Members Latbear4blk Posted May 11, 2020 Members Share Posted May 11, 2020 AdamSmith, Lucky and SoCal 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RockHardNYC Posted May 12, 2020 Members Share Posted May 12, 2020 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. Latbear4blk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lucky Posted May 12, 2020 Members Share Posted May 12, 2020 Interestingly, Jerry Stiller was only 5'5". Latbear4blk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Buddy2 Posted May 16, 2020 Members Share Posted May 16, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 12 hours ago, Buddy2 said: I liked Mr. Stller, but Jewish humor not so much. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 13 hours ago, Buddy2 said: but Jewish humor not so much. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VO74GSl-NSk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Latbear4blk Posted May 17, 2020 Author Members Share Posted May 17, 2020 And now Fred Willard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Buddy2 Posted May 17, 2020 Members Share Posted May 17, 2020 4 hours ago, AdamSmith said: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer I remember Allan Sherman. Very funny. Thank you AdamSmith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Buddy2 Posted May 17, 2020 Members Share Posted May 17, 2020 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. AdamSmith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 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.’ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 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/ Lucky 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Buddy2 Posted May 18, 2020 Members Share Posted May 18, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lookin Posted May 18, 2020 Members Share Posted May 18, 2020 5 hours ago, AdamSmith said: Sherman was among the first generation of Jewish humorists . . . So what am I, chopped liver? Buddy2 and AdamSmith 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Buddy2 Posted May 18, 2020 Members Share Posted May 18, 2020 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. AdamSmith and lookin 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 And of course... lookin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Buddy2 Posted May 19, 2020 Members Share Posted May 19, 2020 56 minutes ago, AdamSmith said: And of course... I never thought Groucho was all that funny, except on his own shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 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!’ Buddy2 and lookin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Buddy2 Posted May 19, 2020 Members Share Posted May 19, 2020 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. AdamSmith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lookin Posted May 19, 2020 Members Share Posted May 19, 2020 2 hours ago, AdamSmith said: And of course... I never fail to glory in his antics terpsichorean. AdamSmith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...