Documentary on Mixing Humor & The Holocaust to be Screened at Clark
Thursday, March 16, 2017
The movie will be shown on Tuesday, March 21 at 7 p.m. in room 320 of the Jefferson Academic Center.
Valerie Sperling, professor and chair of the Political Science department, and Amy Richter, professor of history, will lead a discussion after the film.
The event is Free.
“The Last Laugh”
Pearlstein’s documentary explores whether or not the Holocaust is an off-limits topic for comedy.
Through interviews with Holocaust survivors and entertainers including Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, and footage of film and TV comedies (including The Great Dictator, Hogan’s Heroes, Life is Beautiful, Curb Your Enthusiasm’s “survivor” episode, and Jerry Lewis’s never-released Holocaust comedy The Day the Clown Cried), Pearlstein investigates how Jews used humor in the concentration camps, how Nazi jokes went mainstream, and whether it’s okay for comedians to find humor in history’s worst horrors, including the gas chambers, September 11, slavery, and AIDS. The conversation will attempt to decipher with what and where the line is drawn.
“The last laugh,” opened last year in limited release.
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