Bill Maher came for tons of criticism since he chose to dine with President Donald Trump, but nothing was as biting as a recent withdrawal by the creator of “Seinfeld” Larry David.
In a test for the New York Times called “My Dinner With Adolf”, David took Maher for trying to soften the image of a very fascist man. While David never mentions the host “in real time” by his name, the moment of the room and the need of his main character to hear all sides beyond the point of ridicule to make the target clear.
David’s fictitious meeting with Adolf Hitler echoes many points that Maher raised in the days that followed with Trump. Maher, a crochet liberal comic strip which has become more crochet and less liberal, because the societal standards passed him, amazed by the fact that he could make the commander -in -chief laugh.
“I have never seen him laugh in public. But he does it, including himself. And that is not wrong,” said Maher about Trump. “Believe me, as a 40-year-old actor, I know a false laugh when I hear it.”
Standing in front of the Führer, David’s narrator has a similar epiphany.
“I was here, ready to meet Hitler, the one I saw and heard – the Hitler public,” wrote David. “But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And curiously, it seemed more authentic, as it was the real Hitler. It all turned your head.”
David ends the room with the distraught narrator missing the fact that he was played. While he always considers himself as a critic of the biggest monster in history, he is a smart salute to Hitler all the same.
“” I must say, I führer, I am so grateful. Although we do not agree on many questions, that does not mean that we have to hate ourselves “, he says before Sieg Heil-id on the night of Berlin.
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