Hey! You! Don’t make jokes that you’re a Nazi! Okay? Why? Well, everyone will think you’re some Jew hating swine and, as conspiracy theorists will feverishly tell you, they rule the entire world. Just make jokes about being a sex offender instead, as that has the required ‘edge’ to make simpletons laugh.
Falling foul of the whole ‘I’m a Nazi’ joke is director Lars von Trier who is now persona non grata at the Cannes Film Festival.
See, while at a press conference promoting his new film Melancholia, Lars japed that he was a Jew and a Nazi, with stars of the flick, Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg, looking on in apparent disbelief. With the latter, that’s particularly difficult to imagine bearing in mind that her father, the brilliant Serge, drunkenly said rude words on a chat show to Whitney Houston and once made a dodgy song called ‘Lemon Incest’ which featured a shirtless Charlotte who, being twelve at the time, sang ambiguous lyrics about the sex between an adult and a child.


