Funnyman Jimmy Carr reckons allowing 16-year-olds into the pub could help combat toxic masculinity and improve their social skills
Comedian Jimmy Carr would rather teenagers were in the pub than at home on their Playstations, to improve their social skills.
The Last One Laughing host believes allowing 16-year-olds to drink legally in boozers would help counter the growing toxic masculinity crisis fuelled by online figures. Referring to Louis Theroux‘s new Netflix documentary – which highlights the rise of controversial influencers like HSTikkyTokky – Carr said: “There’s a positive side to masculinity and we’re not talking about that. We need to.”
According to The Sun Jimmy said on stage: “I think drinking is essential because the risk to your liver is nothing compared to the risk of social isolation.
“Pubs have been proven to work for men’s mental health for the last 200 years and I think we should open the doors to 16 year olds. I think we should let 16 year-olds drink in pubs. My only proviso is not on their own. I think groups of four.
“You should be able to be served if you can get three mates together and then men check other men. I don’t want them sat at home on their PlayStation. I don’t want them drinking in the park.”
Carr reckons being around other blokes from all types of different backgrounds is how young people learn to develop social skills and understanding to ultimately “check them” on their own behaviour.
He added: “I want them with other men in a space where there’s grown ups around and that’s how you learn. That’s what a society is. It’s a good idea.”
He then joked with the crowd: “I’m pro-gang, pro-drinking, pro-gambling – let me talk you round.”
Louis Theroux’s Netflix doc Inside The Manosphere confronts controversial influencers like Sneako (Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy) and podcasters Myron Gaines and Justin Waller.
Jimmy said of the doc: “I think it’s very good that he [Loius] made that.
“It’s very interesting that argument is being mainstreamed because you go, ‘Well, I don’t like what they’re saying to young men but I like the fact they’re talking to young men’.
“You have to respect the intent there. The content’s terrible but the intent of talking to young men that are lost is valuable. But we just need better voices talking to young men.
“We can’t marginalise them.”
He added to his audience: “I think there’s a lot of talk about toxic masculinity and no one talks about the positives.
“You could be a king or you could be a tyrant. You could be a warrior or you could be a sadist. There’s a positive side to masculinity and we’re not talking about that. We need to.
“We need to empower young men.”
Jimmy is hosting series two of LOL: Last One Standing on Prime Video and he thinks he knows why it’s become such a huge hit: “It’s not Traitors, it’s not Love Island, it’s not the jungle because it’s filmed in no longer than a day.
“They don’t know who the jokers are. They don’t know who’s going to be in, which is great.”
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