by Lauren Revans
Normally I quite like Jonathan Ross – even if he is vastly overpaid. But on Friday night, he definitely overstepped the mark.
In the interests of ‘comedy’, Ross told stand-up Jimmy Carr that he “had the look of someone who had been in care”, adding that, if he came across him in a restaurant when he was out with his family, he would keep his children away.
Maybe I was feeling a bit sensitive having recently visited and talked with some children in care, but I’m afraid I couldn’t find anything about this particular interaction to laugh about.
As far as I am concerned:
Implying that people who have been in care are somehow all strange looking is not funny;
and implying that people who have been in care are potentially dangerous to children is not funny.
There are many other ways Ross could have chosen to laugh with/at someone like Jimmy Carr. Choosing to offend some of society’s most disadvantaged children in the process was, at best, unnecessary and, at worst, down right offensive.