Jewish Humor Central is a daily publication to start your day with news of the Jewish world that's likely to produce a knowing smile and some Yiddishe nachas. It's also a collection of sources of Jewish humor--anything that brings a grin, chuckle, laugh, guffaw, or just a warm feeling to readers.
Our posts include jokes, satire, books, music, films, videos, food, Unbelievable But True, and In the News. Some are new, and some are classics. We post every morning, Sunday through Friday. Enjoy!
Modi Rosenfeld is one of our favorite young comedians and we've posted many of his stand-up comedy routines and skits.
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Modi Rosenfeld moved to New
York City with his family when he was 7. Before entering comedy, he was a
Wall Street international banker. He now goes solely by the name Modi
and is known for creating accents and characters.
He
has made many appearances at the Just for Laughs festival, an annual
summer
event in Montreal and at comedy clubs around the world.
Modi will be appearing this Thursday evening, April 30 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
In this video of his appearance on The Tonight Show earlier this month, Modi's standup routine focuses on getting advice from his fans and generational differences.
Some
of the best standup comedy was on TV shows and comedy specials in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Today we
continue our Sunday Standup series, sharing some of the classic routines
by iconic comedians on
Sunday editions of Jewish Humor Central.
Buddy
Hackett (1924-2003) was one of the funniest comedians ever to perform
on hotel stages in the Catskills. Most people remember him for his jokes
and stories that usually crossed the line into family-unfriendly
territory.
This one is an early appearance by Buddy Hackett in 1980 on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. In their discussion Buddy expounds on his knowledge of snakes, medicine, organic and natural foods, and psychic phenomena.
Some
of the best standup comedy was on TV shows and comedy specials in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Today we
continue our Sunday Standup series, sharing some of the classic routines
by iconic comedians on
Sunday editions of Jewish Humor Central.
David Brenner was born to Jewish parents in 1936 and raised in poor areas of South and West Philadelphia. His father, Louis, was a vaudeville comedian, singer and dancer performing under the stage name
of Lou Murphy, who gave up his career and a film contract in order to
please Brenner's grandfather, a rabbi, who objected to his working on Shabbat.
After making his national television debut in 1971, on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, he became the show's most frequent guest, with 158 appearances. He guest-hosted for Johnny Carson 75 times between 1975 and 1984, placing him fifth on the list of Carson's most frequent guest hosts.
Here's the video clip of Brenner's first appearance on Carson's show on January 8, 1971.
It's hard to believe, but Andy Kaufman has been gone for 41 years. Kaufman, for all the funny characters he portrayed, insisted on being known as a song-and-dance man. According to his Wikipedia biography, Kaufman "was a popular and eccentric American entertainer, actor and performance artist." "Elaborate ruses and pranks were major elements of
his career. His body of work maintains a cult following and he continues
to be respected for his original material, performance style, and
unflinching commitment to character." Kaufman
came to prominence with his "Mighty Mouse" routine on the first
Saturday Night Live show. He portrayed a garage mechanic from an
unidentified European country on the sitcom Taxi, which also
starred Danny DeVito and Jewish actors Judd Hirsch (Alex) and Carol Kane
(Simka) and featured Dr. Joyce Brothers as herself in this episode. The character he played on Taxi,
Latka Gravas, had a Jewish and Eastern European feel to it even though
it was never specific. The dialect, language and rituals were all made
up, but whatever your ethnicity, they made it seem that they captured
some of the flavor of the "old country", whatever it was. Kaufman
was born in New York City and grew up in a middle-class Jewish family
in Great Neck, Long Island. He died at the age of 35 from a rare form of
lung cancer. For years his fans thought he was faking his death as
another elaborate prank. Here
is a video of Kaufman's first appearance on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show in 1977 when he was only 28 years old. Enjoy!
Some
of the best standup comedy was on TV shows and comedy specials in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Today we
continue our Sunday Standup series, sharing some of the classic routines
by iconic comedians on
Sunday editions of Jewish Humor Central.
