Jimmy Carr breaks silence on Netflix backlash saying he's 'going down swinging'

Jimmy Carr has addressed the widespread backlash he has faced over his Netflix comedy special in which he made a "deeply offensive" joke about the travelling community and the Holocaust.

The controversial comedian, 49, told an audience at a show on Sunday night that he was "going to get cancelled" as he broke his silence on the anger sparked by 'His Dark Material'.

The one-hour Netflix show, which was released in December last year, features a “trigger warning” from Mr Carr at the beginning as he admits his performance contains “terrible things”.

In a clip that has now been widely shared on social media, mentions “six million Jewish lives being lost” before making a disparaging remark about the deaths of thousands of Gypsies at the hands of the Nazis.

The Traveller Movement, a charity supporting the traveller community in the UK, has now launched a petition to Netflix calling for the “removal of the segments of His Dark Material which celebrates the Romani genocide”.

Following the backlash, Mr Carr refused to answer questions as he arrived at the Whitley Bay Playhouse for his Terribly Funny Show last night, the Mirror reports, but seemingly addressed the furore when on stage.

During the show, he made quips about being cancelled, telling his audience: "The joke that ends my career is already out there."

He opened his show by joking: "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Look at that, I've already upset the non-binary community.

"That has to be a f***ing record."

After being heckled by a woman who asked "are we going to talk about the holocaust?", the comedian replied: "We are going to talk about cancel culture, the whole thing.

"We are going to talk about f***ing everything people. Relax."

He later added: "What I am