Never found Carr to be funny or offensive but regardless of free speech he's crossed the line here, same with Boyle and his ridicule of the disabled - there's plenty of other material to use so just no need for it. Just as some feel they have the right to say what they like, so the same right exists for others to say what they like in response.

I get the point about watching Bernard Manning back then taking offence, he was of his time and would get nowhere if he was starting out now.