![]() "It feels like a victory for Hitler that, 70 years on, he still has a vestige of a victory that this is still his moustache and not, for instance, Charlie Chaplin's." I'm using the Hitler moustache to oppose fascism. "I was trying to reclaim it as a political protest against the BNP. "After I grew it back again, I knew that if anyone challenged me, I had a reason to give them. His parents' impending golden wedding celebrations gave him another excuse to shave it off but he grew it back with added purpose, because the BNP European election gains had given his forthcoming Edinburgh show - and his facial hair - a political focus. Then I wondered if I was upsetting anyone, and was it worth it if I had done." ![]() I was being judged by my appearance and being a white, middle-class man I've never looked to draw attention to myself before. "I thought that at any moment someone might smack me in the face. The moustache made him so paranoid about what judgements people were making that he shaved it off after the first week. I haven't had any sense of anger but I think some people were intimidated or scared." "As people passed they would start laughing about five yards behind me. He first grew it more than three months ago and the first few days were very unsettling for him. Now comedian Richard Herring is sporting a toothbrush moustache for his Edinburgh show, Hitler Moustache, in which he rails against voter apathy and the BNP. Since World War II it has not been popular, but long before Hitler rose to power, the toothbrush was the signature look of Charlie Chaplin.Ĭhaplin even played on his likeness to the German leader by sending him up in The Great Dictator, although when filming stopped his false moustache would be packed away with his trademark walking stick and hat. Moustaches come in all sorts of styles but the sight of a toothbrush moustache, with its narrow width and straight, untapered sides, is very rare. So how did people react and could it ever be fashionable? A comedian has grown a toothbrush moustache in an attempt to break its association with Adolf Hitler. ![]()
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