May 12, 20206 yr Active Members Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller always made me laugh. They were always funny, even off camera. Their son, Ben, was a cutie when he was younger.
May 16, 20206 yr Active Members I liked Mr. Stller, but Jewish humor not so much. Perhaps because I saw George Jessel entertain when I was in the Army overseas in 1968. He was angry because only a few soldiers remembered Al Jolson.
May 17, 20206 yr 12 hours ago, Buddy2 said: I liked Mr. Stller, but Jewish humor not so much. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer
May 17, 20206 yr 13 hours ago, Buddy2 said: but Jewish humor not so much. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VO74GSl-NSk
May 17, 20206 yr Active Members 4 hours ago, AdamSmith said: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer I remember Allan Sherman. Very funny. Thank you
May 17, 20206 yr Active Members 2 hours ago, Buddy2 said: I remember Allan Sherman. Very funny. Thank you I remember Dorothy Gish's sister, Lillian, from her appearances on Broadway.
May 18, 20206 yr 20 hours ago, Buddy2 said: I remember Allan Sherman. Very funny. Thank you In line with your opening thought, Sherman was among the first generation of Jewish humorists (a comic songwriter; the rest were short-story or essay writers, mostly for The New Yorker magazine) who found humor in their Jewish cultural backgrounds, and gloried in it, in the funniest ways. And the most, as we say these days, ‘self-affirming.’
May 18, 20206 yr On 5/16/2020 at 5:04 PM, Buddy2 said: I liked Mr. Stller, but Jewish humor not so much. P.S. To requote from a Harold Bloom post somewhere in the Organ thread, ‘There are a billion Muslims on the planet now. There are at least a billion Christians. There are barely ten million self-professed Jews. If Yahweh exists, either He has been doing a very bad job, or something else has gone terribly wrong.’ Timely words for these troublous times. https://radioopensource.org/harold-bloom-jesus-and-yahweh/
May 18, 20206 yr Active Members 21 hours ago, Buddy2 said: I remember Dorothy Gish's sister, Lillian, from her appearances on Broadway. I saw Lillian with Helen Hayes once in 1985. Amazing. Many years of wonderful Broadway and film history. What a magical few minutes.
May 18, 20206 yr Active Members 5 hours ago, AdamSmith said: Sherman was among the first generation of Jewish humorists . . . So what am I, chopped liver?
May 18, 20206 yr Active Members 33 minutes ago, lookin said: So what am I, chopped liver? And the wonderful Lenny Bruce. I played his comedy albums for a very German friend away back in 1976.
May 19, 20206 yr Active Members 56 minutes ago, AdamSmith said: And of course... I never thought Groucho was all that funny, except on his own shows.
May 19, 20206 yr 3 minutes ago, Buddy2 said: I never thought Groucho was all that funny, except on his own shows. I thought some of the movies were pretty good... ’Hail, Freedonia!’
May 19, 20206 yr Active Members When Groucho was a guest panelist on "What's My Line?" he was funny for a while, but it was way, way too much on a show with contestants and a mystery guest.
May 19, 20206 yr Active Members 2 hours ago, AdamSmith said: And of course... I never fail to glory in his antics terpsichorean.
May 20, 20206 yr 11 hours ago, Buddy2 said: When Groucho was a guest panelist on "What's My Line?" he was funny for a while, but it was way, way too much on a show with contestants and a mystery guest. Thinnin’ on it, yes! Funniest, most relaxed & not over-rushed, etc on his own shows. The most himself.
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