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To: nickcarraway

It seems that Jewish comedians live to a ripe old age much more than the general population.

George Burns (100)
Henny Youngman (91)
Carl Reiner (90)+
Sid Caesar (89)+
Mel Brooks (85)+
Milton Berle (93)
Morey Amsterdam (87)
Jackie Mason (75)+
Jerry Lewis (86)+
Jerry Stiller (84)+
Anne Meara (83)+
Jack Benny (80)
Victor Borge (91)

The ones that are still alive (indicated by a ‘+’) are still mostly active professionally.


8 posted on 04/01/2012 6:36:41 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (May Mitt Romney be the Paul Tsongas of 2012.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Anne Meara is or was Catholic IIRC, but her hubby Jerry Stiller is Jewish. Not sure how Ben Stiller was raised.

BTW, to REALLY live long, be a Borscht Belt comic who smokes a cigar!

10 posted on 04/01/2012 6:59:50 PM PDT by boop (I hate hippies and dopeheads. Just hate them. ...Ernest Borgnine)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Jerry Stiller (84)+
Anne Meara (83)+

Jerry Stiller is Jewish; his wife, Anne Meara, is not ethnically Jewish, but Irish Catholic by birth.

13 posted on 04/01/2012 9:35:18 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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