Adios Jerry Stiller

[Latbear4blk]

 

[RockHardNYC]

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.

[Lucky]

Interestingly, Jerry Stiller was only 5'5".

[Buddy2]

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. 

[AdamSmith]

12 hours ago, Buddy2 said:

I liked Mr. Stller, but Jewish humor not so much.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer

[AdamSmith]

13 hours ago, Buddy2 said:

but Jewish humor not so much.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VO74GSl-NSk

[Latbear4blk]

And now Fred Willard.

[Buddy2]

4 hours ago, AdamSmith said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer

I remember Allan Sherman. Very funny. Thank you 

[Buddy2]

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]

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.’

[AdamSmith]

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/

[Buddy2]

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.

[lookin]

5 hours ago, AdamSmith said:

Sherman was among the first generation of Jewish humorists . . .

So what am I, chopped liver?

[Buddy2]

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 of course...

[Buddy2]

56 minutes ago, AdamSmith said:

And of course...

I never thought Groucho was all that funny, except on his own shows.

[AdamSmith]

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]

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.

[lookin]

2 hours ago, AdamSmith said:

And of course...

I never fail to glory in his antics terpsichorean.  

[AdamSmith]

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.