TagsTagsAt FrontPage, Steven Plaut looks at the ugly career of antisemitic French comedian Dieudonné: France’s Crackpot Comedian. It has been reported that Dieudonné described the Holocaust as a “memorial pornography.” In his standup sketches, Dieudonné does an impression of Bernard-Henri Lévy, the Jewish-French philosopher, haggling with a street potato seller. Dieudonné-as-Lévy ...
One of the most popular comedians in France is Dieudonné—an antisemitic, hate-spewing lunatic fond of dressing up in Nazi uniforms. When the curtain rises, he is greeted with roars and whoops by a packed, multi-racial audience, which is young, trendy, intellectual and left-wing. Many of them have come straight from the ...