Just like leaf blowers, Hitler can be funny

By Ian Warden
Updated April 23 2018 - 9:29pm, first published March 5 2014 - 3:00am

Even as we write, a feature film is being made, for release next year, of Timur Vermes' just-published novel Look Who's Back and we look forward to the ACT Liberals, led by humourless and indignation-prone Giulia Jones, trying to ban it here. The book and the film laugh at Hitler, but Ms Jones' histrionic fuss over the Hitler stripper at the Fringe Festival shows she can't see the big difference between portraying Hitler and barracking for him.

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