Jack Dee DEFENDS Jimmy Carr’s Holocaust travellers joke

Jack Dee has jumped to the defence of fellow comedian Jimmy Carr after he sparked outrage with a joke about the travelling community during the Holocaust.

The funnyman, 60, appeared on Good Mornining Britain on Monday, where he discussed the recent furore surrounding Jimmy’s His Dark Material’s gig.

Jack said that he did not want the state to intervene on ‘what can and can’t be said’, following calls for a police investigation into Jimmy’s controversial gag.

He told the hosts: ‘These things come round and they go. Jimmy set it up as an unacceptable thing to say. A month later someone got hold of it and tried to make a…