Comedian Modi Rosenfeld is Interviewed on Israeli TV and Tells His Favorite Jewish Joke

Modi Rosenfeld is one of our favorite Jewish comedians. We've been following his career and shtick ever since we started Jewish Humor Central in 2009. Whether it's his standup comedy or clever skits and short films, he always leaves us laughing.

Modi is making waves in the New York stand-up scene, embracing and making light of his Israeli background, and sharing his Jewish humor on social media. Last month he was interviewed on Israeli TV. He talked about his background, growing up in Long Island, and how he relates to different audiences.

He also told one of his favorite Jewish jokes.

Enjoy!

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A Joke to Start the Day - "Adam Gets His Wish"

It's another Monday and time for another Joke to Start the Week. This week we're posting another joke from the prolific Dr. Jay Orlikoff, a retired dentist from Centereach, New York, a community on Long Island in Suffolk County.

After a distinguished and meritorious dental career, he is shifting his focus to telling and posting jokes on YouTube. We were fortunate to find some of his jokes and are sharing one of the family-friendly ones with you today. 

Here's the setup: Very soon after his creation Adam was walking around Eden. He looked up into the trees and saw two birds billing and cooing. And then...

Enjoy!

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A Joke to Start the Week - Rainy Night Errand

It's another Monday and time for another Joke to Start the Week. Today's jokester is Mickey Greenblatt.

Marshal (Mickey) Greenblatt received degrees from Columbia (BA and BS in Flight Sciences), a DC from Von Karman Institute (1963) and his PhD from Princeton in Aerospace Sciences. He worked as a researcher for NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory. 

With four other scientists, he founded Fusion Systems Corporation, which invented microwave-powered UV lamps for drying coatings. He founded and served on the boards of technology companies and is active in volunteer work. He served on the executive committee of the Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington for many years.

Mickey also loves Jewish jokes and sent us this one to share with you. It's an oldie but goodie. Here's the setup: It was a terrible rainy, cold, windy night. The streets were deserted. The baker was trying to close his store when in walked a little old man. And then...

Enjoy!

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A Joke to Start the Week - "Marital Communication"

Bob Alper is an ordained Reform rabbi from Vermont who served congregations for fourteen years and holds a doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary.

But he's also a stand-up comedian with a twenty-seven year comedy career.

He presents wonderfully unique material in a way that's intelligent, sophisticated, and 100% clean

Since 2010 we have posted 24 video clips of his stand-up routines.

Now Bob has launched a new series of daily Quick Laughs that you can subscribe to. 

Here's the setup for one of his latest laughs: A psychotherapist was working with a couple on communication in their marriage. At a certain point she asked the wife "How do you express that you want to make love?" And the woman said....

Enjoy!

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A Joke to Start the Week - "Dry Cleaning a Tallit"

 

The rabbis and cantors of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles have been adding a series of jokes to the videos on their website over the last few weeks. We're sure that their members join us in appreciating this welcome opportunity to share some laughs in the midst of the coronavirus stay-at-home world that most of us are experiencing.

We have a few lined up to share with you on the next few Monday mornings as our Joke to Start the Week.

One of America’s most highly respected congregations, Wilshire Boulevard Temple has been serving the Los Angeles Jewish community since its founding in 1862 as Congregation B’nai B'rith, the city’s first synagogue. Today, Wilshire Boulevard Temple carries out the mission through a variety of ways, as a center for Jewish spirituality and celebration, a place for lifelong learning and friendship and home to an engaged congregation where every person can make a difference.

Today Rabbi Beau Shapiro tells a joke about the cost of dry cleaning a tallit. 

Here's the setup: Abe spills a little bit of the kiddush wine on his tallit after the Shabbat morning service. He takes it to his dry cleaner, and he asks the dry cleaner "How much to get the stain out?" And then...

Enjoy!

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A Joke to Start the Week - "The Stolen Camel"

Another Monday, another Joke to Start the Week. This week we're bringing you another joke from California, where Chabad of Downtown San Diego had a comedy night earlier this year.

It attracted joke tellers including Esther Richler, whose joke we're featuring this week.

Here's the setup:  Hymie Goldfarb's lifelong dream was to own a camel. So he retired and moved to Florida. He's fulfilling his dream and he's buying a camel. And every day he goes parading up and down Collins Avenue. And then...

Enjoy! 

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A Joke to Start the Week - "Called up to the Torah"

Last week, our joke to start the week came from a Jews Telling Jokes night earlier this year at Chabad of San Diego. Today we're sharing another joke from that event told by Rabbi Zalman Carlebach, spiritual leader of the shul. 

Rabbi Carlebach was born in Johannesburg and went to Torah Academy. He studied in Morristown, Leeds, England, and Pretoria where he received his Rabbinical Degree. As a student Rabbi, he traveled from rural Australia to Kathmandu, Nepal to share the beauty of Torah with others.

Somewhere along the line he learned to tell jokes. Here's the setup for this one:  In shul, you get called up to the Torah to get honored. One guy who was going through quite tremendous financial troubles was asked by the gabbai to come up to the Torah. And then...

