> So his jokes "failed to land"....big deal. He still has the right to say them.
Did anyone question his right to make that joke? Though I think it is too
bad that there is apparently no censor or review at HBO, because that joke
was sick and should have been cut. Maybe if it was hilariously funny there
would be a payoff, but it was just stupid in its insensitivity. When people
say "never forget" they mean it for all people, and that is one pathetic
step towards trivializing and forgetting the past. Words, even words in
jokes mean something.
A comedian should tell funny jokes, and I think TMC's point was that it was
not. Trying to joke about the Holocaust, and not only that but a story about
how the Holocaust affected, albeit fictionally, one person putting them in a
more than horrible spot is not funny. There may be people who think it is
funny, like someone might think kicking a dog is funny, but there are bounds
to humor.
Joking about the N-word is in a different class, and they are not joking about
slavery or the N-word itself, but the use of it in daily life among people with an
oppressive background. That doesn't fit with the Holocaust at all. Why all the
attempts to make all of this stuff equivalent. Blacks are doing something like
freeing themselves from the meaning of that word in contemporary life by
taking it as their own. That is not equivalent to Jews or any of the people
murdered by the Nazis.
Larry David, a Jew, is exploiting his own tragic background, because I am sure
being a Jew from Brooklyn it's a certainty he had relatives murdered in WWII.
I think the other point is, jokes have a meaning, so what is the meaning of
this particular attempt at humor, and did Larry David even think about it?
I'd love to hear him answer the question as to what was his point? Jewish
or not, I thought that was an a-hole thing to say, because the meaning and
humor in it was not thought out or developed.
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