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The Last Laugh Page #5
Oh
the Rabbi said hes bringing
a survivor tomorrow.
Should I have my father
bring his friend Solly?
- yeah.
Do survivors like
seeing each other?
Well, when I first
saw the outline
for the Survivor episode
you know, theres a
theres a gut reaction that
I have to certain things.
The Holocaust is one of them.
Theres a sensitivity.
Im Jewish, you know.
They could come back and
wipe me and my family out.
And, you know, so
theres always a little
ungh that you feel, this
little thing up your spine.
So? Wheres the other survivor?
So here we are in a
region of Australia
where of the worlds ten
most deadly snakes,
nine of
them inhabit this region.
It was harrowing.
- Thats a very
interesting story.
I was in a concentration camp.
You never even suffered
one minute in your life compared
to what I went through!
All survivors talk like that?
- Mom wait, I cant hear.
Look, Im saying we spent
42 days trying to survive.
We had very little
rations, no snacks
- Snacks?
What are you talking, snacks?
We didnt eat,
sometimes for a week!
Did you guys have a bathroom?
A bathroom?!
We didnt have one.
We had 12 people at a time
You dont know nothing about
survival. Im a survivor!
- Im a survivor!
- Im a survivor!
- Im a survivor!
- Im a survivor!
-Im a survivor!
I dont think this is funny.
We expect more
from Jews,
a greater sensitivity, and
maybe thats not fair.
What?
I understand why were laughing.
Why are they laughing?
What are they laughing at?
Now come on, your
money or your life!
RAIN:
Jack Benny!
Jack Benny probably
institutionalized
the stereotype of the
cheap Jew in ways
that anti-Semites
couldnt have achieved
because more people watched his
show than watched anything else.
Was that his intention?
Absolutely not.
But every time
he said it,
and because he was Jewish,
he gave it credibility.
I said, your money or your life!
Im thinking it over!
How you do it
makes a difference.
If you do it with care,
with love, with respect,
its more
acceptable
its not comfortable, but
its more acceptable.
APPLAUSE:
This is song called In My
Country There is Problem.
GUITAR:
SINGING:
In my country there is problem
SINGING:
And that problem is transport
If youre laughing at something,
its tapping something
in your subconscious,
some embarrassment you have,
some inhibition you have.
And then the taboo joke
allows you to
kind
of purge, and have a catharsis.
In my country there is problem
And that problem is the Jew
They take everybodys money
They never give it back
People need
thatsubconsciously they need
they have that need to sort
of tap that dark part,
that id-like part
of their psyche.
SINGING:
Throw the Jew down the well
So my country can be free
You must grab him by his horns
Then we have a big party
I am exposing, I am
airing prejudice.
The only problem is,
that the people that are
laughing
arent laughing at the prejudice
theyre applauding
the prejudice!
When the joke is Throw
the Jews down the well!
Kill the Jews a)
its not funny.
But even if it was funny,
theyre applauding it!
SINGING:
Throw the Jew down the well
So my country can be free
AUDIENCE SINGING
So my country can be free
You must grab him by his horns
AUDIENCE SINGING
You must grab him by his horns
Then we have a big party
My
dialogue or disagreement
really goes back to Archie
Bunker.
Oh no, oh no,
Im going to sue that guy.
First thing in the morning
Im going to get myself
a good Jew lawyer.
LAUGHTER:
Archie, do you always
have to label people?
Why cant you just get a lawyer,
why does it have to
be a Jewish lawyer?
Cause if Im going
to sue an Arab,
Im going to get a guy
whos full of hate.
APPLAUSE:
Our feeling was, you have made
Archie Bunker
a hero.
Theyre not laughing at him,
theyre laughing with him.
There were people who
agreed with Archie,
there were people who
agreed with Mike.
made the show interesting
and what made it good.
Uhm
You know, we always made fun
of Archie, we as liberals,
and so we thought that they
were laughing at that.
But I think even the people
who agreed with Archie
realized he was a
bit of a buffoon,
a bit of an idiot.
You cant control
how your joke will be
inferred.
You know
I had a friend Tom Gianas
who would call it mouth
full of blood laughs.
You know, where theyre
laughing at the wrong thing
And thats hard, but
its just no longer yours.
My nana was a
survivor of the Holocaustor,
Im sorry, alleged Holocaust.
And sheAUDIENCE LAUGHS
she had the tattoo, you know,
the number, and
thank God she was
at one of the better
concentration camps.
She had a vanity number, it said
Bedazzled. Which
is kind of fun.
You know, I talked
about the Holocaust
and I said the
alleged Holocaust
and thats a joke about
Holocaust deniers.
And uhm
you know, a
sophisticated audience
would understand that
and
maybe a less
sophisticated audience
may not. Im not saying
that Im sophisticated.
But uhm,
what are the dangers of that?
will think that the Holocaust
didnt happen?
DRUM ROLL:
- Oh my goodness, Joan.
- I am so sorry Im late,
and I apologize.
- Why were you late?
- Yeah, this is, I waited for
you too long.
- I beg your pardon.
They sent this big stretch
Mercedes limo for us and
it got stuck, it wouldnt move
for two and a half hours,
and Im thinking, you know, the
Germans killed six million Jews,
you cant fix a f***ing
carburetor?
AUDIENCE LAUGHING
SIGHS:
You know, its tough,
shes not here to
defend herself, although
she defended herself
strong enough for a long time.
There are some people, including
the Anti- Defamation League,
who said your joke was
offensive.
How do you respond to that?
- Its a joke, number one.
Number two it was
about the Holocaust,
thats the way I remind
people about the Holocaust.
I do it with
humor.
Her defense was nonsense.
Forgive me Joan, but
it was nonsense.
To say this is how you brought
attention to the Holocaust?
My god,
this is how
you made it nothing.
I know that its a
real fear in people
that the Holocaust
would be forgotten.
Has it not been forgotten?
There are genocides all
over the world happening
and were not doing anything.
Theyre just not
happening to Jews.
Might be something
getting mad at Joan Rivers
for making a joke about
the Holocaust which
for lack of a
better word, alive.
Join me at the sports lodge
where Im going to be unveiling
my very own Holocaust
erection.
Ive got a real person
who was at Auschwitz,
plus we have a dunk tank,
plus weve got a lion
roar!
Dont be fooled by imitation
Holocaust memorials,
come to mine,
Sarah Silvermans
Holocaust Memorial.
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