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!
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
and the Erie Canal song she learned in the third grade. Enjoy! A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS:
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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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It's another Throwback Thursday and today we're turning the clock back 38 years to 1980 for another appearance by Buddy Hackett on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.
In this episode Buddy talks with Johnny about snakes, nutrition, medicine, psychics, seances, and recalls an episode when his recently deceased mother-in-law has a brief exchange in Yiddish with her brother. Enjoy! A SPECIAL NOTE FOR
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Last November on an episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, comedian Jerry Seinfeld and host Fallon engaged in a stand-up comedy battle, each one taking a turn at telling a short Seinfeld stand-up routine to see which of the two was the better Seinfeld. The joke topics included ''Wait Up", "Star Wars", "Pizza Hut", "Rubber Dividers", and "Birthday Clown." Enjoy! A
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It's another Throwback Thursday and we're taking you back 39 years to 1979 when Rodney Dangerfield made one of his appearances on the Johnny Carson show.
In this ten minute episode he delivers a few minutes of standup comedy and shares lots of laughs with Carson. Enjoy! A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS:
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Comedian Alan King was a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight show. As a guest he didn't do formal stand-up comedy, but their conversations often included jokes, gags, and funny stories. In this appearance from 1982 (that's 36 years ago, folks) Alan revealed some family facts, including his growing up in an Orthodox family, holding on to the basic laws of kashrut, having a grandfather who was a rabbi who lived to 104, and reflections on doctors and the medical profession (3 of his brothers were doctors.) Enjoy!
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It's another Throwback Thursday, and today we're revving up the old time machine and driving it back to 1998 when Jeffrey Ross appeared at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. Jeff
Ross (born Jeffrey Ross Lipschultz to a Jewish family in Springfield,
New Jersey) is a stand-up comedian, actor, and author. His skill in
doing high-profile celebrity roasts and his appearances in Comedy
Central's Roasts,
have led him to be dubbed "The Roastmaster General." He has appeared in
various film, television, and cartoon projects. He has made appearances
at events for U.S. soldiers and directed a documentary film covering his experiences touring U.S. bases in Iraq.
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In 1997 Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks published a book and CD titled The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000. The 2000 Year Old Man skit was originally created in 1961 at Brooks' beachfront house in Fire Island. Brooks had just undergone surgery for gout.
Because of his post-surgical discomfort, Brooks quipped, "I feel like a
2000-year-old man," which led Reiner to begin questioning him about
what it's like to be a 2000-year-old man and to describe history as
Brooks saw it.
To promote the book and CD, the duo made an appearance on Jay Leno's Tonight Show. They performed an updated version of the skit and then went on to explain how they got the famous campfire flatulence scene in Blazing Saddles past the censors.
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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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A long-term devotee of Jewish humor, Al Kustanowitz has been collecting and sharing it even before there was an internet. In 2009, after a 36-year career at IBM managing new technology projects, he founded Jewish Humor Central (jewishhumorcentral.com. Through the blog he brings a daily dose of fun and positive energy to readers who would otherwise start the day reading news that is often drab, dreary, and depressing (subscribing is free). He has published 12 books on humor based on his more than 4,000 blog postings, each of which includes a video clip and his commentary.
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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