Jimmy Carr Says Elon Musk Came to Comedy Show Alongside ‘Eight Guys with AK-47s’
British comic Jimmy Carr says Elon Musk caused “some consternation” when he arrived at a Carr comedy recording for Comedy Central back in 2016. “Elon came along as a friend of a friend. … I said to Comedy Central, I’m bringing some guests. And they went, ‘Oh, that’s fine,’” Carr told Telegraph U.K. “And I went, he’s got some security, and then eight guys with AK-47s rolled up.”
Kind of kills the laugh vibes for everyone else in the room, but Carr said that display of lethal firepower was completely understandable. “He’s the biggest kidnap threat in the world,” the comic insisted. “Because there’s three billion-dollar companies that all go to zero if he gets popped. It’s not like guarding the president, where they can take an afternoon off every now and then. They’ve really got to take this seriously. There’s money at stake.”
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Carr is a remorseless Musk apologist. He recently posted a clip from a comedy show in which he defended Musk’s Nazi salute.
After settling the debate over whether Musk is a Nazi or autistic — “Can’t he be both?” — Carr let his audience know where he stands on the controversial billionaire. “For the record, Elon Musk is not a fucking Nazi,” he told the audience. “It’s just the internet goes ‘he’s a Nazi’ almost immediately. He’s a fucking genius.”
Maybe he's a little bit crazy, explained Carr, but Musk is no Nazi. “He’s all right,” the comic said. “I’ve met him. He’s a very nice fella. Great sense of humor.”
A genius with a great sense of humor, eh? Telegraph U.K. asked the comedian if his pal Musk would see the funny side of Mike Myers’ impression on Saturday Night Live.
“I don’t know,” Carr responded. “I mean, I think he’s got a pretty good sense of humor, he’s got to be quite stoic about that (kind of thing) because he’s one of the most talked about people in the world.”
(GAME SHOW BUZZER) Sorry, Jimmy Carr, you got that one wrong. Musk wasn’t stoic about Dana Carvey’s SNL impression of him (“Dana Carvey just sounds like Dana Carvey,” he whined on Twitter), and he doesn’t like the Myers version any better. “Humor fails when it lies,” he tweeted in response to Twitter users posting the clip.
Myers might want to watch his back, as should other comics (Bill Burr, Chloe Fineman, Kathy Griffin) with whom Musk has beefed publicly in recent months. It’s one thing to have people who don’t appreciate your comedy. It’s another when they show up at the club surrounded by guys toting assault rifles.