When Mark Schiff was twelve, his parents took him to a nightclub. There, live
on stage was Rodney Dangerfield doing his act. At that moment, he knew
the path he had to follow.
Mark has headlined in all the major casinos
and clubs across the country and has appeared many times on both The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with David Letterman. He has
had both HBO and Showtime specials and has been the featured act at the
Montreal Comedy Festival.
Since we're now in the 100th year of Jewish Book Month, we'll be sharing information on recently published books on Jewish humor and comedy.
Mark Schiff has written a book about his comedy career called Why Not? Lessons on Comedy, Courage, and Chutzpah. Schiff, a long-time touring partner of Jerry Seinfeld, presents a hilarious account of decades of foolery with comedy and
acting legends and how he honed his mensch skills in all of life’s
arenas.
In the book he tells of how he was invited to appear on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1989. Here is a video clip of that appearance.
Some
of the best standup comedy was on TV shows and comedy specials in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Today we
continue our Sunday Standup series, sharing some of the classic routines
by iconic comedians on
Sunday editions of Jewish Humor Central.
David Steinberg, Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author, was one of the
best-known comics in the United States during the late 1960s and mid-1970s. He appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson more than 130 times (second only to Bob Hope in number of appearances) and served as guest host 12 times, the youngest person to guest-host.
Now 83 years old, David is the son of Yasha Steinberg, a strict, Romanian-born rabbi. He got his start in comedy at the Second City in Chicago, where he did improv for six years. He was known for his funny sermons based on suggestions from the audience.
In this 1968 video clip of his first appearance on Johnny Carson's show, he delivers a sermon based on the lives of Solomon, Job, and Moses. After his sermon, he sat on Carson's couch with Anne Meara and defended his biblical references as coming from a place of respect and warmth.
Raanan Hershberg is a loud, neurotic Jew from Louisville, KY. He has
performed his high-energy, joke-packed comedy on The Tonight Show with
Jimmy Fallon, The Late, Late Show with James Corden, and Comedy Central.
His latest special ‘Jokes from the Underground’ was just included in
the New York Times ‘Best Comedy of 2022’, where critic Jason Zinoman
called it the funniest YouTube Special of the year, and said ‘his
punchy and deliriously funny club comedy made me laugh after second and
third viewings.’ His first special ‘Downhill Ever Since’ is almost at
200K views on YouTube. Raanan performs all over the world and is a
regular at The Comedy Cellar.
In this video clip from The Tonight Show, Raanan rants about sobriety and getting older in America.
In May 1983 (40 years ago) Mel Blanc, the "Man of a Thousand Voices" appeared on the Tonight Show and explained to Johnny Carson how he got started in voicing cartoon characters.
Blanc has been called the first and best voice actor. He made it an art. His
career spanned vaudeville, radio, movies and television starting in
the late 1920s and continuing to this day, 34 years after
his death.
Blanc has been the
voice behind more than 400 animated characters in over three thousand
cartoons. In his 60 year career he has been the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Tweety, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, the Tasmanian Devil, and numerous other characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons.
He later voiced characters for Hanna-Barbera's television cartoons, including Barney Rubble and Dino on The Flintstones, Mr. Spacely on The Jetsons, Secret Squirrel on The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show, the title character of Speed Buggy, and Captain Caveman on Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels and The Flintstone Kids.
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Cathy
Ladman is a 67-year-old American stand-up comedian, television writer,
and actress. She was featured in her own installment of HBO's One Night Stand comedy series, and has been a guest on The Tonight Show on nine occasions. We've featured her stand-up comedy five times previously, and now we found a new video clip of her commentary on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. In this clip she talks
about getting older, going shopping at Costco with her teenage daughter
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Today we're turning the calendar back 38 years to 1985 when Alan King and Johnny Carson talked about their experiences with bad food served in bad restaurants.
