These three top comedians who must be taken off air immediately after vile joke

OPINION: Wishing death upon a national treasure is too far.

Rosie Jones went too far (Image: ITV)

Everything should be taken with a pinch of salt when it comes to comedians, that’s a given. But Rosie Jones recently went too far after an utterly vile joke at the expense of none other than David Attenborough. If there was ever someone to not touch with a 10ft pole, it’s the national treasure that is Sir David. Now, don’t get me wrong, one thing that is typically great about comedians is that they offer a no-holds-barred approach to life and use humour in any circumstances. But sometimes, they do go too far, and this is one of those occasions.

In my opinion, there are three comedians that need to be taken off air now after some utterly vile jokes, and I’ll explain why. But we’ll start with BBC star Rosie Jones, who has been doing stand-up gigs recently. Now I love a comedian pushing the boat out but there does have to be places where the line is drawn, and in this instance, she shot so far over the line I was speechless.

Jimmy Carr is another one who took it too far (Image: Getty)

As part of her routine, she admitted that she was “waiting” for David to die. She said: “I love David Attenborough, but right now I am waiting for him to die. Hear me out – he’s a national treasure! But right now, in the UK, we have so many national treasures, if anything, too many. Right now, we’re talking a one-in, one-out situation. And I want in!” She added in the caption that she’s “not wishing anything bad on David” but is just “waiting”.

Comments flooded her Instagram as she shared it with people saying it was “distasteful” and “wildly offensive”.

But she’s not the only one who took it too far, Jimmy Carr made a joke about the Holocaust back in 2021, and it sparked so much fury that I’m surprised he’s still performing, let alone is currently running his live tour, Laughs Funny. He said: When people talk about the Holocaust, they talk about the tragedy of six million Jewish lives being lost… But they never mention the thousands of Gypsies that were killed by the Nazis… because no one ever wants to talk about the positives.” I think what we’re learning here is joking about how people should die is where it gets out of hand.

The joke sparked so much backlash from politicians, charities and Holocause organisations and became the source of a wider debate about free speech in comedy vs outright offensive material.

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Finally, Russell Brand. He’s been controversial for most of his stand-up career, often poking fun at the royals and various issues faced within the family, which can be a touchy subject. However, it was the occasion he really took it too far that still baffles me to this day. He’s always pushed himself as a comedian, but when he walked into MTV dressed as Osama bin Laden the day after 9/11, that was too far. He even once prank called actor Andrew Sachs on his BBC Radio 2 show referring to his brief relationship with Sachs’ granddaughter. The BBC was fined £150,000 and he resigned from the programme. He’s still actively posting on YouTube, and I’m surprised that’s not been censored yet.

That was back in 2008 and yet he still carried on getting paid work, there comes a time where you need to realise that you’ve crossed too many lines; for each of these comedians they have done it, but how they come back from it, I’ll never know.