Jokes Are Now Basically Stepstools To The Pyre For The Teller's Social Media Witchburning
A Larry David SNL monologue -- with the joke that "there are no good opening lines in a concentration camp" -- apparently had pants wadded all over social medialand.
Other jokes that left more panties wadded:
"I've always been obsessed with women and often wondered, if I'd grown up in Poland when Hitler came to power, and was sent to a concentration camp, would I still be checking out women in the camp? I think I would.""Hey Shlomo, look at the one by barracks 8," David continued. "Oh my God, is she gorgeous?!... I'd like to go up and say something to her.
It's my belief that acting like a victim makes you a better victim.
And I recognize that The Holocaust was a horrific mass murder and torture for those who lived to be experimented on and/or work in the camps.
But I also think laughing helps you deal with hard things and makes life worth living. It also says, "Fuck you! We lived!" -- and that despite what you might have tried to do to us (Jews, in this case), you couldn't break us.
However, I do have to admit, I've restrained myself from putting a somewhat related crack on Twitter.
I'll sneak my joke out just for all of you, though:
"To me, everything in German either sounds like a noodle dish or 'Kill the Jews!'"
By the way, I think part of the problem is that people who have nothing to say -- and certainly nothing funny to say -- use social media to get a leg up on being (or at least seeming like) somebody. This "prosecute all jokes!" thing allows that, plus a scoop or two of virtue-signaling tribalism.
"To me, everything in German either sounds like a noodle dish or 'Kill the Jews!'"
Thank you. That was good.
roadgeek at November 6, 2017 3:29 AM
Hee hee...thanks.
Amy Alkon at November 6, 2017 6:15 AM
I'm going to steal your joke about everything German. (Sorry, but being the terrible person I am, I'm not going to give you credit for it!)
Jay at November 6, 2017 8:06 AM
i used to do oral histories for Shoah, and One very cranky old guy told me a pretty terrible joke about cannibalism and the camps. Because I have no filter, I laughed. He then relaxed, told me that he could trust me, and told me the story of his life.
And people did meet, fall in love and have sex in the camps.
Nothing is sacred in comedy.
KateC at November 6, 2017 9:02 AM
"It's my belief that acting like a victim makes you a better victim."
Practice makes perfect, for those striving to be better victims.
Ken R at November 6, 2017 9:47 AM
On this day, November 6, 2017, I officially declare it OK for anybody, even a Jew, to make jokes or laugh about Hitler and the Holocaust! Be free, all!
mpetrie98 at November 6, 2017 11:01 AM
Gervais - (punchline) 'Say what you will about Hitler, but that was a terrible honeymoon'.
Seinfeld - *The best part of that joke is - 'Say what you will about Hitler'.*
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at November 6, 2017 12:05 PM
"Sorry, but being the terrible person I am, I'm not going to give you credit for it!"
Don't be a terrible person. You can compensate me by buying my books -- new copies. Ideally 20 of them. People sell jokes.
Or you could credit me. It's the nice thing to do!
Amy Alkon at November 6, 2017 12:14 PM
First of all the Holocaust was a horrible point in history that I wish would not have happened but can we at least understand that Hitler was not German. He was an Austrian national. And if the language offends you then let me point out that the Hebrew language is an even less than melodic language and even worse and more guttural than German.
Evie at November 6, 2017 12:25 PM
"It's my belief that acting like a victim makes you a better victim."
That toughness makes you a better person. I appreciate that!
Radwaste at November 6, 2017 3:11 PM
Have to admit that I don't care for much of Larry David's material. But I can't help but think that he crafted that line with the probable reaction in mind -- and said reaction made exactly the point he wanted to make.
Cousin Dave at November 6, 2017 4:58 PM
If tragedy were off limits for jokes, Mel Brooks would have been out of business years ago.
Conan the Grammarian at November 6, 2017 5:30 PM
This isn't recent. Witness the "light bulb joke":
Radwaste at November 6, 2017 5:33 PM
On a serious note the reason feminists are incapable of changing a light bulb is their insistence that the leaky faucet is the cause if the blown bulb
lujlp at November 7, 2017 11:20 AM
Hitler was a naturalized German
NIColek at November 8, 2017 4:41 AM
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