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Jimmy Carr’s Am I the A**hole? review – the idea for this comedy panel show is one of TV’s laziest

Its whole concept – comics judge the public’s tales of awfulness to decide who is the most horrible – is based on a subReddit. It’s a confusing, outdated watchIn the not-so-distant past, you would have had to bribe most people to get them to confess to being committed users of the social media site Reddit. As a Redditor of several years, let’s just say that I didn’t used to be particularly vocal about my daily consumption of “subreddits” (individual communities on the site) such as Malicious Compliance (mistakes people make at work, passive-aggressively), or the fairly self-explanatory Am I The Asshole? (AITA). These days, though, Reddit isn’t just for people who live in basements – everyone seems to be on there, rubbernecking in threads like Open Marriage Regret or just indulging in TV fandom. And now they’re even making TV shows based on it.Jimmy Carr’s Am I the A**hole? (asterisks aside, no one in the programme can decide whether it’s pronounced “asshole” or “arsehole”) isn’t the...


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