Chuck Munyon
09-25-2004, 04:33 PM
There is a terrific interview with Blackadder's Steven Fry at the Onion AV club. I highly recomment you check it you check it out.
www.theonionavclub.com
"I know my publishers wanted me to write a foreword to Making History saying, "Look, I am a Jew. I think I have a right to address this." But once you start having to say, "Look, this is the number of my family killed in the Holocaust. That gives me the right to discuss it and to think about it," then it becomes ridiculous. The Holocaust has no meaning if it doesn't affect us all. Anybody has a right to discuss the Holocaust. Because everyone is somehow complicit in it, as much as it was a cultural eruption of the most appalling kind. If we only believe it's something nasty to do with Germans, then essentially, the only answer is to round up all the Germans and put them in ovens. And obviously no one is suggesting that."
www.theonionavclub.com
"I know my publishers wanted me to write a foreword to Making History saying, "Look, I am a Jew. I think I have a right to address this." But once you start having to say, "Look, this is the number of my family killed in the Holocaust. That gives me the right to discuss it and to think about it," then it becomes ridiculous. The Holocaust has no meaning if it doesn't affect us all. Anybody has a right to discuss the Holocaust. Because everyone is somehow complicit in it, as much as it was a cultural eruption of the most appalling kind. If we only believe it's something nasty to do with Germans, then essentially, the only answer is to round up all the Germans and put them in ovens. And obviously no one is suggesting that."