I think it's still a pretty short list. Chaplin holds up, Lubitsch holds up, and Mel Brooks pulled it off splendidly with The Producers (1968). After that I start to have trouble thinking of examples. I'm sure there's something obvious I'm forgetting, but even so.
I don't think it was often done successfully. But it's being done. Incidentally, I'd only add one name to your list as for comedies/farces dealing with the Third Reich directly, and that's a theatre play: George Tabori's Mein Kampf. Mind you, it's one of those "laughter sticks in your throat" cases, not to mention a "only a Jewish writer who lost his mother and a great part of his family in Auschwitz and experienced persecution and exile himself had the right to write something with this premise" case. Also I don't think I'll ever watch it again. But it is undoubtedly a powerful piece of theatre, and artistically successful. (Incidentally, there was a film version, but it flopped resoundingly, whereas the play is a recurring success through the last decades. Not sure what this says about the theatre audience, but there it is.
(Speaking of plays, there is of course the written-during-the-event Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui by Brecht, which he called "a historical farce", but I've never seen it performed on stage, so I can't say whether or not it works for me; I've only read excerpts, including the famous epilogue. "Ihr aber lernet, wie man sieht, statt stiert/Und handelt, statt zu reden noch und noch./So was hätt' einmal fast die Welt regiert!/Die Völker wurden seiner Herr, jedoch(Dass keiner uns zu früh da triumphiert –/ Der Schoß ist fruchtbar noch, aus dem das kroch." )
If we add comedies that aren't set in during the twelve years themselves but deal with some of their aftermaths, then I'd also add Helmut Dietl's movie Schtonk! (which takes its title from the nonsensical exclamation Chaplin's Hynkel yells into the microphone), which uses the rl event of the Hitler Diaries fraud for a biting satire.
But yes. Short list. Obviously this more than any is where personal triggers and squicks apply, and what works for one won't work for the other. But, for example: this is why a show like Hogan's Heroes doesn't work for me.
Re: Collaborators, I hope it's staged somewhere I can watch, it sounds fascinating.
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I think it's still a pretty short list. Chaplin holds up, Lubitsch holds up, and Mel Brooks pulled it off splendidly with The Producers (1968). After that I start to have trouble thinking of examples. I'm sure there's something obvious I'm forgetting, but even so.
I don't think it was often done successfully. But it's being done. Incidentally, I'd only add one name to your list as for comedies/farces dealing with the Third Reich directly, and that's a theatre play: George Tabori's Mein Kampf. Mind you, it's one of those "laughter sticks in your throat" cases, not to mention a "only a Jewish writer who lost his mother and a great part of his family in Auschwitz and experienced persecution and exile himself had the right to write something with this premise" case. Also I don't think I'll ever watch it again. But it is undoubtedly a powerful piece of theatre, and artistically successful. (Incidentally, there was a film version, but it flopped resoundingly, whereas the play is a recurring success through the last decades. Not sure what this says about the theatre audience, but there it is.
(Speaking of plays, there is of course the written-during-the-event Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui by Brecht, which he called "a historical farce", but I've never seen it performed on stage, so I can't say whether or not it works for me; I've only read excerpts, including the famous epilogue. "Ihr aber lernet, wie man sieht, statt stiert/Und handelt, statt zu reden noch und noch./So was hätt' einmal fast die Welt regiert!/Die Völker wurden seiner Herr, jedoch(Dass keiner uns zu früh da triumphiert –/
Der Schoß ist fruchtbar noch, aus dem das kroch." )
If we add comedies that aren't set in during the twelve years themselves but deal with some of their aftermaths, then I'd also add Helmut Dietl's movie Schtonk! (which takes its title from the nonsensical exclamation Chaplin's Hynkel yells into the microphone), which uses the rl event of the Hitler Diaries fraud for a biting satire.
But yes. Short list. Obviously this more than any is where personal triggers and squicks apply, and what works for one won't work for the other. But, for example: this is why a show like Hogan's Heroes doesn't work for me.
Re: Collaborators, I hope it's staged somewhere I can watch, it sounds fascinating.