Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Larry David is in hot water with "Saturday Night Live" viewers after making a joke about the Holocaust that's being slammed as insensitive.
"I've always been obsessed with women, and I've often wondered if I'd grown up in Poland when Hitler came to power and was sent to a concentration camp, would I be checking women out in the camp? I think I would," he said in his monologue.
"However, there are no good opening lines in a concentration camp."
David, 70, also touched upon the Harvey Weinstein scandal, stating that he felt it was giving other Jewish folks a bad rap.
He suggested that "a very disturbing pattern" of Jewish predators was emerging in Hollywood.
"Not all but many of them are Jews," he said in reference to allegations against Weinstein, Brett Ratner and others accused of sexual assault.
"I don't like when Jews are in the headlines for notorious reasons. I want 'Einstein discovers the theory of relativity,' 'Salk cures polio.' What I don't want? 'Weinstein took it out.
Not long after the questionable joke left David's lips, reactions began pouring in on Twitter
A few went digging into the archives and recalled that David has gone to the Holocaust comedy well before.
He did so in the fourth season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” the Philadelphia Inquirer noted, in which David’s character asked: “Do survivors like seeing each other; do they like to talk about old times?”
The rest of the segment involved David setting a Holocaust survivor up for dinner with a star of the TV show “Survivor,” which ended in a screaming match.
Long before “Curb Your Enthusiasm” existed, David was still show-running “Seinfeld.” In a 1994 episode of that hit comedy, Jerry Seinfeld and his girlfriend make out in a theater to “Schindler’s List,” which is also parodied later in the show.
So far there haven’t been any wide-scale calls to boycott “SNL” in the wake of last night’s monologue — just a lot of viewers who aren’t sure what David thought was funny about the idea of a randy concentration camp prisoner.
“Nothing is off limits in comedy, or for comedy. Nothing,” the AV Club wrote. “The best comedians turn s— into laughs.”
But, the writer continued: “This concentration camp joke wasn’t well crafted, imaginative, or skillfully delivered, all of which turned it into a cringe-worthy exercise in bad taste without the confidence in either his material or his delivery to make anything more of it.”
Or as the Inquirer put it more briefly:
“David’s problem wasn’t deciding to tell a joke about the Holocaust on Saturday Night Live — it was telling a Holocaust joke that many people didn’t find particularly funny.”
Like David I am Jewish and he said what I was thinking about the dominance of Jews names in the hollywierd sex preditor scandels.
Jews making jokes about that period is not new
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