"I guess you had to be there." That joke is a layer deeper than it first seems to be. The point is that when the holocaust happened, many Jews felt that God had deserted them, or lost their faith completely. They felt that God was not there.
There is no debate on this. My ex-wife is Jewish and she is really funny, sarcastic and has perfect timing. When we were engaged, I asked her if she wanted me to convert to Judaism. Her reply was, "No, we don't want you."
WHAT THE F does being "Jewish" mean ANYWAY? Am I jewish? Isn't it supposed to be a religion? It's funny that judaism is the only religion that doesn't seem to know it's a religion. Like, aren't you supposed to believe in a single god or something, and that's it, right? 99% of the entertainers I see big media claim are "jewish" I am highly skeptical. Just like ANY meaningless useless worthless unfalsifiable untestable association, you are a member of this assocation if you SAY you are. So, if you SAY you are jewish, then you're jewish. If you say you are not jewish, then you are not jewish. NOBODY HAS ANY POWER OR AUTHORITY TO FORCE YOU TO BE jewish or not jewish. Don't care wtf your breeders chose to classify themselves as: if you say you are jewish then you are. If you say you are not then you are not. Period.
A Jewish kid says to his grandfather: Grandpa I need fifty dollars The grandfather says: Forty dollars! What do you need thirty dollars for? Bruce Solomon
Jewish people and Black People are top notch when it comes to comedy. Also, people who grew up in the struggle make very good comedians regardless of Ethnicity, or Color
mercenary: True. One night I saw a lot of really, awful open mike stand-up comedy. The, a guy stepped up who was both black and fat. I thought, "I bet he's going to be funny." And I was right. Baiscly, the more you've had going against you, the funnier you are going to be. Not always, but often.
pain and strife is worthless when they are animal level.Cats and dogs also suffer but what have the afro americans added to humanity? Nothing but sludge
jjews and blacks - according to hebrew israelites everyone back is "the real ews", which would whiten all Minhag Limba,Minhhag Falasha,Minhaf Abajudaja and Minhag Igbo.However, my family is documented to have been inn Europe since the year 743, in 1930 we had been according to the german government black byy bastardisation, until arround 2010 I was "middle eastern-oriental" and eseciay since BLM I am now white. - I argue we're not funny, but the kind of being described is (if you have sense for abstruse sarcasti humor) is very funny.
I think that certain groups of people who have been persecuted either for their race, religion or nationality created their own humor as a survival technique. Blacks, Jewish, Irish, Italians all have great comics. It reminds me of a joke a comic once said… The Jewish comics make fun of the Jews, The black conics make fun of the Blacks, The Italian comics make fun of the Italians, do you know why there aren’t any white Anglo Saxon Protestant comics? Because there’s nothing funny about them! Of course this joke is just a generalization which comedy is based on.
The truth is everything about them is hilarious but they'll hunt you down and kill you if you make fun of them unlike the rest of us so it tends to be avoided I guess what I'm saying is say have no sense of humour
I was literally just asking myself this question a few hours ago. After all, Fran Dresher has been in the media A LOT at the moment and the Nanny is hilarious!
Fran Dresher is the elected President of The Screen Actors Guild of America (and beyond) a brilliant leader chosen by the members. She’s a talented actor who can play funny. she’s probably funny whenever she wants to be.
You're missing the true author of Eastern European Jewish humor. Before Sholem Aleichem there was a badchan at the shul of R. Boruch of Mezhybuzh: Reb Herschel of Ostropol.
Yes definitely! And also Chasidic master Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (nephew of Boruch of Medzhibuz), his books are full of hilarious witty remarks, plus he emphasized over & over again that to attain “mitzvah gedolah lihiyot b’Simcha tamid” that every day a Jew has to make silly faces & silly voices & utilize words of humor (Sh’tut d’Kedusha) : )
Great analysis. I'd add that Jews place a high value on education, and smart humor is great humor. Also, Jews were historically shut out of a lot of professions, so excelled where they could get jobs or create jobs, finance, writing, entertainment, comedy. The best Jewish jokes are from Jews. All the good Jewish jokes I know are from my uncle Louie.