The conversation was triggered by King giving Carson a copy of his newly published book, "Is Salami and Eggs Better than Sex?"
Alan King appeared on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show a total of 73
times. He was a frequent guest on the show and often appeared as a guest
host. King was a well-known comedian and actor who was popular in the
1950s and 1960s, and his appearances on the Tonight Show helped to
solidify his status as one of the greats of his time.
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Orny Adams (Adam Jason Orenstein) delivers a powerful, incisive stand-up routine that
vacillates between the relevant and the absurd. Orny attacks what’s
wrong with the world and sometimes even what’s wrong with Orny. He’s
brutally honest, satirical and his performance is ceaselessly
energetic.
We first ran into Orny Adams at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. We previously posted a comedy clip of Orny in one of his
Showtime specials. Orny has been performing on late night TV shows
and other comedy venues, and he's a regular at the Just for Laughs Festival.
Here's
an excerpt from his first appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2007.
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Today we're going back 48 years to 1974, when Mel Blanc, the man of a thousand voices, appeared with Jack Benny on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.
Blanc, the man behind the voices of
Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird and Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam,
and countless other Warner Brothers cartoon characters, has been called
the first and best voice actor.
Blanc was a regular on the NBC Red Network show The Jack Benny Program in various roles, including voicing Benny's Maxwell automobile
(in desperate need of a tune-up), violin teacher Professor LeBlanc,
Polly the Parrot, Benny's pet polar bear Carmichael and the train
announcer.
In this video clip, Benny and Blanc reminisce about their many skits on the program and re-enact some of them to Carson's delight.
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It's another Throwback Thursday and we're turning the calendar back to 1988
when Jackie Mason made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny
Carson.
Jackie held nothing back in that session, cracking Carson up with his staccato delivery and his unique accent.
Topics included his Broadway show, his films and records, why he never got married, soup vs. sex, cars as status symbols, and New York vs. Hollywood.
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In August 1977 comedian and performance artist Andy Kaufman made an appearance on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
After doing impressions in his Foreign Man accent, a masterful Elvis Presley impersonation, and playing a wild song from the Islands of the Caspian Sea on the bongo drums, Kaufman sat for an interview with Carson.
In the interview, he explains the origin of his Elvis character and tells a story of how his Foreign Man character got an autograph from a woman in a massage parlor on 42nd Street in New York.
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In 1983, seven years after Gilda Radner joined Saturday Night Live as a member of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players, she made her first appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
In a funny, wide-ranging interview, Gilda reads a hilarious selection from her book, Roseanne Rosanadanna's Hey! Get Back to Work Book.
She explains how she overcame her shyness by getting lost in the characters that she invented and brought to life in the show.
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Today we're turning back the clock to October 7, 1986.
In one of his many appearances on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, comedian Buddy Hackett comes through with his father's explanation of canine mating on the streets of New York, comments about the status of Soviet Jews in Gorbachev's USSR, and a skillful retelling of one of the oldest and funniest Jewish jokes ever told.
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When it came to wacky comedy, no comedian could come close to Buddy
Hackett. Whether you encountered hm in a nightclub, on television, or in
his hilarious movies, Buddy had the talent to make you roll on the
floor laughing.
One of his favorite haunts was the Johnny Carson
Show, where he made many appearances. There was always a tension between
Buddy and Johnny, with Johnny nervous about how close Buddy's joke
would be to going over the line where clean comedy ended.
In this appearance on the Carson show, Buddy delivered one of his classic jokes, "I'll do anything for $200."
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We
thought that we had run out of Buddy Hackett videos and were pleasantly
surprised to find another batch of Buddy's appearances on the Johnny
Carson Tonight Show. It's rare to find a Hackett video these days,
especially one that's clean.
So go back with us 41 years to 1978 when Buddy made one of his visits to Carson's late night show.
