What Did Hitler Think About Jazz? | QI 

Maybe has was wheat intolerant and needed gluten free pastas (but didn’t know it) which probably wasn’t a thing in the 40’s

Now I understand why italians have disavowed him today.

Unfortunately the anti-pasta only campaign led to people eating salami and cheeses

I once heard about that on a show called QI!

well. that's political reasons. Doesn't mean he actually hated it as food.

I laughed like an idiot over that.

That was a moment of perfect TV timing.

Jackrabbit? WORSHIP IT WORSHIP IT WORSHIP IT WORSHIP IT

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it's on youtube many times over already. Including in her (shamefully short) best bits video on this channel.

It's the hypocrisy that gets to me

​@@dielaughing73it's the worst part...

It wasn't original when Norm said it. Groucho said it a hundred years ago

@@zapkvr You could be right. Norm did have a habit of recycling/improving old jokes, e.g. the moth one, the frog in the bank, and many others. Hadn't heard about Groucho doing this but it's plausible.

@@zapkvr how many years ago? Edit - oh damn, he was born in 1890 so I take it back!

Yes.

Who didn't?

Her father Romano was a pretty good jazz pianist in his own (far-)right.

Japanese city pop? It was italo disco.

@@simonh9987 the album she released had both city pop and italo disco, but her most popular song tokyo fantasy is city pop.

@@behemoth5344 Didn't he compose the song "Hanging around at the gas station?"

Not to be confused with Swing Girls, which is a comedy about a group of teenage girls who form a jazz group.

I loved that film!!!

Bei mir bist du schön.

@@elaineb7065 Swing Kids or Swing Girls?

⁠@@ikarikid Or the Korean film Swing Kids about North Korean prisoners of war coming together to form a tap dance troupe. Apparently this is a popular film title.

But there is a specific sound or set of sounds that is pure jazz.

You"re exactly right. Experimentation, improvisation, and above all *freedom*, are at the heart of what jazz is. Whatever rules there supposedly are, what's most important is how the musicians choose to break them. In this way, jazz, like much art, defies classification.

@@joshuaworden274 Early jazz is true jazz, anything else is a derivative.

@@Pagliacci_Rex when did jazz stop being jazz?

@@pipjackson8884 It didn't, that sound is still jazz. Stuff by people like Duke Ellington and his contemporaries.

In fact, I think this was brought up on a different episode of QI.

Lazy? That's ridiculous. I'll explain why when I've finished this fettuccine alfredo... maybe. Assuming I can even be bothered to finish this sen

The more I hear about this guy the more I like him

Does that technically make you a fascist?

@@simonh9987 I’m gonna RICE to power.

I agree, but I like mine hot.

@@quarkine1 Hitler did not shake hands with any Black athletes at the Olympics. He only shook hands with a few German gold metal winner and a few Finnish ones. He was told by the IOC that he would have to shake every gold medalists' hands or none of them, and he opted for none. Hitler believed that the Germans were part of a "pure, Aryan race" and that all other races were inferior. If you read otherwise somewhere, that source is absolutely wrong and likely a revisionist history attempting to sanitize Nazi history. Hitler's horrendous actions and views should not diminish our acknowledgement of the incredible racism and discrimination that black Americans experience (and continue to). The American president, Roosevelt, refused to acknowledge the achievements of American black athletes at the Olympics.

If you do want to learn more, the term 'Entartete Musik' is a good starting point.

​@@quarkine1 Hitler only shook those hands because it would have been embarrassing to do anything else. He was exceptionally angry that black people beat his aryan super team, and was angry that the US would use what were essentially animals to him to win a competition like the Olympics. Nazi opposition to jazz music was explicitly about being against negroe influence on pure German society. I'm not sure how it is shocking to you that the nazis were racist, it was the basis of their entire ideology.

@@Joe-sg9ll Jazz is the gospel truth in music. The most beautifuil noise there is. What a shame it is beyond your musical understanding. I'm sorry for you. I hope you don't have too much more in common with Hitler and Stalin.

Today I learnt Dwayne Johnson is older than I thought.

what do you think about the new Jeopardy he's doing?

3/4 time is uncommon in jazz.

probably 90% of jazz is 4/4 - I cant think of many 3/4 songs at all

@@adamhowemusic283 Waltz for Debbie?