When I was in Yugoslavia for a winter, I noticed the lack of humor. Then, I remember they might have killed all the funny people. And the scholars.and their best musicians. Along with all their culture, except hate, superstition, conspiracy theories, and passion. Then, there was a rebellion. No more Yugoslavia.
Old time comedians even used Yiddish bad words However, US didn't know them So they got around the censors Don Rickles with schmuck (Family jewels, dickhead)
Regarding what you point out that the tolmod isn't funny we do see some reference that the rabbi were engaging in Homer like דרבה מקמי דפתח להו לרבנן אמר מילתא דבדיחותא ובדחי רבנן Which translates rabh before he started with the students he said a joke and the students were laughing
Can you make Jesus lough after you spend a little bit of time to know him? Proverbs 1:26 KJV - I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 26גַּם־֭אֲנִי בְּאֵידְכֶ֣ם אֶשְׂחָ֑ק אֶ֝לְעַ֗ג בְּבֹ֣א פַחְדְּכֶֽם׃ Much love and blessings.
WHAT THE F does being "Jewish" mean ANYWAY? Am I jewish? Isn't it supposed to be a religion? It's funny that judaism is the only religion that doesn't seem to know it's a religion. Like, aren't you supposed to believe in a single god or something, and that's it, right? 99% of the entertainers I see big media claim are "jewish" I am highly skeptical. Just like ANY meaningless useless worthless unfalsifiable untestable association, you are a member of this assocation if you SAY you are. So, if you SAY you are jewish, then you're jewish. If you say you are not jewish, then you are not jewish. NOBODY HAS ANY POWER OR AUTHORITY TO FORCE YOU TO BE jewish or not jewish. Don't care wtf your breeders chose to classify themselves as: if you say you are jewish then you are. If you say you are not then you are not. Period.
The joke only Jews would get: Two gentile entrepreneurs meet on the street, the first one asks the second one, ‘So how’s business? The second one responds, ‘Great!’
@@alg11297 I think they were relics of their time. If you're referring to the "Road" movies, they were considered quite hip when they came out, with the constant breaking the fourth wall and seeming ad libs and inside jokes. The views of women and other cultures are so out of date now and offensive, but they were just reflecting the common views of most Americans, sadly. While I am partial to Jewish comedy writers (being one myself) I think one has to point out not only geniuses like Richard Pryor and pre-scandal Bill Cosby, but even goyish comedians like George Carlin, Steve Martin, Bob Newhart and Jonathan Winters. And, to be fair, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson (who can also be considered retrograde today but influenced so many comedians) Jay Leno and David Letterman all strived for a certain "Jewishness" in their delivery. It's a lot to pack into a short video, but of course the subject is quite fascinating - in the late fifties and early sixties, when Jewish-ness was considered hip - think Lenny Bruce, Allen Sherman leading into Woody Allen and Mel Brooks. Up until then, most Jewish comedians who wanted to work more than the Catskills changed their names, and became "mainstream." Jewishness really didn't become "hip" again until Seinfeld. Or at least it seemed to me.
Or, compare a Marx brothers comedy to the Jack Benny show. Only, there is a problem - Jack Benny's background was Jewish. Indeed, "Jewish" humor varies widely in form and content.
As is generally the case with Unpacked, this was excellent. However, I would like to point out one point with which I disagree - the Torah and the Talmud have a lot more humor than most of us give them credit for having. Not out-and out "jokes," but very subtle and very funny humorous bits. Yasher Koach (as usual)!
How about the prophet Eliyahu (Elijah) making fun of the pagan prophets of baal praying to their god? I Kings 18:27: "And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened."
Nah. But he did do a lot to push the envelope on what comedian safe permitted to say on stage. He suffered for it, too, getting arrested time after time for saying dirty words on stage. Now, people like Dave Chapel can talk about sexual situations and use obscenities during their acts and face no real consequences. But it was Lenny Bruce who paved the way for it.
the thing is that everyone is Jewish - as it is where religion began. but than other philosophical idea took root ,and some of the people started to believe in them ,while call it "a new religion:
I disagree that our foundational, religious, writings don’t have humor. Sure, it’s not 10 laughs a page. But for documents that are supposed to deal with serious, deep eternal reality type issues, they have more than their fair share of humor. You don’t see too many Supreme Court opinions peppered with jokes. But it’s never surprising to find humor in the pages of the Talmud. I think humor has always been part of the fabric of our lives. It’s always been a part of our strength.
