Comedian and filmmaker Mel Brooks once said that only Jews can make jokes about the Holocaust. But, there’s a problem with that statement: it comes from Mel Brooks. So, I’m not sure if he was joking ...

It goes without saying that “Jojo Rabbit” shouldn’t work. A coming-of-age comedy whose hero is a 10-year-old German boy during World War II who wants to grow up to be a Nazi? Adolf Hitler as comic ...

New Zealand-born filmmaker Taika Waititi's brilliant, humane and daring black comedy "Jojo Rabbit" opens Friday. An imaginative and deeply lonely 10-year-old German lad (Jojo), in a tour de force from ...

“Jojo Rabbit,” a fantastical satire from “Thor: Ragnarok” director Taika Waititi, is set in Nazi Germany. (The film, now in theaters, opened Austin’s Fantastic Fest in September.) Waititi plays the ...

One episode was enough, to be honest. The genesis of Taika's childish brand of humor. 'The Boy and The Octopus' follows a young boy who encounters a curious octopus while snorkeling on a seaside ...

Charlie Chaplin did it in The Great Dictator. Mel Brooks and Jack Benny did in their respective versions of To Be or Not to Be. Brooks also wrote and directed the most hilarious send-up of all with ...

Jojo is ordered to demonstrate his Nazi credentials by wringing the neck of a rabbit. He can't bring himself to kill the poor thing, and runs away into the forest, humiliated. Thomasin McKenzie (left) ...

Viewers familiar with the antic wit of Taika Waititi – from comedies such as “What We Do in the Shadows,” “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” and “Thor: Ragnarok” – might wonder what he’ll next pull out of ...

Viewers familiar with the antic wit of Taika Waititi — from such comedies as “What We Do in the Shadows,” “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” and “Thor: Ragnarok” — might wonder what he’ll next pull out of ...