak out. And for the record, I was replying to someone else that was hating on Jimmy Carr, and my response was more of a troll than how I actually feel. However, it does help people to see both sides of the argument. Youre welcome.

[@thanatos313games]

does that make you one as well since your obviously here?

[@goneutt]

This is the most sensitive Jimmy Carr has ever been

[@phoenixminor]

I think that the condescending tone and the disabled word are the true offense here.

[@TheMongo161]

what show is this from?

[@thanatos313games]

cant help but notice that you didnt answer my question.

[@SuperAudimaniac]

LemonZeppelin? Do I hint a musical reference?

[@iamthestig1]

What's the special olympics, then?

[@thejew1789]

We'll stand for isn't the right term there was it

[@Madferitleeds]

Disabled people don't get treated poorly in the UK. What a joke. Everyone has had to cut back. Disabled people are given money by the State to live on. That's not treating them poorly. A few cutbacks to this allowance is fair if everyone else has to as well.

[@KSal-t2d]

what did he mean when he was like " hang on that would be just below football". I didnt get it

[@thepaulbradley]

+Kareem Salem That would just be BLOW football...

[@deepshizzle1]

cheer up stop taking life so seriously

[@TheRabbitFear]

nothing wrong with his spelling grammar is slightly off though