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"Jimmy Carr has insisted that he gets &amp;quot;no pleasure&amp;quot; in causing offence with his material.  The controversial comedian has in the past year been behind a &amp;quot;sick&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;ultra-violent&amp;quot; comic strip depicting school shootings, been blasted for telling jokes about Down&amp;#039;s syndrome sufferers, and was forced to apologise after tweeting a car crash joke days after last November&amp;#039;s fatal M5 collision.   &amp;quot;I have got myself in hot water once or twice,&amp;quot; he admitted to The Mirror. &amp;quot;But I&amp;#039;ve never set out to intentionally offend anyone - and I take no pleasure from doing so. &amp;quot;Believe it or not, I do have certain parameters I wouldn&amp;#039;t cross in the name of comedy, because even I couldn&amp;#039;t make it funny. But what I talk about, especially at my live shows, can be brutal and you&amp;#039;ve got to have a particular sense of humour to withstand it.&amp;quot; On the furore caused by his gags about Down&amp;#039;s syndrome, Carr continued: &amp;quot;Criticism of me is absolutely valid. People have the right to be offended, but I also reserve the right of freedom of speech to make a joke about whatever I want. &amp;quot;I respect that people might say, &amp;#039;He&amp;#039;s a terrible human being and I don&amp;#039;t like him&amp;#039;, but they can&amp;#039;t say I stepped over the line - they drew the line.&amp;quot; Carr stated last year that he never feels guilty about his more scandalous jokes, arguing: &amp;quot;You don&amp;#039;t say things by accident as a comedian - you&amp;#039;ve got to stand by what you say.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Jimmy Carr interview: &amp;#039;If you can&amp;#039;t joke about a fat guy being fat, the world has ended&amp;#039; Watch highlights of Jimmy Carr&amp;#039;s Being Funny show below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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