Documentary asks survivors as well as comedians including Mel Brooks and Sarah Silverman to consider whether it’s right to make jokes about death camps
Did you hear the one about the murder of 6 million Jews? In the documentary The Last Laugh, writer and director Ferne Pearlstein canvasses comedians ranging from Mel Brooks to Sarah Silverman, Holocaust survivors and anti-racism activists to ask whether the Nazi death camps are an appropriate subject for humour.
Naturally, 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 about Heidi Klum: “The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into ovens.
Did you hear the one about the murder of 6 million Jews? In the documentary The Last Laugh, writer and director Ferne Pearlstein canvasses comedians ranging from Mel Brooks to Sarah Silverman, Holocaust survivors and anti-racism activists to ask whether the Nazi death camps are an appropriate subject for humour.
Naturally, 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 about Heidi Klum: “The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into ovens.
- 4/24/2016
- by Alex Needham
- The Guardian - Film News
Documentary asks survivors as well as comedians including Mel Brooks and Sarah Silverman to consider whether it’s right to make jokes about death camps
Did you hear the one about the murder of 6 million Jews? In the documentary The Last Laugh, writer and director Ferne Pearlstein canvasses comedians ranging from Mel Brooks to Sarah Silverman, Holocaust survivors and anti-racism activists to ask whether the Nazi death camps are an appropriate subject for humour.
Naturally, 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 about Heidi Klum: “The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into ovens.
Did you hear the one about the murder of 6 million Jews? In the documentary The Last Laugh, writer and director Ferne Pearlstein canvasses comedians ranging from Mel Brooks to Sarah Silverman, Holocaust survivors and anti-racism activists to ask whether the Nazi death camps are an appropriate subject for humour.
Naturally, 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 about Heidi Klum: “The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into ovens.
- 4/24/2016
- by Alex Needham
- The Guardian - Film News
There has been a changing of the showrunner guard behind the scenes on "Law & Order." Michael Chernuchin has exited his post as showrunner and executive producer of the venerable NBC/Universal drama series after having what sources described as a "falling out" with the big boss of the Law & Order shows, Dick Wolf. It's understood that the void left by Chernuchin's departure from Law & Order this month has been filled by staffers who were already on the show: executive producer Matthew Penn and co-executive producers Eric Overmyer and Roz Weinman. Chernuchin is now focused on developing new projects through his overall deal with Universal Network Television. Chernuchin and a spokesman for Universal declined comment on the matter.
- 1/29/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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