Documentary asks survivors as well as comedians including Mel Brooks and Sarah Silverman to probe whether it’s right to fabricate (to make up, invent) jokes approximately the death camps
Did you hear the one approximately the murder of 6 million Jews? In documentary The final Laugh,writer and director Ferne Pearlstein canvasses comedians ranging from Mel Brooks to Sarah Silverman, Holocaust survivors and anti-racism activists to query whether the Nazi death camps are an appropriate subject for humour.
Naturally, and this gives rise to an incredible wealth of comic material ranging from Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi (which Roz Weinman,who was in charge of standards and practices for NBC at the time, regrets approving as she believes the way it passed into pop culture ended up trivialising the Holocaust) to Joan Rivers’s 2013 shock-and-awe one-liner approximately Heidi Klum: “The final time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into ovens.”
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Source: theguardian.com