Hitler still killing years later - Nick Wade

A new advertisement set to be released on German television depicts Hitler in a steamy encounter with a woman and a tag line that reads “AIDS is a mass murderer”. The ad campaign is aimed to counter a fall in public awareness about the virus and promote safe sex.
For those of you who don’t find this to be utterly hilarious and stupid, stop reading now you obviously don’t understand basic humour. For those of you who wish to learn, listen closely. AIDS is tragic, and by itself is not funny, Hitler was a meanie and by himself is not funny. However Hitler + AIDS = Very funny. So you see this is my proven formula that two wrongs make a funny.

Dirk Silz creative director of the Das committee agency is quoted as saying “We asked ourselves what face we could give to the virus, and it couldn’t be a pretty face”. Well Dirk Silz your right, up until now I myself thought aids was a walk in the park, but if Hitler’s concerned it must be bad. On the bright side we may now have a cure to the deadly virus, I’m pretty sure last time Hitler got up to his devious old ways we rounded up an army of Allied troops and marched right on over there to give him a slap on the wrist. By my reasoning this trusted solution ought to work like a charm on the pesky old AIDS virus.

As if the topic of AIDS and Hitler wasn’t serious enough this whole situation could actually be breaching a much larger and in my opinion far more important issue. I speak of course about the age old debate of “how soon is too soon?” This question has plagued comedians the world over for generations and in a recent poll has been discovered to actually be a much more pressing issue than finding a cure for aids.

You see Hitler and his holocaust was roughly 70 years ago and yet it’s still not funny, where as the untimely death of Steve Irwin was a mere 3 years ago, his family lives on without him and despite this the situation is already hilariously funny. In my opinion the solution to this problem should be next on our scientists list of things to do, a quantifiable formula to determine exactly how long it takes before a tragic situation ceases to be heart rending and starts to be laughable.