Channel 4 criticized for Jimmy Carr show involving Hitler's painting

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A new Channel show 4 in which a studio audience deciding whether comedian Jimmy Carr should destroy a painting of Adolf Hitler was criticized.

The channel purchased works by Hitler and other "problematic" artists for use in Jimmy Carr destroys art.

The show aims to discuss the possibility of separating a work of art by its controversial creator.

But the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust called it "deeply inappropriate" and said Carr was an "inflammatory host ".

Earlier this year, the comedian was heavily criticized for performing a Holocaust routine in his latest stand-up special Net flix. Annal 4, which will screen later this month, is also set to feature art by Rolf Harris, the former artist convicted of sexually assaulting underage girls, and sex offender Eric Gill. /p>

Channel 4 programming director Ian Katz told the Guardian that Carr would host a TV debate on what to do with the plays in question.

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