In
this episode, Buddy tells stories about an unusual treatment for severe headache pain and his new vegetarian diet.
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Back in 1977 Comedian Andy Kaufman paid a visit to Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and had the audience laughing all the way through his performance as Elvis Presley and Foreign Man. In a serious interview he revealed the origins of his act and followed with a wild drumming/singing/dancing routine "from the islands of the Caspian Sea." Enjoy! A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS:
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One
of the hallmarks of Rita Rudner's comedy is that it's clean, free from the
vulgarity and shouting that many stand-up comics find necessary. Sure,
there's usually some sexual innuendo
but her delivery is demure, tasteful, full of wry observations, and
very funny.
Rudner
started her career as a dancer, then switched to stand-up comedy about
her dating experiences. She married British producer Martin Bergman
and now they have a daughter. She is fond of Jewish
humor but generally reserves it for when she performs for Jewish
audiences.
For this Throwback Thursday we're going back 32 years to 1986 (gosh, has she been performing that long?) when she made an appearance on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show.
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Just Published: The Kustanowitz Kronikle - 35 Years of Purim Parody
Every Purim for the past 35 years we have published a Purim parody edition of The Kustanowitz Kronikle, covering virtually every aspect of Jewish life, and including parodies of hundreds of popular movies. This year we decided to retire the series and capture all the fun in a book that's just been published and is available at Amazon.com. It has every Purim issue of The Kustanowitz Kronikle from 1988 through 2022 in a full-color, full-size paperback book with hilarious headline stories and parody movie picks. Here are a few examples: TRUMP, NETANYAHU SWAP ROLES, COUNTRIES; NEW TALMUD VOLUME "VOTIN" FOUND IN IRAQ; JOINS "FRESSIN", "NAPPIN", TANTZEN","PATCHEN"; "JUDAICARE" PROGRAM PLANNED TO ENSURE THAT ALL JEWS HAVE SYNAGOGUE MEMBERSHIP; RABBIS CREATE TALMUD AMERICANI; NEW LAWS EXTEND HALACHA TO THANKSGIVING AND JULY 4; JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS WORLDWIDE UNITE TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING; FOCUS ON REDUCING HOT AIR; RABBIS TO REQUIRE SHECHITA FOR MANY FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
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"Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places" is now available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle editions
This book presents 150 anecdotes and associated video clips that reveal the myriad ways that Jewish culture, religion, humor, music, song, and dance have found expression in parts of the world that, at first glance, might not seem supportive of Jewish Life. It includes 50 videos of Hava Nagila being performed from Texas to Thailand, from India to Iran, and from Buenos Aires to British Columbia. Also highlighted are 34 international versions of Hevenu Shalom Aleichem, Adon Olam, Abanibi, and Tumbalalaika. Whether you’re reading the print version and typing in the video URLs or reading the e-book version and clicking on the links, you’ll have access to 150 video clips totaling more than 10 hours of video. Enjoy!
"Israel is a Funny Country" is now available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle editions
This book explores the multifaceted nature of humor in Israel, some of which is intentional and some of which is unintentional. Either way, the quirks of Israeli life contribute to making that life interesting and fulfilling. In the pages of this volume, we take a look at humorous slices of Israeli life, Israeli comedy, satire and parody, funny TV commercials, unusual stories about food, surprising rabbinic bans on daily activities, simchas as they can only be celebrated in Israel, and endearing aspects of Israeli culture. There are more than 120 anecdotes and links to video clips totaling more than six hours of video. We hope that these anecdotes and video clips give you a new and different insight into life in Israel, and encourage you to join in the fun by planning a visit to the land flowing with milk and honey.
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He has presented more than 100 programs in South Florida and the Northeast on topics that include the great comedians and entertainers of the 20th century, funniest moments in film and television, flash mobs around the world, and composers and lyricists of the Great American Songbook.
He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the City University of New York and taught computer science courses at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Association of Yiddish Clubs.
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