Jimmy Carr has caused plenty of offence in his time - from joking about children with Down’s Syndrome to poking fun at injured British servicemen.

Yet Carr says there is one subject that should be off-limits for comedy: Hillsborough.

He told Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that the 1989 disaster in which 96 football fans died is an exception to his rule that “anything is fair game”.

“I would say the one thing you can never joke about in the UK is Hillsborough. It’s a tragedy that has touched people in a very specific way and I cannot imagine anyone ever coming up with a joke about that,” he said.