{"id":21342,"date":"2023-06-04T04:41:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T04:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/is-there-comedy-to-be-found-in-the-holocaust-what-other-subjects-are-taboo-off-limits-when-it-comes-to-comedy-or-are-there-any\/"},"modified":"2023-06-04T04:41:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T04:41:24","slug":"is-there-comedy-to-be-found-in-the-holocaust-what-other-subjects-are-taboo-off-limits-when-it-comes-to-comedy-or-are-there-any","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/is-there-comedy-to-be-found-in-the-holocaust-what-other-subjects-are-taboo-off-limits-when-it-comes-to-comedy-or-are-there-any\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there comedy to be found in the Holocaust? What other subjects are taboo\/off-limits when it comes to comedy, or are there any?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">After watching<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><i style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Life is Beautiful (1997)<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">, read the following interview with comedy legend Mel Brooks and answer the following prompt in a short essay (750-1000 words):&nbsp;<\/span><b style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Is there comedy to be found in the Holocaust? What other subjects are taboo\/off-limits when it comes to comedy, or are there any?<\/b><br style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto;\">https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/spiegel\/spiegel-interview-with-mel-brooks-with-comedy-we-can-rob-hitler-of-his-posthumous-power-a-406268.html<\/a><br style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">This is a formal piece of writing, so your writing needs to reflect that.<\/span><br style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Make sure your essay includes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">an introduction and a thesis (this should be the last sentence in your intro)<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">multiple body paragraphs (at least two, considering the word count). These should include references and examples from the film and the interview, as well as any other relevant examples,<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">a conclusion (with a restated thesis statement)<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">properly formatted citations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After watching&nbsp;Life is Beautiful (1997), read the following interview with comedy legend Mel Brooks and answer the following prompt in a short essay (750-1000 words):&nbsp;Is there comedy to be found in the Holocaust? What other subjects are taboo\/off-limits when it comes to comedy, or are there any?https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/spiegel\/spiegel-interview-with-mel-brooks-with-comedy-we-can-rob-hitler-of-his-posthumous-power-a-406268.htmlThis is a formal piece of writing, so your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[524],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/21342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/21342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=21342"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=21342"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=21342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}