“A musical about Hitler, written by an admirer of the Fuhrer, however an admirer with some intellectual disabilities, is a worthy response to the grotesque and macabre theater that extreme violence always is. Precisely because Brooks refuses to practice realism, thereby refusing to depict certain places (the camps), his depiction of the Third Reich is sublime.”

Today in Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant Grunberg’s essay on Mel Brooks and humor.