Comedian Jimmy Carr likens Prince Harry to Kanye West, saying ‘he occasionally dressed as a Nazi and he f***** up’

British stand-up comic Jimmy Carr has compared Prince Harry to Kanye West, saying both had ‘dressed up’ as Nazis and ‘f***ed up’.

The comedian and TV presenter aimed the jibe at the Duke of Sussex in his solo set, in a new clip widely shared online.

Carr, 52, who is no stranger to controversy, was referring to the time Harry – then aged 20, now 40 – wore a Nazi costume to a fancy dress party in 2005.

Meanwhile, multiple Grammy-winning rapper West, 48, has shared messages online suggesting pro-Nazis views – though recently insisted he ‘renounced’ anti-Semitism.

West, previously married to reality TV star Kim Kardashian, released a track earlier this year called Heil Hitler (Hooligan Version).

The newly shared gag by Carr has been shared on the star’s official Instagram account, with 2.5million followers – captioned ‘Prince William Vs Prince Harry’.

He is seen responding to an audience member asking which of the royal brothers he preferred.

Carr responds by saying: ‘The royal family – well, if you can imagine, they’re like our Kardashians.

British stand-up comic Jimmy Carr (pictured) has compared Prince Harry to Kanye West, saying both had ‘dressed up’ as Nazis

The Duke of Sussex was the subject of a jibe in a new clip shared on Carr’s social media

British comedian Carr compared Prince Harry to US hip-hop star Kanye West (pictured)

‘Prince Harry is very much our Kanye. He occasionally dresses as a Nazi – and he f***ed up.’ 

Responses have been mixed, with comments including ‘Quite a smart answer, ‘Harry just can’t catch a break, can he’,  ‘You lost me. Harry is a treasure’. 

Carr has faced controversies himself in the past, including involvement in tax avoidance schemes as well as telling jokes criticised as being in poor taste.

Earlier this week his latest earnings were revealed after a string of TV deals and a tour that saw him rake in almost £5million last year. 

The comedian hosts shows Battle In The Box and Last One Laughing, and is set to take his stand-up comedy show to Australia.

Thanks to his successes, accounts filed at Companies House have shown that his firm, R & I Futures Ltd made £4.8million in the year to September 2024.

Carr set up the firm two years ago and is earning nearly £100,000 per week.

The comic lives in Primrose Hill in north London with Canadian partner Karoline Copping, a former commissioning editor for Channel 5, and the couple have a six-year-old son. 

Carr responded to an audience question about Princes William and Harry by comparing the British royal family to US reality TV star family the Kardashians

Prince Harry wrote in his 2023 memoir Spare about his controversial costume at a fancy dress party in 2005

Kanye West has worn swastika and ‘White Lives Matter’ T-shirts and spoken about feeling disain about his disdain for Jewish people (pictured February 22)

The Mail told last month of latest developments in a long-running feud between Carr and his estranged 80-year-old father Jim.

The TV personality reached out to his father for a favour, only for him to continue the silent treatment once it was granted, a friend of Jim’s revealed. 

The senior Carr was left feeling ‘confused and distraught’, the friend said, and was left bewildered as to why his son carried on his grudge and not seek a reunion.

The pair fell out shortly after Jimmy’s mum Nora died in 2001 from pancreatitis at the age of 57.

Up until that point, the 8 Out Of 10 Cats host had a close bond with his parents with his accountant father helping to pay for his rent and food during the early days of his career as well as giving him lifts around the country to gigs.

But Jimmy cooled towards Jim and cut him out of his life without ever seemingly giving him a proper explanation why.

The bad-blood simmered until rising to the surface again in 2021 when Jimmy, 52, told fellow comics Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe on their Parenting Hell podcast: ‘I haven’t seen my father in 21-years.

‘You know the line, “My mother’s dead and my father’s dead to me” – which sounds very cold until you meet the guy. I can’t have that guy in my life.’

A young Jimmy Carr, aged around nine, with his father Jim, from whom he has been famously estranged for nearly 25 years

The pair fell out shortly after Jimmy’s mum Nora died in 2001 from pancreatitis at the age of 57

Up until their estrangement, the 8 Out Of 10 Cats host had a close bond with his parents. Pictured: The star on his graduation day at Cambridge University

Yet a close friend of Irish-born businessman Jim told how Jimmy rang out of the blue nearly eight years ago and asked his father to ‘take on a burden’ for him.

The source revealed: ‘It was just before Christmas in 2017 and Jimmy rang his dad to ask him for some help with a problem he had. He had been supporting someone close to him but just couldn’t continue doing so.

‘Jim has never told me the full details preferring to keep it private but it was a big favour to ask and obviously Jimmy felt he had nowhere else to turn, given that he hadn’t spoken to his dad for that last 15 or 16-years prior to that phone call.

