Posted on 05/12/2012 7:48:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I bet she got a Jeweler’s magnifier for Chanukah, early on.
The old joke (and oh so true statement). My wife was not Jewish but she became one by injection.
True joke from an old friend who shall not be named:
“I always wanted a pretty woman with big breasts and little feet, and I married just the opposite”.
He could tell more jokes per minute than any other man I ever knew, and many were true, like the time he bought a Mickey Mouse phone for his business office. When he tried to use it the first time, he blew the phone lines for the whole building.
Another true, yiddish story. A late friend of my parents was a member of Toastmasters General, with a booming voice and as darn good story teller. However, he was also a practical joker such as the time he ordered chicken soup in a fancy restaurant. He then pulled out a rubber chicken from his tuxedo, called the waiter over and asked him to take the soup back because the chicken tasted like rubber. OR
One night my parents and E/with wife, were watching the movie “The Robe” about a Christian priest who was being crowned a Cardinal. Just at the moment he was to receive his Cardinal’s hat, someone in the audience sneezed, to which E replied: “Gey gesunteheit” (Go in good health) in Yiddish.
Needless to say he broke up the movie scene and the audience.
That’ssss all folkkkkks!
Chevy Chase is Jewish? With a name like Cornelius Crane Chase? That’s about as WASPy as you can get.
It’s not just the Jewish/Yiddish humor that is fading - it’s really the broader base of ethnic humor of every extraction. One poster’s recollection of a Jewish guy in Phoenix reminded me of my great-uncle in Phoenix, a second-generation Irishman that was a wholesale liquor salesman. He had a total repertoire of “Pat and Mike” jokes (his two sons are named Pat and Mike) that he would launch into at the drop of a hat. Of course, as another poster noted, a big part of the joke is the accent and Uncle Johnny was raised by an Irish immigrant mother so the accent came naturally. Since I was raised in KS, I didn’t get much time with him but I really enjoyed the few times I was around him.
You are correct. Somebody put out another story about his real name and the city of Chevy Chase.
Lorraine Newman, anyone?
Gilda Radner - definitely. Loved that girl and miss her wacky and very visual humor.
It’s not the joke, it’s how it’s told. (cases in point - Jack Benny’s long “take”, Myron Cohen’s raised eye brow , George Burns’ perfectly timed puff on his cigar.)
Or as George said of Gracie: The difference between a comic and a comedian is that a comic says funny things. A comedian says things funny.
Southern accents dying off too amongst richer souther gen y and milleniums
Sux
I drive a lot.....i you tube all the old Jewish guys when i tire of talk radio or ole rock
Rickles first
Henny
Benny
Berle
Joan
Gleason
Dangerfield
King
I miss them
As the SS were marching the villagers into the pit to meet their doom, Sol quietly whispers to his neighbor Jacob “Could be worse”. Jacob, incredulously, asks “How?”
Sol, softly explains, “Could be raining.”
I remember a Myron Cohen joke that went something like this:
Two Jewish tailors who are old acquaintances run into each other.
JT1: "Hey, I just got back from Rome. I met the Pope."
JT2: "Oh really. What kind of man was he?"
JT1: 46 long.
And the last major wave that I can think of that had a major effect on humor was “Seinfeld”, the show about nothing. Three of the four leads were Jewish - Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander and Julia L. Dreyfuss.
Kramer is Jewish too. And lots of the other characters too. Newman, and the older generation — the Seinfeld and costanza parents. Uncle Leo. They are all hilarious. On the one hand there was a lot of Jewish humor on the show. On the other hand the show was practically antiSemitic — probably something to do with Larry David who has a little self loathing thing going on.
“Rickles first”
Don Rickles has been around my whole life I guess, or at least as far back as I remember.
He never changes and I’ve really come to love the guy.
I watched him on David Letterman a while ago. I have really always despised Letterman but hubby likes him so sometimes we watch.
Letterman is such a bully but Rickles really ran all over the guy. He kept telling some story about years ago when I guess Letterman was just getting his start. Rickles kept talking about “I remember you carrying the luggage”. It was a pleasure to watch. I was LMAO.
Then I saw him on the wonderful show Jimmy Kimmel did in memorium of his Uncle Frank, Rickles knew him from back in the bad old days. He was actually very sweet.
After looking at the bill, the patient says "My God! I can't pay that with only six months left to live!", to which the doctor replies "In that case, I'll give you a year".
There's a new series on Starz, Magic City. It is about a Jewish hotel owner in Miami in 1959 dealing with jewish mobsters, staff, family and entertainers. ---- the writers must be kids --- Not a word of yiddish.
I don’t recall where I got it, but many years ago I picked up “The Big Book of Jewish Humor”. The dry humor & logic was so wonderful that I read nothing else until it was read all the way through.
There’s a new series on Starz, Magic City. It is about a Jewish hotel owner in Miami in 1959 dealing with jewish mobsters, staff, family and entertainers. —— the writers must be kids -— Not a word of yiddish.
Well, that is just wrong. They should every one have Yiddish and ny accents - or European or Russian accents. They did even in the 1970s in Los Angeles.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqLMXoQDbEQ
Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks 1959
My friend and I were just talking about good old Topo Gigio today, riding around with some young people who, of course, didn't have a clue.
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