Joking about the Holocaust or the Nazis might’ve worked in past years, but not in 2017, says Jeremy Dauber. “David’s invocation of the concentration camp on Saturday as a kind of peekaboo provocation—kidding/not kidding; comedy is tragedy plus time—might ring particularly hollow in an America where neo-Nazis march openly on the streets and white-nationalist memes proliferate online.”
TOPICS: NBC, Saturday Night Live, Larry David, Charlottesville