It's a Joke, People!
Patrick, you especially, will appreciate this. I thought the first letter was tongue-in-cheek until I read the second:www.yakima-herald.com/page/ed/290396700349866
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ddfla, I find a lot of Mel Brooks's humor unfunny and tasteless, but that's not only the Hitler jokes, it goes back to "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frank." One person's clever satire and hilarious...
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Ah yes. I'm always amazed at the "stupidity" of people. How could anyone see the over the top "making fun" and "insulting" Hitler and listen to the entire plot of the show which is about finding the...
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Elaine, I could understand an audience member not liking a particular piece of satire, but I think the writer of the first letter didn't understand that it was satire since she wrote that The...
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Quote:The Producers was a "tribute to a monster responsible for millions of deaths". point taken!Subtlety is lost on the unsubtle. I'm going back to edit my previous post.
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It's also not just humor that's lost on some people. The last time we did Cabaret, several people were very upset as they said it "glorified Nazism". Particularly that "stag in the forest number"....
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There are all types of fools, and there is no cure for the unenlightened. Mel Brooks has the genius to translate the principles of the Purim story into the present. Without repeating the whole...
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I will freely confess, the idea of a musical called Springtime for Hitler is so atrocious that I can't help but laugh at it. I always think one of the worst things you can do to a self-important...
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