My friends wife is Jewish. Her mother was named ‘Goldie’ and she was quick witted with that inherent jewish style humor. Some of it was downright corny and kooky but made you laugh with just the delivery.
You just reminded me that Goldie Hawk is Jewish, as is Chevy Chase. Ben and Jerry Stiller (Seinfeld).
Andrew Dice Clay. Get him rolling on his old stuff and he’s have you rolling in the aisles. Gilbert Gottfried in “Ford Fairlane” was pretty funny, if not noisy.
Jon Lovitz is performing up the street from me right now. Loved him in “League of Their Own”. He got away with one of the funniest lines ever in movies when he told Tom Hanks and the women players (Gina Davis, etc), that he was tired and going home for dinner, a cigar and to “pickle his wife”.
Can’t forget Don “HockeyPuck” Rickles, Joey Bishop, Jack E. Leonard, Sheckie Green, Shelley Berman, Phil Silvers, Alan Sherman (”Hello Mother, Hello Father”), Sid Caesar and gang, Jerry Lewis (saw him do a great show eventhough he was very sick, a really trooper), and Sammie Davis Jr.
There really was a “Golden Age of Television” and it sure isn’t now.
Add in there, Henny Youngman and Victor Borge, for the old folks. “Take my wife, please!”