Subject: Those Fabulous Jewish Comedians I'm sure you've previously seen these but the laughs are always there .... The Way We Were ... Memories light the corners of my mind Misty water-colored memories of the way we were Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind Smiles we gave to one another for the way we were. Can it be that it was all so simple then -Those fabulous Jewish Comedians the old Jewish Catskill comics Of Vaudeville days: Shecky Greene , Red Buttons , Totie Fields , Joey Bishop , Milton Berle , Jan Murray , Danny Kaye , Henny Youngman , Buddy Hackett , Sid Caesar , Groucho Marx, Jackie Mason , Woody Allen , Lenny Bruce , George Burns , Allan Sherman , Jerry Lewis, Carl Reiner , Shelley Berman , Gene Wilder, George Jessel , Alan King, Mel Brooks , Phil Silvers , Jack Carter , Rodney Dangerfield , Don Rickles , Jack Benny Mansel Rubenstein And so many others. There was not one single swear word in their comedy. Here are a few examples: * I just got back from a pleasure trip. I took my mother-in-law to the airport. * I've been in love with the same woman for 49 years! If my wife ever finds out, she'll kill me! * What are three words a woman never wants to hear when she's making love? "Honey, I'm home!" * Someone stole all my credit cards but I won't bereporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did. * We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops. * My wife and I went back to the hotel where we spent our wedding night; Only this time I stayed in the bathroom and cried. My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea . She was at the beauty shop for two hours. That was only for the estimate. She got a mudpack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off. * The Doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill so the doctor gave him another six months. * The Doctor called Mrs. Cohen saying, "Mrs. Cohen, your check came back. " Mrs. Cohen answered, "So did my arthritis!" * Doctor: "You'll live to be 60!" Patient: "I am 60!" Doctor: "See! What did I tell you?" * Patient: "I have a ringing in my ears." Doctor: "Don't answer!" * A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says, "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started." * Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it. The Harvard School of Medicine did a study of why Jewish women like Chinese food so much. The study revealed that this is due to the fact that Won Ton spelled backward is Not Now . There is a big controversy on the Jewish view of when life begins. In Jewish tradition, the fetus is not considered viable until it graduates from medical school. Q: Why don't Jewish mothers drink? A: Alcohol interferes with their suffering. Q: Why do Jewish mothers make great parole officers? A: They never let anyone finish a sentence! A man called his mother in Florida , "Mom, how are you?" "Not too good," said the mother. "I've been very weak." The son said, "Why are you so weak?" She said, "Because I haven't eaten in 38 days." The son said, "That's terrible. Why haven't you eaten in 38 days?" The mother answered, "Because I didn't want my mouth to be filled with food if you should call." A Jewish boy comes home from school and tells his mother he has a part in the play. She asks, "What part is it?" The boy says, "I play the part of the Jewish husband." "The mother scowls and says, "Go back and tell the teacher you want a speaking part." Q: How many Jewish mothers does it take to change a light bulb? A: (Sigh) "Don't bother. I'll sit in the dark. I don't want to be a nuisance to anybody." Short summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us. We won. Let's eat. Did you hear about the bum who walked up to a Jewish mother on the street and said, "Lady, I haven't eaten in three days." "Force yourself," she replied. Q: What's the difference between a Rottweiler and a Jewish mother? A: Eventually, the Rottweiler will let go. Q: Why are Jewish men circumcised? A: Because Jewish women don't like anything that isn't 20% off. Memories of the good ole days .
It occurs to me that the reason the Gentiles found that funny is because the humor reinforces every Jewish stereotype, in part justifying their prejudice while the fact Jewish people laugh means it's basically true. Unfortunately humorless Germans still wanted to kill them.
The humor above transcends, Jewishness. Don't it? Pre Hitler, they were successful in Deutschland. Face it. Is Comedy Channel's "The Daily Show" as good now, without the Jew, Jon Stewart ?
