Larry David: Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Tasteless (SNL)

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[budj]

“...doubt anyone other than Larry David could have pulled it off...”

Maybe Mel Brooks??? Remember “The Producer” and Springtime for Hitler.

[sparklite2]

David’s facial expressions as he was emoting his way through the stuff were beyond the ability of the rest of us to produce. It was like that through the whole show, not just this one bit.

[pabianice]

David is a JINO.

[GOPJ]

Steyn’s Song of the Week: Dance Me To The End Of Love - The Klezmer Conservatory Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqgRnVYjNu0

Holocaust love song...

[Ticonderoga34]

Larry David did a pretty good imitation of Bernie Sanders last year on SNL.

So did SNL do a skit with David as Sanders getting mad that Hillary stole the nomination from him?

Of course not. Silly question.

[nickcarraway]

I don’t watch it, but occasionally if there is something relevant, I’ll see it on Youtube.

[bagster]

I don’t watch it, but occasionally if there is something relevant, I’ll see it on Youtube.

Same.

It's just not funny. I like funny.

[MD Expat in PA]

It was a comedy bit about his poor pick-up lines with women. It was not about religion. Let’s not melt like snowflakes, people.

Exactly. I just watched it on YouTube. I didn’t find it objectionable, not hysterically funny, but not offensive.

Jerry Seinfeld has said that he won’t play college campus gigs anymore because political correctness has made it pretty much impossible to tell any jokes that won’t offend some snowflake or another. Mel Brooks has said that he couldn’t have made Blazing Saddles today.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/mel-brooks-blazing-saddles-pc-culture-1202568893/

Indian chief scene from Blazing Saddles

Of course some probably find this offensive.

Springtime For Hitler The Producers

I also thought the ‘Schindler’s List’ episode of Seinfeld was pretty funny.

[MD Expat in PA]

From David Zucker who would later make the movie Airplane!

The Kentucky Fried Movie - Cleopatra Schwartz

[Gay State Conservative]

Sex in the camps?

To quote Stern when talking to Schindler "I think most people right now have other priorities."

[Gay State Conservative]

I also thought the ‘Schindler’s List’ episode of Seinfeld was pretty funny.

I am one of perhaps a dozen people in the English speaking world who has never watched "Seinfeld" but an episode about Schindler's List????

Yikes!

[Eddie01]

I tuned in for 5 min after years just to see...

The news segment had reduced the talent to jo jo the dogface boy having to read anti-Trump political lines they know weren’t funny.

Like the producers were slapping a cow on the nose with a cheeseburger and saying, “eat it stupid cow”

Total disaster. Serves them right.

[Dr. Ursus]

This season’s Curb episode 5- the ending is one of funniest things I’ve seen.

[Blue Jays]

"...I didn’t find it objectionable, not hysterically funny, but not offensive..."

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That was precisely my reaction.
It had some mildly funny portions, yet nothing that left me utterly howling with uncontrolled laughter.
It was a comedy bit that probably elicited a handful of laughs. Good for him.

[Maceman]

I don’t think there are any funny Holocaust jokes. I don’t see any humor in the Holocaust. They should have given him the hook.

Well, there was this, by Mel Brooks: Springtime for Hitler -- The Producers

[Sans-Culotte]

Yeah, but remember, the idea was that “Springtime for Hitler” was supposed to fail, so the Producers deliberately chose a show that was in bad taste. And it did not include Holocaust “jokes”.

[Yaelle]

Larry shocked the Jewish world years ago with his Schindler’s List Seinfeld episode. Jerry and his slightly underaged girlfriend had been kept apart for weeks by circumstances, and got together to see Schindler’s List. Before the movie started, they began to make out in the theater and apparently never looked at the screen but made out through the whole movie. Of course his nemesis Newman! was in the same theater and reported the scene to Jerry’s parents and everyone was shocked and stunned.

“You were making out.. DURING SCHINDLER’S LIST??????”

My extended family, full of Holocaust survivors, were horrified and offended. I thought David and Seinfeld got away with it because Jerry and girl didn’t necessarily know what was on the screen, they weren’t even looking. I wasn’t offended that time. I even kind of found it funny.

But I was watching SNL last night and my hands flew to my mouth and I said that I didn’t think this would go over well. I did NOT find it funny. My great grandparents were murdered in the camp and my grand father was in one for a while. I like Larry but this was too much.

[Skooz]

For anyone interested in the subject, I cannot recommend this superb book highly enough.

And, yes, there was sex in the camps, according to Wachsmann's sources.

[Lurker]

I’ll continue to not watch him.

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[Maceman]

Yes. I’m aware of that.