Jimmy Carr Tax Avoidance

[Lockhouse]

I'm with DA on this. It's the hypocrisy that's the issue and that whole "Do as I say, not as I do attitude" that permeates the whole of British society these days.

[MarillionFan]

I'm with DA on this. It's the hypocrisy that's the issue and that whole "Do as I say, not as I do attitude" that permeates the whole of British society these days.

Be nice to everyone.

[d000hg]

It is the hypocrisy of his comments about Barclays that annoys me.

He's a professional comedian not a political commentator. He says things people will laugh at, not things he believes.

A bit like an agent really, say what sells.

[DodgyAgent]

He's a professional comedian not a political commentator. He says things people will laugh at, not things he believes.

A bit like an agent really, say what sells.

I am afraid that is nonsense. Comedians set themselves apart from the people that they satarise and get audiences to personally "join them" in their sneers and laughter. He will now find it very difficult to make jokes about tax evasion unless he makes his own affairs the butt of the jokes. If he then goes on to find mirth in his "tax arrangements" in public he may well find HMRC will not see the humour.

[BlasterBates]

He can now sneer at people who pay tax.

He'll probably get a much higher fee for performing for rich people.

[MyUserName]

I would love to be there when someone heckles him about tax, someone is bound to try it and he is viscious to hecklers!

[DodgyAgent]

I would love to be there when someone heckles him about tax, someone is bound to try it and he is viscious to hecklers!

The hecklers will be queuing up

[pacharan]

I am afraid that is nonsense. Comedians set themselves apart from the people that they satarise and get audiences to personally "join them" in their sneers and laughter. He will now find it very difficult to make jokes about tax evasion unless he makes his own affairs the butt of the jokes. If he then goes on to find mirth in his "tax arrangements" in public he may well find HMRC will not see the humour.

Ken Dodd did a good line in self deprecating jokes about his tax affairs.

[bless 'em all]

Ken Dodd did a good line in self deprecating jokes about his tax affairs.

Ken Dodd OBE, CBE, VAT

He introduced two new diddy men. Diddy Pay & Diddy Hell.

It only bites those who get on their high horse about it, like Lester Piggot.

[AtW]

It's legal, what's the problem?

If you don't see the problem then you are either an idiot or tax cheat, possibly both.