Man Trying To Ban Mel Brooks’ “The Producers” Because He Thinks It Will Make People Like Nazis

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Mel Brooks has had a lot of success with The Producers since 1968. The Washingtonian is reporting that one guy’s still real mad about Mel making Hitler jokes.

Jeffrey Imm from the group, Responsible For Equality and Liberty, is pushing to get the Maryland-based Olney Theatre revival of The Producers musical shutdown — only two days before the musical is set to end its run. When asked of Brooks, Imm said: “I know about his comedy. I don’t agree with him. I think it’s vulgar.”

He explained that The Producers is, in his view, immoral: “This is the point of morality: some things we have to recognize as absolute evil. When 6 million people are murdered, we don’t view it with knee-slapping, we view it with reverence.”

Brandon Ambrosino, a member of The Producers cast at Olney, defended Brooks. “Brooks wasn’t trying to whitewash Hitler, and he certainly wasn’t trying to glorify him. As Brooks has often explained, he saw it as his goal to mock Hitler.”

Imm continued to rant, saying, “It would be no more funny if somebody did a comedy with a play that’s not going to work because it’s about Osama bin Laden. We cannot laugh about that.”

Imm is not a comedian, so he might not realize that a Producers-bin Laden story would be pretty funny also.

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