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The Last Laugh Page #6
Auschwitz? Youll be
saying Wowschwitz!
MUISC:
- Hi.
- Good morning, how are you?
- Im okay.
I need a red
rose, can I get one?
Yes, yes sure.
One single red rose?
-Yes.
Oh my god.
- Here you go.
How much is it?
- Oh, no, no, no charge.
CALM MUSIC:
Both of us were survivors,
but both of us
realized we are alive
and we have to go on
living.
You cant die while
you are alive
and think of the dark side
of life all the time.
You just cant.
You cant survive that way.
bring a rose because thats what
he used to bring me every day,
one rose.
I will never
forget that.
CLEARS HER THROA Whenever I remember I cry,
and whenever I
dont remember
I laugh, or smile.
And Im glad that Im
able to smile and laugh.
It wouldve been a
horrible life for me
for 70 years
to
just cry,
and to raise my daughter.
She was a baby, I had
to laugh with her,
I had to smile
with her.
This was Klara,
I dont know, maybe 12 years
old, 10 years old, I dont know.
I think she was very cute,
she was a little dancer.
This was in
1948,
when I came to the
United States.
I had to make her understand
that life was good,
I didnt want her to mourn
with me the rest of her life.
So, you learn to do what
you have to do to live,
to survive.
To protect his family,
this loving father
has to think fast on his feet.
To turn the hard truth
into a simple game.
CHILD LAUGHS:
Life is Beautiful.
Life is Beautiful is the
worst movie ever made.
Seriously, the blurb should be,
He puts the ha
in Holocaust.
To make a comedy
about a concentration camp
and avoid what
really went on there
its absolutely ludicrous.
Achtung!
SOLDIER SPEAKING GERMAN
SOLDIER SPEAKING GERMAN
SOLDIER SPEAKING GERMAN
He laughs and jokes
and kids around,
and thats how everything
turns out okay.
SOLDIER SPEAKING GERMAN
Life is Beautiful is
absolutely brilliant.
It portrays to a new audience
that you can take
humor,
but you can then get
their attention,
bring them in, and yet to
deliver the message
of the horror.
Now
look, I
I survived the Holocaust because
my parents did the unthinkable:
in order to save me
they gave me away.
SoCHUCKLES
did I not understand
Life is Beautiful,
when this father
to protect his child
Its not a comedy,
its not a farce.
It's, It's, It's,
Its such a sense of
reality.
And yet
I understood when there were
survivors who said, No,
its unacceptable.
would see Life is Beautiful as a
shittier version of The
Day the Clown Cried.
Theres a movie Jerry
Lewis made called
The Day the Clown Cried
where hes a clown
whos put into a
concentration camp
and his job is to
entertain the children
into the gas chambers.
No ones seen it
seen it, not many, I know
Harry Shearer infamously
is one of the very few
people whos seen it.
I am one of the
handful of people
I dont
even know if its a handful,
it may be two fingers.
A rough cut had
become available.
It was
a startling experience
Its a material that youd
have to be so sublimely
careful with
whether youre being
funny or not.
The idea itself
is not
laughably bad.
just tonally its
all over the place.
At times its Life is Beautiful,
and at times its
Dumb and Dumber.
It sort of luxuriated in
this mawkish sentimentality
which just made it ludicrous.
I think I said said that it was
like seeing a
Tijuana velvet clown
painting of the Holocaust.
CIRCUS MUSIC:
As you might imagine
hes not proud of it.
delusion that its a work of art
that, you know, is being
suppressed by
big, you know, uhm
pro-PalestiniansLAUGHS
It just wasnt his time man,
he was too ahead of his time.
If he had waited 25 years
then, yeah,
hed be bounding over the those
seats, grabbing his Oscar.
about a matter like this
it could be just as dangerous
MUSIC:
To people who say,
theyre in the wrong hands,
whats ridiculous in the world,
and the tragic in this world,
who else is going
to point it out?
Heres someone whos not Jewish,
Lisa Lampanelli at the
David Hasselhoff roast.
David Hasselhoff is a legend!
AUDIENCE APPLAUDS
I giant in
television and music.
David, your singing is
huge in Germany.
If they had played your
music in Auschwitz
the Jews wouldve
sprinted for those ovens.
I dont think its funny.
I think the initial
reaction
when a non-Jew makes
a Holocaust joke
is that theyre making
fun of the Holocaust,
and who are you to
make fun of of that?
You werent there,
you werent affected, okay?
We were and we are allowed
to joke about it, okay?
Just like um
African Americans are allowed
God forbida big Jew from Long
Island, if I said it, Id get
my ass in trouble.
Jews have their turf, gay
people have their turf,
And when people
transgress those turfs,
you can run
into problems.
I aint never been
in a barbershop
Black people dont hate Jews
black people hate white people.
AUDIENCE LAUGHS:
We dont got time to dice white
people into little groups!
AUDIENCE APPLAUDS
I hate everybody!
I have a really hard time
deciding
whos going
to get offended by what.
Culture shifts, and the words
or the taboo subject shifts as
well. Its no longer a taboo.
You can make
fun of Lincolns assassination,
you can make fun of
the crucifixion
crucifixionyou cant
make fun of Mohammed.
Thats still a taboo
subject,
taboo subject
because if you do make fun of if
theres a good chance
bomb through your window
like the Danish cartoonists.
Uh, I want to say, despite
last weeks
senseless attacks on the French
satirical magazine
Charlie Hebdo,
we all remember Sundays
inspirational march
through Paris.
Millions standing
against terrorism
that made plain the message:
in a free society,
expression
without fear of persecution
is a basic right.
The anti-Semitic
comedian Dieudonn
arrested for incitement
after his Facebook post
that supported the attackers.
He tweeted
Je suis Charlie Coulibaly, the
name of one of the attackers.
Man!
Arresting someone for saying
something
the right of free expression
eeeeeh, its a little weird.
AUDIENCE LAUGHS:
Maybe if we knew more
about the culprit
Dieudonn is very controversial,
he had a tour
canceled last yea
because of this anti- Semitic
routine that he does.
Oh man, this sucks!
Je suis confused.
AUDIENCE LAUGHS:
- When speech gets
censored, its
dangerous because it
makes it more taboo.
Its like Catholic schoolgirls
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