Channel 4 criticised for Jimmy Carr show involving Hitler painting

A caller Channel 4 amusement successful which a workplace assemblage volition determine whether comedian Jimmy Carr should destruct a coating by Adolf Hitler has been criticised.

The transmission has bought works by Hitler and different "problematic" artists to beryllium utilized successful Jimmy Carr Destroys Art.

The amusement is intended to statement whether it is imaginable to abstracted a portion of creation from its arguable creator.

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

The Channel 4 show, to beryllium screened aboriginal this month, is besides expected to diagnostic artworks by Rolf Harris, the erstwhile entertainer who was recovered blameworthy of the intersexual battle of underage girls, and intersexual abuser Eric Gill.

Channel 4's manager of programming Ian Katz told the Guardian that Carr would big a televised statement astir what to bash with the pieces successful question.

"There are advocates for each portion of art," helium said. "So you've got an advocator for Hitler. There'll beryllium idiosyncratic arguing not for Hitler, but for the information that his motivation quality should not determine whether oregon not a portion of creation exists oregon not."

But Holocaust Memorial Day Trust main enforcement Olivia Marks-Woldman said: "There is thing entertaining oregon laughable astir Hitler oregon the execution of six cardinal Jews, and the persecution of millions more."

The amusement was making the Nazi person "a taxable of airy entertainment", she said, adding: "This is profoundly inappropriate, and astatine a clip of expanding Holocaust distortion, dangerously trivialising.

"The question of however acold creation tin beryllium linked to its creators is an important one, but this programme is simply a stunt for daze value, and cannot excuse the trivialisation of the horrors of Nazism."

Channel 4 has not yet responded to her comments.

Ms Marks-Woldman added: "Choosing Jimmy Carr to beforehand this occurrence is deliberately provocative and inflammatory fixed his history."

The comedian did not publically remark connected the backlash helium faced implicit his Holocaust regular earlier this year.