Making Hitler an object of fun is no new idea, as Chaplin’s famous The Great Dictator took pointed shots at the man while he was still alive, and 1967 saw the aforementioned Mel Brooks’ seminal The Producers, which not only gave Hitler a daft platform but an impressive singing voice. The glorious Monty Python team wrote and performed a sketch where Hitler hides behind the pseudonym Mr Hilter, and comedian Richard Herring performed a set about his attempts to reclaim the iconic moustache for the […]
Dude, what if Hitler like came back to life of sth
Imagine what would happen, if Hitler woke up in 2011 in field in Germany, alive and well, thinking it was still 1945. Timur Vermes explores this idea in Look Who’s Back. In it, Hitler still has his old ideas about Jews, the French etc. and is soon discovered by TV producers, who find his ideas and delivery amusing and quickly find a spot for him on a popular TV show. The German nation loves his shtick and finds him to be a great Hitler impersonator […]