http://www.metafilter.com/tags/tonyawards Posts tagged with 'tonyawards' at MetaFilter. Mon, 04 Jun 2001 13:20:59 -0800 Mon, 04 Jun 2001 13:20:59 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/8046/ <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/04/arts/04TONY.html">``I want to thank Hitler,'' Mr. Brooks said, ``for being such a funny guy on stage.'' </a> I just don't get this. I never got Hogan's Hero's. I never got Life is Beautiful. Comedy riding on the back of atrocity on any terms trivializes the atrocity. How can so many find this acceptable, to say nothing of funny? tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.8046 Mon, 04 Jun 2001 13:20:59 -0800 broadway comedy culture hitler irony poeticjustice tonyawards ParisParamus