There was an element of: “Let’s see if I am big enough to get away with a Holocaust joke” to it, which is what I meant by it being under developed. But really, he did not say anything offensive in the joke.
On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 8:02 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 7:28 AM, Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Jewish concentration camp joke misfires. >> >> https://youtu.be/G0eeNijdv3I >> > > Larry David had no real joke in that clip. His humor is about setting up > uncomfortable situations and probing how people react. While watching it I > felt he made a conscious decision to use a concentration camp for shock > value but the story did not pay off. It's possible that the right comic > with the right sensibility could find a joke that would pay off. I can't > conceive of what that joke would be, though. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