I wouldn't say jazz is known for being in 3/4, but it is true that a lot of the jazz hate (and nowadays it's mainly rap hate), saying it's not real music etc, is often based on racism.

Well, the guy is Erik Striker, iirc. He has some “politics”

I'm honestly baffled by this as well. I mean the researchers made a joke that actually the dictators were right to hate jazz. This completely disavows an entire culture and is really ignorant of the intricate musical qualities of the genre, and its rich history. I could speculate why Brits can be so dismissive of jazz but I'll pass...

@@sayno2lolzisback It seems particularly ridiculous to say they were "right" about jazz given what their reasons for hating jazz were. Like even if you don't enjoy jazz music, I DEFINITELY hope your reasons for it are different from Hitler's.

@@Geothesponge111 Right? now we are getting into speculation over why Brits don't like jazz but maybe I'd be accused of 'wokery'.

Where can we find it?

True, unless you live in Cologne :D

except I make a living writing about Jazz in Germany. And I know from lots of Interviews that Jazz Musicians enjoy playing in Germany because Jazz is much more appreciated here (and in Europe) than in the US.

He looked a little guilty for pinching it.

Improvisational pronunciation.

@@notrappaport5340 😉

The Dizzy Gillespie has one more blade than a regular Gillespie.

I think Gyles Brandreth mentions him in another episode too, something about hulahoops and hips.

No they don't. I believe Sandy doesn't, too. In an episode, she said something like jazz players are like "musicians searching for a tune". 😂

also i would guess that "moustaches" was a klaxon

That's ironic, considering the obnoxious cacophony that is their klaxon.

John Oliver: "Congress is like jazz, it's about the bills they're *not* passing. It's also like jazz in that anyone who says they like it is lying" 😂

@@jamesbernardini9063 Well, just like the rest of us, John Oliver can't be right all the time. I mean, when you're talking about jazz, you're actually talking about a large spectrum of music that's lumped together under that term. From big band to bebop to cool jazz, to jazz fusion, and everything in between. I don't like ALL jazz, but there's plenty of it that I do like.

did the rabbis see the germans as equal or did they see them and all non jews as human cattle?

This is the way English sounds when it is properly spoken. Perhaps you need to study more?

I’m not sure how I feel about that comment.

Well Jimmy Carr has said it, but dont know if he heard somebody else say it and recycled it

When you compare one of the greatest comedians of all time with a square-faced hack, theft may ensue. Ah, but he's a good guy.

@@behemoth5344 or so the Germans would have us believe...

@@PwrShelf Hahaha, where do you get your ideas from?

@@behemoth5344 my strongest material comes from real life...

and whos still alive?

I mean it's not really a specific or original bit. It's the obvious joke to make in that context

i didn't even know he was sick

Jazz is musical masturbation.

There's a difference between not liking something and actively ordering your secret police to arrest people who do like it.

dude, there's no narrative here to be skewed. "It's series J. Let's do a bunch of research on random J words then coble together some themed episodes." That's the entirety of the planning. You read far too much into it.

Germans tended to prefer Wagner or marching-bands!

Moronic take

Ooh, so that was what he was ranting about in The Fall.

Kinda right ---- It was a band put together by Goebbels - for broadcasting to the the UK. The members of the band -- were all White Germans --- who played an improvised 'swing' style.

What timestamp are you referring to?

@@stradivarius151 his initial answer to Stephen's question.

Pasta

Pasta or Mussolini surrendered

@@justinpilgrim9342 thanks

It's complicated. The oldest video of Norm making the joke is from 2013, this episode aired in 2012. I'm not saying he didn't steal it, but it's hard to find evidence of it being said earlier; at least in relation to Hitler. The joke "the more I learn about X, the less I like him" sounds like too easy a joke to make for it to not have existed some time before 2012. But I cannot confirm that.

more of a comment, really.

I doubt he would mind it, he had dementia at the end

He steals all his jokes.

This is a really old joke , I believe it was originally for Chinese people...

Awful opinion. Four Women by Nina Simone is quite possible the greatest piece of music ever

still bad lol@@default3252

So with you on that!

It’s only for musicians; must be fun to play, but I don’t need to be there to hear it.

Four Women by Nina Simone is quite possibly the greatest song of all time

youve probably only heard white people jazz

@@gumshake689 nope. I’ve heard all sorts of Jazz. Can’t stand it. Self indulgent nonsense. But different strokes for different folks. I’m sure some people like it.