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I think Mel Brooks sets the boundaries pretty damn clearly
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/spiegel-interview-with-mel-brooks-with-comedy-we-can-rob-hitler-of-his-posthumous-power-a-406268.html
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SPIEGEL: Can you really separate Hitler from the Holocaust?
Brooks: You have to separate it. For example, Roberto Benigni's comedy Life Is Beautiful really annoyed me. A crazy film that even attempted to find comedy in a concentration camp. It showed the barracks in which Jews were kept like cattle, and it made jokes about it. The philosophy of the film is: people can get over anything. No, they cant. They cant get over a concentration camp.
SPIEGEL: But the film has deeply moved a lot of people.
Brooks: I always asked myself: Tell me, Roberto, are you nuts? You didnt lose any relatives in the Holocaust, youre not even Jewish. You really dont understand what its all about. The Americans were incredibly thrilled to discover from him that it wasnt all that bad in the concentration camps after all. And thats why they immediately pressed an Oscar into his hand.
SPIEGEL: So there are limits to humor?
Brooks: Definitely. In 1974, I produced the western parody "Blazing Saddles," in which the word **** was used constantly. But I would never have thought of the idea of showing how a black was lynched. Its only funny when he escapes getting sent to the gallows. You can laugh at Hitler because you can cut him down to normal size.
Michael Reagan and Patti Davis outraged by use of REAGAN's Alzheimer's for a comedy Apr 28, 15:03
Tough Bite. Inside is a Complete List of all the Comedies that have never Outraged or Offended a Single Person. Apr 28, 15:09
How many based on a real person's illness? {nm} Apr 28, 15:09
Please Provide a List of all the Things that you can't Make a Comedy about & Explain Why. Thanks. {nm} Apr 28, 15:18
I think Mel Brooks sets the boundaries pretty damn clearly Apr 28, 15:21
+1 {nm} Apr 29, 05:34
You didn't answer the question. {nm} Apr 28, 15:24
You didn't Provide the List. ..... Waiting. {nm} Apr 28, 15:29
You're hilarious. I asked first. You changed the subject. {nm} Apr 28, 15:32
his google searches came up empty but here's one - The Madness of King George {nm} Apr 28, 15:36
I haven't seen it, but seems more like a straight biopic Apr 28, 15:39
its more dramedy than comedy but theres a enough humor in it to qualify in this discussion {nm} Apr 28, 15:41
To me, this is the same thing as how I find The Producers hilarious and Life is Beautiful offensive Apr 28, 15:19
They could just change the name of the President. {nm} Apr 28, 15:27
The Comedy 'Hogan's Heroes' was about a Nazi Concentration Camp (Prisoner Of War - POW Camp). {nm} Apr 28, 15:29
Brooks is talking about death camps {nm} Apr 28, 15:38
Nobody Died in the Nazi POW Concentration Camps? {nm} Apr 28, 15:50
not in Hogan's Heroes, no. In fact, HH's is criticized for trivializing what camps were really like Apr 28, 15:58
Amazing true fact: The guy who played LeBeau on Hogan's Heroes had been in a German concentration camp Apr 28, 22:59
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - mental illness {nm} Apr 28, 18:36
If this was a movie made mocking a person who died of AIDS, would there be a different reaction? {nm} Apr 28, 15:31
"When AIDS was Funny". Reagan administration's chilling response to the AIDS crisis... Apr 28, 15:42
+1. {nm} Apr 28, 15:51
Thjey made fun of Reagan's Alzheimer's while he was still alive.... Apr 28, 16:04
What is that? A British puppet show? {nm} Apr 28, 16:20
You lived through the 80's Anti.... you saw that puppet here... Apr 28, 16:30
Oh wow.. I remember that now. {nm} Apr 29, 05:36
this seems like the occasion for which the term "too soon" was invented {nm} Apr 28, 23:00
Michael and Patti need to read up on the term "Streisand effect". {nm} Apr 29, 09:37
