Anne Frank jokes are quite the fashion in some circles. Search the Web and see. The one about the drum is pretty mild.

So it isn't just one BBC joker - it's a phenomenon, one that unfortunately coincides with the whole "Holocaust didn't happen" thing. Both seem to have gotten underway around 1980.

Nobody will be going to Hell (I hope) just for telling an Anne Frank joke, but it's barbaric to defend their hilarity and boast of appreciating it.

Sick and dying people of course have the right to laugh at their own condition for as long as they can. But when the fat and happy take time to defend, in ingenious ways, Gestapo-style humor at the expense of a dead girl, something's wrong with the picture.