Enjoy!

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Comedy Showcase: Orthodox Comic Eli Lebowicz at Standup NY

We last posted a stand-up comedy routine by Eli Lebowicz in 2012, when he was a senior at Yeshiva University. Since then, Eli has been performing at comedy clubs in New York City, college campuses along the East Coast, synagogue dinners, Passover programs, and Jewish events where there's food.

Eli's comedy is becoming popular with audiences that are looking for funny but clean humor, a combination that's becoming harder to find these days. He will be performing this Saturday night, February 2, at a Chabad of Orange County Comedy Night in Goshen, New York.

Here's Eli performing recently for a Jewish audience at the Stand Up NY Comedy Club. Enjoy!

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How "Old Jews Telling Jokes" Got Started

Old Jews Telling Jokes has been around since 2008, first as a web site, then as a CD, book, DVD, and an off-Broadway show that has been traveling all around the USA.

It was the creation of Sam Hoffman and Eric Spiegelman, who got the idea from listening to their parents telling jokes with their friends in central New Jersey.

In this NJTV News interview, Hoffman tells the story of how his idea blossomed into a source of laughter for so many people. 

Enjoy!

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JTA's Andrew Silow-Carroll Analyzes the Jewish "He Had a Hat" Joke

There's more to many Jewish jokes than meets the eye. Andrew Silow-Carroll, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has started a series of short YouTube videos in which he walks you through a classic Jewish joke and explains what it's all about.

In the last two months we shared three videos in which Andrew analyzed some classic Jewish jokes. Here's another one of his analyses, this one about the Jewish grandmother who takes her grandson to the beach and has an encounter with God.

We'll bring you more of these analyses of classic Jewish jokes from time to time. We hope there will be more of them soon.

Enjoy!

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The White Stuff: JTA's Andrew Silow-Carroll Analyzes a Woody Allen Joke

There's more to many Jewish jokes than meets the eye. Andrew Silow-Carroll, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has started a series of short YouTube videos in which he walks you through a classic Jewish joke and explains what it's all about.

A few weeks ago we shared a video in which Andrew analyzed the jokes (actually stories) about the Wise Men of Chelm and another one about the Jewish woman who treks to India to visit a guru on a mountaintop. 

Today we're sharing another of Andy's analyses, this one of a sequence from Woody Allen's movie Hannah and Her Sisters.

We'll bring you more of these analyses of classic Jewish jokes from time to time. We hope there will be more of them soon.

Enjoy!

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Rabbi Joseph Telushkin Tells the Fifty Best Jewish Jokes at Chautauqua

Last Thursday Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, author of Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews, delivered a 45 minute speech at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York on The Fifty Best Jewish Jokes and What They Say about the Human Condition.  

As part of Chautauqua's Week Six, “The Spirituality of Humor,” Telushkin connected humor in Judaism to society at large.

The Chautauqua Institution is a non-profit education center and summer resort for adults & youth located on 750 acres in Chautauqua, New York, about an hour from Buffalo. It offers programs in the arts, education, religion and music. 

We don't usually post such long videos, but we think this one is worth your time. If you don't have 45 minutes to spend on it now, we suggest that you take it in 10 minute bites over the course of a few days. At the end of the lecture, Telushkin takes questions from the audience, whose members used the opportunity to tell some of their favorite jokes.

We watched the whole lecture and enjoyed it thoroughly. We didn't count the jokes, but Telushkin easily wove many old favorites into his talk.

Enjoy! 

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Dry Bones Cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen Tells Two Nixon Jokes

Yesterday we told you about Yaakov Kirschen's new series of coloring books including Jewish curses illustrated with the same humor he uses for his daily Dry Bones cartoons in The Jerusalem Post.

But Kirschen also likes to tell jokes in public. Here are a couple of jokes that he told recently relating to his personal experience on leaving the United States and making aliyah to Israel. His move came during the Nixon presidency so he calls them Nixon jokes, but they could apply just as well today.

Enjoy!

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Children Tell Old Jewish Jokes in Promo Video for Joke Collection

William Novak, the co-creator of the classic Big Book of Jewish Humor, has just written a new book called Die Laughing: Killer Jokes for Newly Old Folks. It's chock full of jokes about growing older that makes fun of memory loss, marriages, medicine, sex, the afterlife, and much more.

They're not explicitly Jewish, but like most jokes told by old Jews, they clearly have a Jewish inflection.

You won't find many new jokes here, as most of them have been retold for generations and make up the majority of jokes circulating in the Old Jews Telling Jokes web posts, book, CD, DVD, and off-Broadway shows. But Novak has aggregated the 290 pages of jokes into nine categories and made them convenient to access and retell. 

To promote the book, Simon and Schuster made a video featuring four young joke tellers to read seven of the jokes out loud. We're sharing it with you today. It's a quick way to start your day with seven laughs.

Enjoy!

