Jimmy Carr hosts a unique TV experiment, where the audience decides whether to cancel controversial artists and offensive artworks, and the works they vote to cancel will be literally destroyed.
Markus Meechan is a criminal. Guilty of posting a YouTube video judged “grossly offensive” and containing menacing, anti-Semitic and racist material. He claims the video was a joke. Others claim, Markus is a Nazi. But what does the prosecution of a YouTube comedian mean for freedom of expression – is a censorious state overstepping the mark? Or are there some things you just shouldn’t joke about?
Andrew Doyle is a British comedian, playwright, journalist, and political satirist who previously co-wrote Jonathan Pie and is creator of the fictitious character Titania McGrath. He regularly writes for Spiked magazine and runs Comedy Unleashed.
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