Anne Frank Jokes OK for Comedy Central Prep Show

Jon Hayman, a former "Seinfeld" writer and Jewish, recently did a routine on a Comedy Central-sponsored "Sit ’n Spin" night that left some in the audience and backstage groaning.

The comic pretended to be Anne Frank reading a typical teenage girl's summer camp diary entries – only the camp in the sketch was Auschwitz.

Hayman's routine had Frank, who actually died in Bergen-Belsen, innocently wondering why the Dachau and Auschwitz softball teams wore the same uniforms, referring to the pulling of gold teeth as camp arts and crafts, and offering lewd descriptions of sexual encounters with historical figures such as Jackie Kennedy, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., according to Forward magazine.

Annie Korzen, a comic actress who had a small recurring role on "Seinfeld," heckled Hayman afterward, calling him an "abomination." Korzen in her rebuttal routine called Hayman's routine an example of "the contempt that some Jewish men have for Jewish women."

Ron Zimmerman, who has been a producer on the WB's family drama "Seventh Heaven," then took the stage and read from Holocaust revisionist literature, asking why Korzen was not heckling.

Finally, the management cut his set short, announcing the show's end and cuing the house band. Zimmerman shouted: "Imbeciles! Get out! And I won't leave the stage until you're all gone! The last Jewish man standing, that's what I am!"

Some of the comedy writers, says Forward, are still upset by what they see as the intrusion of prudishness into their oasis for ribald humor.

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