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Hitler is hilarious. But I have a dry and dark sense of humor. I even believe that this style of humor indicates a clean state of mind.
An off-color joke takes two things for granted. The first is that the thing being joked about is self-evidentially repugnant and therefore ridiculous as only the grotesque can truly be. The second is a faith in the intellegence and moral quality of the listener. The assumption is that they too understand that murdering millions of Jews or slavery or raping children or racism is wrong and that one would have to be deranged to believe otherwise.
That is not to say that some people are not deranged. It is merely to say that you assume the person listening to your joke is not and has the smarts to not think you so for telling it. I don’t even find such jokes to be rude. I see them as a compliment and as an indication of comfort. They’re intimate; like taking your glove off before shaking someone’s hand.
A personal favourite joke of mine is this: Q: “What’s the best thing about fucking a nine year boy?” A: “If you flip him on his stomach he looks like a nine year old girl.”
Now, if someone thought I was a pedophile for finding that funny, I’d say that they have a serious mental problem. It is funny because pedophilia is so horrible that it’s become hilarious. A right thinking person cannot think that there is a “best thing” about fucking a nine year old, let alone that it would be that. It would obviously be how big your cock looks in their hand.
So it is with Hitler. He did unspeakably awful things. I have combed through book after book searching for some redeeming quality and have yet to find one. His much vaunted love of animals? He killed both of his dogs. His vegetarianism? Over rated and obsessive. Plus he was a tea-totaler and adamant anti-smoker, characteristics that are always dubious. His sex life? Bizarre at best. He shacked up with his 14 year old niece before driving the poor girl to suicide and was, apparently, fond of whipping her. His conversation was dull, he threw tantrums and bored people into submission. He was simply an ugly little man with a talent for oratory. In other words, he was your typical air-headed actor with an ego to match. And his so-called art was utterly pedestrian and dull.
He should be laughed at. People like this should be laughed at. We do not poke fun at the things that scare us and things like Hitler need to scare us to work. The Nazis understood that they could not be made ridiculous. (They once had a fellow murdered for selling a pig by saying it was “as fat as Goering.”) They knew that the whole thing could be deflated by pointing out the obvious. It was a group of brunettes, led by an obese junkie, a loudmouthed priss with a weird mustache and a cynical clubfoot, who were advocating a pure-living, blond-haired master race of supermen.
If that’s not funny then I don’t know what is. Well, maybe modern Nazis whining about their freedom of speech –or any of their freedoms– being infringed upon. That always makes me chuckle. You’d think they’d be happy to have their freedoms taken from them. That is, after all, their goal.
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