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Title: Who is your favorite old time Jewish comedian?
Post by: schrodinger's cat on December 06, 2008, 10:54:00 PM
Jack Benny
Milton Berle
Mel Brooks
Lenny Bruce
George Burns
Eddie Cantor 
Sid Caesar
Billy Crystal
Rodney Dangerfield
Buddy Hackett
Moe, Shemp & Curly Howard, the Three Stooges
Al Jolson
Alan King
Tom Lehrer
Jerry Lewis
The Marx Brothers
Jackie Mason
Don Rickles
Jerry Seinfeld
Phil Silvers
Ben Stein
Gene Wilder
Henny Youngman

or Other
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Post by: zachor_ve_kavod on December 06, 2008, 11:07:55 PM
Groucho Marx.  I use some of his lines with my students and they love it. 

I explain something to them.  Then I ask "Do you follow me?"  They will say "yes"...So I say, "Well stop following me or I'll have you arrested."  That always kills them.
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Post by: MasterWolf1 on December 06, 2008, 11:09:22 PM
Rodney Dangerfield and I like what Jackie Mason has to say
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Post by: Xoce on December 06, 2008, 11:15:55 PM
Jackie Mason
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Post by: P J C on December 06, 2008, 11:17:11 PM
By far Jackie Mason.
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Post by: MasterWolf1 on December 06, 2008, 11:18:02 PM
And I love the 3 stooges
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Post by: schrodinger's cat on December 06, 2008, 11:19:35 PM
By far Jackie Mason.

Haha yes he is great. 
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Post by: דוד בן זאב אריה on December 06, 2008, 11:27:35 PM
Jackie Mason
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Post by: NRAJ on December 06, 2008, 11:28:46 PM
Jackie Mason of course!
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Post by: nopeaceforland on December 06, 2008, 11:29:32 PM
Andrew Dice Clay
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Post by: muman613 on December 07, 2008, 12:48:09 AM
Jackie Mason.... Nothing like that schtik

Mel Brooks .... Funny stuff!
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Post by: zachor_ve_kavod on December 07, 2008, 03:14:13 AM
 Woody Allen.

Just kidding. 


:yuck:
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Post by: AsheDina on December 07, 2008, 07:32:42 AM
Zachor lol   

  I liked Gene Wilder in The Frisco Kid, but Groucho Marx was HYSTERICAL- Alan Alda the anti-American schmuck use to copy Groucho.
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Post by: Roadwarrior on December 07, 2008, 09:10:02 AM
Andrew Dice Clay

Jackie Mason ...but special mention for Dice
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Post by: Rubystars on December 07, 2008, 09:15:21 AM
I like Ben Stein, his voice alone is quite funny  :laugh:

I don't know anything about his politics.
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Post by: Roadwarrior on December 07, 2008, 09:42:14 AM
I like Ben Stein, his voice alone is quite funny  :laugh:

I don't know anything about his politics.

Hes a frequent conservative talk show guest ...I think on Fox News.

He worked for Nixon and his father was the major player
on Nixon's economic team.
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Post by: Debbie Shafer on December 07, 2008, 12:52:51 PM
Boy this is a tough one. They are all so good!  My favorite is Jerry Lewis, I have bought several of his movies, Who's Minding the Store, and The Nutty Professor.  They are absolutely the best.

Lewis plays Norman a store clerk at Tuttle's Department store, and meets with one catastrophe after another, especially where he demonstrates vaccum cleaners, and sucks a lady's poodle, and her hairpiece and everything else from the store into the sweeper which is so full of air and objects it is floating on the ceiling.  His love interest is Jill St. John.  Great show.

I also love Don Rickles, Rodney Dangerfield, Jackie Mason, Ben Stein, and the Marx Brothers, especially Harpo, who was always tooting his horn!  Great times to Rember!
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Post by: Masha on December 07, 2008, 01:23:30 PM
I didn't know George Burns was Jewish. I like Larry David (Curb your Enthusiasm). I think he is very funny. :laugh:
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Post by: nopeaceforland on December 07, 2008, 02:08:17 PM
What about Lewis Black? He's great too! :)
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Post by: Shamgar on December 07, 2008, 02:16:26 PM
Charlie Chan 

(http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm180/2graphic4you/chagallery07.jpg)
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Post by: דוד בן זאב אריה on December 07, 2008, 04:04:17 PM
Andrew Dice Clay

The Dice Man

ayyyyyyyyy
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Post by: דוד בן זאב אריה on December 07, 2008, 04:04:38 PM
What about Lewis Black? He's great too! :)

He is anti religous
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Post by: Americanhero1 on December 07, 2008, 04:30:52 PM
I like Lewis Black
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Post by: Abben on December 07, 2008, 04:39:20 PM
I like jerry seinfeld tv show. but he is prolly a stanuch leftist
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Post by: nopeaceforland on December 07, 2008, 04:51:25 PM
What about Lewis Black? He's great too! :)

He is anti religous

With all due respect, a lot of the people on the fore mentioned list didn't really care about being Jewish either. ie. Mel Brooks wants to convert to Christianity because he wants to be buried with his wife. George Burns married Gracie Allen, a non-Jew. 2 out of 3 of the original 3 stooges married non-Jewish women. etc... This is just out of fun.
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Post by: schrodinger's cat on December 07, 2008, 05:02:12 PM
I like jerry seinfeld tv show. but he is prolly a stanuch leftist

He supported Bush In 2000 but gave money to Hitlery this election
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Post by: schrodinger's cat on December 07, 2008, 05:03:30 PM
I like Lewis Black

I think he is very talented as a comedian however he makes fun of religious Jews and Christians.
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Post by: Sparky on December 07, 2008, 05:05:00 PM
I like Ben Stein, his voice alone is quite funny  :laugh:

I don't know anything about his politics.

Ben Stein's politics are conservative.  Is the question "Who is your favorite old time Jewish comedian?" supposed to be based on their comedy or their politics?  Because the answers won't necessarily be the same.

Jerry Seinfeld an "old time Jewish comedian"?  I don't think so.
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Post by: schrodinger's cat on December 07, 2008, 05:09:10 PM
I like Ben Stein, his voice alone is quite funny  :laugh:

I don't know anything about his politics.

Ben Stein's politics are conservative.  Is the question "Who is your favorite old time Jewish comedian?" supposed to be based on their comedy or their politics?  Because the answers won't necessarily be the same.

Jerry Seinfeld an "old time Jewish comedian"?  I don't think so.

It should be based on the comedy not politics.

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Post by: t_h_j on December 07, 2008, 11:01:34 PM
Don Rickles