‘He wanted Jim to take on the burden – which he duly did. But while Jim hoped this good deed could rekindle their relationship, Jimmy seemed to cut him off again.

‘He didn’t call to thank him or anything, it was radio silence which continues to this day. It’s strange because it was him who instigated that temporary thaw in relations.’

Jim, who lives in Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire, declined to comment when approached by the Mail, saying simply: ‘I don’t wish to fan the flames so I’ll pass’. Representatives of Jimmy Carr were approached for comment.

Carr has spoken and written in the past about being ‘publicly shamed’ when his tax arrangements were revealed in 2012. 

He had been among of thousands of people using a legal off-shore scheme to pay as little as one per cent income tax.

Jimmy lives in Primrose Hill in North London with Canadian partner Karoline Copping

Carr was said to have been the largest beneficiary of the K2 accountancy arrangement that reportedly sheltered £168million a year from the taxman.

He said in a statement at the time: ‘I’ve been advised the K2 tax scheme is entirely legal, and has been fully disclosed to HMRC.

‘I’m no longer involved in it and will in future conduct my financial affairs much more responsibly. Apologies to everyone.’

Prince Harry has previously blamed Prince William and Kate for his notorious appearance at the costume party wearing his Nazi uniform in 2005.

The Duke of Sussex said in his memoir Spare the other couple thought it was funny.

Harry told of considering either the Nazi uniform or a pilot’s outfit to wear at a ‘Native and Colonial’ themed event and called his brother and sister-in-law for their opinion.

He wrote: ‘I phoned Willy and Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform, they said.

‘They both howled. Worse than Willy’s leotard outfit! Way more ridiculous! Which, again, was the point.’

Prince Harry partially blamed both his brother Prince William and sister-in-law Kate for his infamous appearance at a costume party wearing a Nazi uniform

Harry – seen here with William in 2021 – has said he asked his brother and sister-in-law for advice on whether to wear a Nazi uniform or a pilot uniform to a fancy dress party in 2005

The outfit became a huge scandal when Harry, then 20, was photographed wearing the Nazi regalia.

The story made global headlines after an image of Harry in the costume featured on the front page of The Sun newspaper.

The Duke of Sussex wore the Nazi uniform at a party thrown by Olympic show jumper Richard Meade.

The theme of the event – held to mark the birthday of Mr Meade’s son Harry – was ‘native and colonial’.

Harry wore the desert uniform of General Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps, having earlier in the evening donned an army-style jacket with a German flag on the arm.

Harry had arrived with his brother William, who reportedly dressed in a skin-tight black leotard with a leopard skin pattern and a matching leopard skin tail and paws.

One guest told the Daily Mail afterwards: ‘If this was his idea of a joke then it went down like a lead balloon.’

Harry said sorry shortly after the image was published, saying: ‘I am very sorry if I have caused any offence or embarrassment to anyone. It was a poor choice of costume and I apologise.’

Addressing the issue in a later Netflix series, Harry said dressing as a Nazi was one of the ‘biggest mistakes’ of his life andd said all he ‘wanted to do was make it right.’

He told of meeting with the then-Chief Rabbi, the late Jonathan Sacks who died in 2020, and also spoke to a Holocaust survivor as part of efforts to repair the damage done by the gaffe.

More recently, Kanye West provoked a substantial backlash to his new song Heil Hitler (Hooligan Version), which he released in May this year. 

On the track, the former husband of Kim Kardashian and who is now married to Bianca Censori rapped: ‘With all of my money and fame I still don’t get to see my children.

‘N*****s see my Twitter but they don’t see how I be feeling / So I became a Nazi, yeah b****, I’m the villain.’

A fortnight later, he insisted on X, formerly Twitter, to his 69.4million followers: ‘I am done with antisemitism.

‘God forgive me for the pain I’ve caused. I forgive those who have caused me pain. Thank you God.’

The 24-time Grammy winner explained the reason behind his rejection of his Nazi persona was because he ‘simply got a FaceTime from my kids and I wanna save the world again’.

The rapper tweeted in 2022 he was going ‘death con 3 on Jewish people’ – which got him promptly dropped by his agency CAA, production company MRC, Adidas, Gap, and Balenciaga 

He had previously tweeted in 2022 that he was going ‘death con 3 on Jewish people’ – which got him promptly dropped by his agency CAA, production company MRC, Adidas, Gap and Balenciaga.

The Yeezy designer – who has worn swastika and ‘White Lives Matter’ T-shirts – has repeatedly spoken about his disdain for Jewish people and his adoration of Nazi Germany dictator Adolf Hitler.

But in 2023, Ye claimed watching Jonah Hill in his 2012 action comedy 21 Jump Street made him ‘like Jewish people again’ in a bizarre Instagram post.

‘No one should take anger against one or two individuals and transform that into hatred towards millions of innocent people,’ the hip-hop star wrote at the time.