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Robert De Niro Tells Standup Jokes to Promote Catskills

Actor Robert De Niro has a home in New York's Catskill Mountains, and last month he joined New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in promoting tourism in the region that gave birth to standup comedy.

As Jon Campbell wrote for the Gannett Newspapers,

The actor used his time to launch into a Borscht Belt-era comedy routine, delivering a series of one-liners in tribute to comedians like Rodney Dangerfield and Joan Rivers who used to headline lavish Catskill resorts that are now largely out of business.

"OK," De Niro said as he took the podium. "So a man goes to a psychiatrist. The doctor says, 'You're crazy.' The man says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says, 'OK, you're ugly, too.'"

De Niro, who has previously lent his voice to a series of New York tourism advertisements, spoke fondly of the Catskills, calling it his "unspoiled paradise."

In a few minutes, De Niro retold 11 jokes that have been told by most of the famous Jewish comedians. We're sure you've heard them all, but it's always good to hear them again.

Enjoy!

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A Joke to Start the Week - "Texas Baby"

It's the first Monday in August, and we're just back from a 10 day comedy tour in Montreal and the Berkshires. 

Presenting a series of five Jewish humor programs at the Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Adult Vacation Center, we were lucky to encounter Bob Epstein, an 88-year-old retired Assistant Principal in the New York City School System.

At Berkshire Hills Bob serves as recreation specialist, and that includes joke telling sessions with the seniors who come to the mountains for a summer vacation. We asked Bob to share a few jokes with us and we'll be sharing them with you today and in the coming weeks.

Here's the setup: A Texan walks into a bar, and then...

Enjoy!

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The Great Jewish Comedians: Phil Foster Tells the Funniest Joke He Ever Heard

Phil Foster (1913-1985)was born in Brooklyn, New York as Fivel Feldman. He took his stage name's surname from Foster Avenue in Brooklyn. 

He had his first taste of performing when he was a child, when he and his pals began singing and dancing in front of movie theatres. Then he began appearing in amateur shows, competing for prizes. With him on occasion was another beginner named Jackie Gleason.

At the height of the Great Depression, he started in the dramatic field, playing in halls, back rooms and wherever possible during a period when theatres weren't available. "We did all sorts of plays, including all of Clifford Odets' early works — for $28 to $35 a week, living three in a room eating — if there was any food around," he recalled.

Foster made his debut as a night club comic in Chicago in the late 1930s when he was pushed out on the floor suddenly to fill in for a stand-up comic. "I just got up and talked," he says. "I didn't know you were supposed to have an act. But I was offered the job at $125 a week."

He always intended to go back to acting, but, staying with the money, he rapidly made a reputation in night clubs and found himself in constant demand from New York to Birmingham to Seattle.

During World War II, Foster served in the United States Army. Upon his discharge, he returned to New York and become a variety show favorite with an act comprising stories based on his curious childhood in Brooklyn.

During the 1950s Foster made several comedy short subjects for Universal-International as "Brooklyn's Ambassador to the World". Because of his popularity he was chosen by George Pal to be one of the military space crewman on a trip to Mars in Conquest of Space.

It was Garry Marshall, an old friend whom he helped get started as a comedy writer for Joey Bishop and other entertainers, who lured him again to Hollywood, first to appear in The Odd Couple and then to co-star in Laverne & Shirley.

Here's Phil Foster telling the funniest joke he ever heard.

Enjoy!


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A Joke to Start the Week - "A Good Deal"

Another Monday, another joke to start the week. Today we're bringing back Mel Bleemer, the retired CPA who was our joke teller two weeks ago.

Here's the setup for today's joke: A fella is walking down the street one day, and all of a sudden he hears a voice, and then...

Enjoy!

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A Midweek Joke From Rabbi Bob Alper - "Air Conditioning"

Rabbi Bob Alper's standup sets have made frequent appearances on Jewish Humor Central.
 
We've been watching his funny DVD and just can't resist sharing some of his jokes with you, especially since he gave us permission to spread the joy that his humor brings to live audiences and to viewers of the DVD.
 
The DVD contains his 50 minute standup set and a collection of jokes that we're just starting to tap into. Here's one that we call "Air Conditioning."
 
Enjoy!
 
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Comedian Freddie Roman Headlines Finals of The Jewish Week's "Funniest Jewish Comic" Contest

For the past 17 years The Jewish Week, New York's foremost weekly with all the Jewish news that's fit to print, has been sponsoring a contest to find the funniest Jewish comedian.

We attended the finals last month and have video footage of some of the contestants that we'll bring to you in the next few weeks.

The only criteria that we're aware of is that each contestant be both funny and Jewish. The contest, held this year at the Broadway Comedy Club in Manhattan, is produced by comedian and comedy teacher Geoff Kole.

The contest preliminaries and the final contest were held on consecutive Sundays during the month of June. Before the first attendees walked onto the stage, Freddie Roman, the veteran Catskills comic, took the microphone to introduce the contesants.

Freddie told a few old Catskills jokes, including one that he says is his favorite story in the whole world.

Enjoy!

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