This is a sketch of Pierre Desproges who said: "We can laugh about everything but not with everybody!"
You have to know that we can't see this sketch everywhere. France 2 had to wait one in the morning to broadcast it.
Do you think we need to know who is Pierre Desproges and what is his type of humor to understand that is not anti-Semitic? Or maybe, you think this is anti-Semitic?What's the difference between this sketch and what Dieudonné said?
Do you think that someone has to be jewish to be able to make laugh about Jews?
In a general way, can we only make laugh about what we are (religion, politics...)?
Enjoy or not. React!
Hm I found this quite hard to understand, but I don't think the Jewish topic is introduced 'racistly' because it's obviously humorous. On the other hand I do wonder what it must be like to be the sole target of comedy like this. Any Jewish people here?
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ReplyDeleteThose are very good questions!
I think that, definitely, it is necessary to know who is Pierre Desproges and know his type of humor to understand that is not anti-Semitic.
The diference between what he says and what Dieudonné says is OUR point of vue about those two men. We all know what Dieudonné said and did, and it still goes on today, and we all know that what he said had a real meaning, and a desire to hurt somme people. He has hatred inside himself, and everybody knows that. That's why he doesn't make us laught.
On the contrary, some humorists like Pierre Desproges, or Coluche, or even Muriel Robin (I am thinking about the sketch in which her daughter announces her she's going to get married to a black man =) don't mean to hurt people. They just want to be cynical to make people react about some people who are really racists/ anti-Semitic.