Reposted by Dewi Ioan
Dolly broke me in early to her raucous self deprecating sense of humor
when we began steel magnolias rehearsals 
i asked her - how long does it take to do a hair do like yours?
Dolly - no idea, i’m never there when they do it!
i started taking Dolly-isms notes on the back of my script after that
![from Kliph Nesteroff's OUTRAGEOUS:
A comedian named Werner Fink was performing in a Berlin nightclub in 1935 when it was raided by police. Reuters reported, "Werner Finck, one of the best-known vaudeville stars in Germany, has been put in a concentration camp for "pulling the leg' of Nazi leaders ... He has been detained since in a secret police prison in Berlin. His 70-year-old mother has been unable to obtain any information regarding his whereabouts.
Actress Käthe Dorsch learned Fink was incarcerated at the Esterwegen concentration camp. She met directly with Nazi minister Hermann Göring to secure his release, and the comedian was freed in 1936.
"You know, it's funny," said Finck. "I walked around the camp and saw the walls, guards with their guns, and the heavy gates. Everybody told me how hard it was to get in-but all I did was speak one sentence."
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Berlin comedians "society rabble and intellectual snobs." Goebbels said, "There is plenty of humor in Germany, more than enough. But we do not permit ourselves to be ridiculed ... Such jokes make us wretch."
Five more comedians were banned "for publicly ridiculing Nazi party and state functionaries [and making] Nazi leaders the butts of their jokes."
"Comedians have no right to be jocular about such things as the Nazi four-year economic plan or Adolf Hitler's demand for colonies because they are too important and require too much careful thinking on the part of big minds," said Goebbels. The Nazis banned nearly all comedy-with the exception of anti-Semitic jokes and racist humor.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rt4rsqs66fyuw477an7i4dkr/bafkreiagx6gc47hwjfi67b4zv22ojbo5qpoycgoel5ttkq6xfub2suvkd4)
