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Tjff 2012: ‘Hitler: The Comedy Years’ shows us why we still like to take the piss out of ol’ Adolf

30 April 2012 7:58 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Hitler: The Comedy Years

Jacques Peretti

UK, 2007

In 1939, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain asked the BBC to gather their best comedy writers to create satirical caricatures to delegitimize and discompose Germany’s leader, Adolf Hitler. With a diminutive stature, ludicrous hair and a literal comedic moustache, Hitler became instant ‘comedy gold’, and in Hitler: The Comedy Years, director Jacques Peretti shows us how it all happened, and why we still like to take the piss out of ol’ Adolf.

To track the highs and lows of Hitler related comedy, Peretti uses a long list of films and television shows that range from Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, to Mel Brooks’ The Producers, and sketches from Monty Python. As well as including smaller, more unfamiliar films, the documentary also relies an awful lot on British sit-coms, which will surely confound viewers on the wrong side of the Atlantic.

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