I beg to differ . Have you read the story of purim? The torah is filled with Irony and wittiness. The talmud has jokes all over . This humor is the dark side of things . My rabbis are the funniest people on the planet hands down
Thanks great video overall but NOT true about lack of humor in Talmud (Gemara)….. Talmud is 63 huge books (tractates) and it’s full of the most WITTY humor & the most brilliantly absurd comedic scenarios, of any book in the universe! - that on most days of the daily Daf Yomi of Talmud I literally laugh out loud…. Talmudic humor is in a superb category of its own, as it is after all Divine Humor!
Black people are the funniest in America. Eddie Murphy getting cast on Saturday Night Live in 1984 improved the ratings so much it prevented NBC from wanting to cancel the show and this was during the same time that Chris Rock got hired too.
Gracho Marx was at a hotel with his not jewish wife and their daughter.The child was going into the pool and was told no jews allowed So he said can she ho half way in?😂😂😂😂
The line about "any club that would let me in" wasn't an Allen original; Groucho was ahead. Re: Heine, it's a mistake to say he wasn't a Jew. Judaism's not religion, it's family. You can't negate your status as a brother or son.
Correcting a small mistake Jesus was never a Christian He was from Nazareth - the word Christian in English comes from the word Messiah in English which in Hebrew means anointed with anointing oil. Thus even the products = the messiahs who were murdered in the amphitheater in Rome were actually Jews who called themselves messiahs -
@@YolandaPlayne You should read the New Testament in Matthew Luke and you will see that it is explicitly written that Jesus was a Jew, was circumcised, died as a Jew - that's why Seinfeld is also a Jew, like Jesus every person in the nation is the son of God and like Jesus everyone is precious to God... And finally what to do with all respect to all the antisemites Jesus Marx Lenin and many other great people all of Jewish origin to the chagrin of the antisemites - and what to do the Jews contributed to the world like all the other nations of the world combined! And they are barely 15 million souls, a standard error of a census of the population of China or India - where the population is 1.5 billion souls plus or minus 15 million... And these 15 million Jews contributed to the world as much as the other 8 billion combined!
@@YolandaPlayne We are talking about the fact that the New Testament Bible presents Jesus as a Jew and we did not talk about Seinfeld - Seinfeld is Jewish because his parents are Jewish and they are Jewish because their parents are Jewish and so on and so forth until you reach the first Hebrew Abraham approximately 5000 years ago - thus Seinfeld is Jewish!
I want to ask a question. Can someone who is Turkish and Muslim be Jewish? Or do we always remain Gohim? אני רוצה לשאול שאלה. האם מישהו טורקי ומוסלמי יכול להיות יהודי? או שאנחנו תמיד נשארים גוהים?
Well anyone can convert if they really want to but Judaism doesn't proselytize or persuade conversion. It's only if the person is committed and really wants to
What's totally missing from this video is that it's a description of why *Ashkenazi* Jews (mainly of Eastern European origin) have dominated comedy for the past 100 years or so. There's no discussion whatsoever of Sephardi or Mizrahi Jewish (of Mediterranean, North African, and Middle Eastern origin) humour, if there is any such thing.
@@tagbarzeev8283 On an ultimate level, dating back 2-3 millennia, that's true. But I'm talking about descent from the past number of centuries - in Europe, the entire Mediterranean, and elsewhere.
I think part of the reason for Ashkenazi Jews being so intellectually well endowed is the prolonged inbreeding (because of isolation) combined with constant survival anxiety. It creates statistically more freaks and some of those freaks turn out to be brilliant and are immediately put to use so the group can survive better.
I'm from the Netherlands and i agree. Back in the old days we had incredible funny ones. Sharp as a knife, sarcastic like hell and always making a fool out of themselves 😂
I loved my visit to the Netherlands. But, obviously the funny ones were no longer. At least they had jazz music. And sex. Which could have been nice if there were more humor.
Are you kidding me? Anyone who sits around and thinks up a question like "Can you use a goat and a fish to pull a wagon?" is bound to be hilarious. But in all seriousness, I do think it's exactly that tradition of questioning and imagining and hypothesizing that does make Jews good at comedy because being funny requires you to closely observe other humans and think outside the box.