My cable was disconnected so I haven't seen the Daily Show since about February 2015. Of course it's not as good now. They hired a man from South Africa with no orientation to anything about American sensibilities. Stewart no doubt insisted on the next host being much worse than himself under the best of circumstances. When I did watch the show, his orientation was used well. He made fun of Jewish people in a way that seems true based on the handful of Jews I've met, including the few who thought briefly I was Jewish. I have no hostility towards any ethnic group based on the eccentricities of their culture. Still how many white southerners could be successful in Brooklyn with those jokes, even if the ethnic identifiers were removed? The Daily Show itself suffered by being so heavily centred in the liberal, New York area, drug-using, prostitution endorsing, Democrat-chauvinist ideology that it could not function without that. In the process they've endorsed the liberal elitist outlook on southerners, Conservatives, Republicans, gun owners and white Gentiles. These can be just as bitter as anti-black or jewish humor, but the evil people who tried to kill, exploit and demean those groups have created a no-touch bubble that inhibits those of other categories. We need a southern version of the Daily Show, freely giving public humiliation to those who make conservatives, evangelicals and dumb people while freely attacking the ignorant liberals too. By the way, the OP praised the lack of foul language, but there was a bleep in every Jon Stewart episode I can recall. A few of those persons listed were funny-looking and used that to achieve success. Besides my only purpose in the first post was that if a Jewish man freely admits several things about his own race are stupid, bigots who laugh can easily proceed to "Let's get rid of them." By the way I want to create that Redneck daily Show. Can you produce it? S
Conservative humor has been a failure. What they call "funny" is a sledge hammer. Preaching to the choir. Even SNL alum Dennis Miller. Not thought provoking. Unfortunately, since SNL writers have been "drug free" the Left's humor suffers similarly from the grand days of the late '70's. The trick to creating a good, Right Wing advocating humor program is some qualified, druggie, right wing writers. And I mean beyond "moonshine". Moi r > g View attachment 43308 Across an immense, unguarded, ethereal border, Canadians, cool and unsympathetic, regard our America with envious eyes and slowly and surely draw their plans against us.
By definition the only real right wingers on drugs would be Libertarian types and they're not funny. SNL was written by druggies for druggies. I was 14 when that came on and understood little past the opening and Weekend Update. I tried to watch Fridays, but that show made no secret it was about drugs and couldn't hold the more mature Friday night audience. Dennis Miller was not funny as a liberal either. He's too smart for comedy and felt the need to show off with obscure references. The show I propose would be hosted by Cole, the rapper from Nashville, assisted by his cousin Brad (who bursts into song suddenly whenever someone says 2 consecutive words from a song he knows). Also appearing for legal commentary is Brad's older brother Ford, a judge who bursts into Shakespeare when he hears something that triggers the thought. With those 2 present the most boring interview might explode into something wild at any moment. When a political debate was needed the northern perspective would be delivered by Phillip the Boston intellectual. He explains things mostly through photo essays and would have preceded each primary with a highly biased psychological history of the states voting, accompanied by a prediction of the outcome. He writes country songs. International politics will be presented by Phillip's cousin Rupert, a stuffy Englishman with no interest in America except for putdown lines and all the traditional English prejudices against any other country that requires mention. To make it more interesting Brad often will try to seduce female guests. Anyone promoting a film would get presented with an over/under mark for the film's box office success and must return and do something humiliating if it fails to reach the goal. People from low in the cast of struggling tv shows will join Cole in a bad rap song explaining the show. Anyone promoting a book will be interviewed as if it were a jury trial with Ford presiding and rendering a verdict on its merits.
On my Tumblr blog those characters are doing some of those things through a series of tv and radio interviews now at chapter 630. Phillip has been ill since Trump joined the race and was in a coma 5 weeks,
If you think all of the ones you listed never used a swear word you must never have seen Buddy Hackett live. OTOH we are talking about the clown princes here. Profanity would have seriously weakened Rickles material and many of the others as well. Don Rickles and Rodney Dangerfield were the greatest stand ups that ever lived after Johnny Carson and Carson wouldn't last a week in NYC, never mind Vegas The only people that ever thought Jerry Lewis was funny were Jerry Lewis and the entire French nation, go figure. The French did that with Poe too, keeping him popular until the Americans caught up, hey, didja ever notice that a lot of Lewis movies might be actually humorous as video games? (me neither but maybe?)
Jerry Lewis himself understood he was not that good but the French appreciate the director above the actor and since his films of the 1960s were entirely his creation (and most of the humor was slapstick which did not depend on spoken words) they were content that on a minute by minute average he got a grade of 70% over the course of a film. I don't think even the French loved Hook, Line and Sinker. In his films with Dean Martin he played young and naive and still looked the part. You can't getaway with that at age 40. That's killing Adam Sandler and others now. He never became the all-around actor he needed to be. Also I actually saw some of his standup routines and they were bad. My problem with the OP is the hint that he thinks there's something genetic about it. I only pointed out that when funny Jews pointed out Jews were funny and Jews laughed it told those who hated them for being funny that even Jews knew they were funny. Blacks of our day have the same problem and of course they think they need to swear too. That hurts everyone.
Scene: Lower East Side of Manhattan two old Jews who have not spoken in a while happen to meet each other one says to the other, "Schlomo, how's da wife?" Schlomo shrugs and replies, "oy, bettuh den nothin' "
Did you hear this one...? "Ever notice how much a steeple looks just like a giant dunce cap?" Bill Maher?
