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Richard Herring: Hitler Moustache
 Richard Herring: Hitler Moustache ... why innocent square inch of facial hair took blame for Nazism.Newest Review: ... to happen. Herring defends his facial topiary as no adolescent desire to shock, but as a sincere attempt to fight fascism with ridicule, much as the moustache's originator Charlie Chaplin sought to do in the 1930s, before the bristles became inextricably associated with the arguably more influential Führer of Germany. Herring ponders whether comedy and fascism are really all that different, ... more ... and this 2009 Fringe show certainly demonstrates the inherent humour to be found in such pieces of fascist propaganda as the recent BNP leaflet.
Herring's risky opening gambit is to propose that maybe racists have a point, creating a prickly atmospher...more |
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Richard Herring: Hitler Moustache: Edinburgh Fringe 2009: Richard Herring - Hitler Moustache (602 words)
by - written on 11/08/09 (Very useful, 75 readings)
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Richard Herring never believed them when they said you get more right-wing as you get older, but as the forty-two-year-old Fringe veteran takes to the familiar stage in the sweaty Underbelly for his eighteenth Edinburgh festival, wearing a severe suit and sporting a genuine Hitler moustache, the audience is forced to question whether he's finally lost it. Having survived an embarrassing mid-life crisis in 'Oh F*ck, I'm 40!' and exposed his tragically untroubled youth in last year's sell-out show 'The Headmaster's Son,' Herring's new show takes a hard look at Britain's racist attitudes in the summer that saw the British National Party gain two seats in the ... Read the complete review
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