jquery doesn't parse JSON with comments

gistfile1.js

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
$.getJSON('b8irg1.json', function(data) { console.log(data);});
will only contain an responseText property but not the JSON.parse'd data appended if the JSON file contains comments of the kind '// or /*...*/'

Note tried with jquery 1.6.4

Any updates? It would be helpful to include comments in my JSON.