The limits of Stewart and Colbert

"Conversely and significantly, the vast majority of the joke tellers who were denounced and brought before special Nazi courts received a mild punishment, if any. Usually they were let off with a warning. 'Whispered jokes' were a surrogate for, and not a manifestation of, social conscience and personal courage."

-- Rudolph Herzog (trans. by Jefferson Chase), Dead Funny : Humor in Hitler's Germany (Brooklyn : Melville House, 2011), pgs. 2-3.