As I travelled back from work the other day I lisrened to a Radio 4 comedy called 'Heresies'. The cental tenet being that it was to challenge orthodox opinions.
Sounded good but sadly it was just more tawdry rubbish, contemporary comedians demonstrating clearly that serving up abuse is actually no substitute for wit, imagination and timing.

Now at one point the comic Russel Brand did an extended rap on 'olocausts' the joke being that one 'olocaust was enough to make you an evil person.
Therefore Adolph Hitler was an evil person.
Hilarious and just so challenging too, making play with the near extinction of European Jewry.
But why did that deliberately dropped aitch in Holocaust really stick in my throat? Russel demonstrating that he is just one of the people an ordinary guy, and that for him is somehow more important than realising that there are no jokes to be made about zyclon B that it is simply beyond humour.
Was that heretical, to make a poor joke about one of the darkest chapters in human history?
If so give me conformism.