Here is a Jewish joke though it also involves Railroads and Trains. Note I am not Jewish and this is in no way anti semtic towards the Jewish people. Here it is. Also yes it is not real but is instead fake but I made the joke because I found it funny. Once there was a Jewish Synagogue in some unknown town in the United States but unlike many other synagogues it was on the other side of a railroad track. Therefore often times members of the local Jewish community often had to wait for trains to go through before they could get to the synagogue such as to celebrate events such as Hanukkah or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. Then One day at the synagogue the Jews there were preparing to preform their annual Jewish prayer. Then a ringing noise came on along with a loud horn. One of the people there asked what was that. The Rabbi then said oh it’s just a train coming don’t worry it will go by in no time. Then the noises stopped and a few moments later another person who was on his way there arrived. One of the other people there asked what took him so long. The rabbi then guessed that it was due to the train. The person whose name was Noah confirmed it as he was on the other side of the tracks and therefore had to wait for the train to pass before he could go across to the synagogue. Noah then asked how the Rabbi knew and the Rabbi then said well we heard the trains horn and we also heard the railroad crossing bells ringing so it isn’t surprising. Then finally once everyone had arrived they then preformed the annual Jewish prayer.
Your premises for your statement " why jews are inherently/ naturally funny" is so far fetched. Clutching for straws. Your conclusion/ statement should be " Why funny jews were represented heavily through west media".
"Heine" is pronounced "Hi-nuh," not "Hine." Did you really think the rabbis were being literal when they wrote that question about the fish drawing a wagon? Wow. It's "an actual question," sort of; but not a serious one. Rather, it was a way to make a point, through exaggeration and absurdity. And those are both parts of humor. Check out Prof. Daniel Boyarin's book, "Socrates and the Fat Rabbis." Boyarin compares styles of talmudic discourse to Greek and Roman philosophical works, and reveals satire and other forms of humor that many who study the Talmud miss. (Not an easy read, but before you discuss humor in the Talmud, you really should read Boyarin. He makes an important argument.) I have no affiliation with Prof. Boyarin or his book, but I did attend one of his lectures. He's a wild guy.
Ask a rabbi why there seems to be such strange questions in the talmud, but some questions are to understand a point being discussed at a fundamental level, not that people would neccessarely do it. Just ask a rabbi.
Nope, plenty of humor in the talmud. Some of it to bring out a point, some of it by law (ridiculing of idols is allowed, tractate megilla 25b). Some questions is to explain the discussed topic at a fundamental level, such as the case with the fish and the goat pulling a wagon. Even in tanach, our forefather Issac's name literally means "he will laugh". Ask a good orthodox rabbi, they will tell you this.
@@adrianblake8876 what that means is people who ridicule things that are meant to be serious, and it also says a sitting of jesters. That means is that they constantly are sitting and ridiculing, as opposed to making a good humored joke.
@@adrianblake8876 again, because it is a place designated for frivolous behavior and ridicule (and a waste of time that could be better spent in more worthwhile pursuits)
@@yaakovj2878 You keep saying "frivolous behaviour and ridicule", I don't think you understand the comedic profession (remember that "comedy" comes from ancient Greek, just like the words "circus" and "stadium" that Chazal warn against...) the video you watched refers to...
Our people had to laugh to not cry...the real life definition of SMILE NOW CRY LATER... any of our holidays can be summed up by one statement: They tried to kill us,we survived. . . LETS EAT!
That Woody Allen joke was actually Groucho Marx. I think the Marx Bros were Italian. The are a few other similar errors in this video. Overall good. But the mistakes take away from a good concept.
You can be one of the best comedians, actors, musicians, film makes etc. If you have an Arab name, even if you are a Christian, you will Not make it in the industry. Talking about racism.
Humour started in Genesis 1,25, when God made ladybugs and other humorous animals. And in Genesis 11,4.5: Humans make a tower that reaches to heaven, and God came down to see it.
@@P-Mushu it’s not just that industry, but think about it. Comedy tends to be independent. It was the whole origin of the Borscht Belt, and the only places in Florida that did admit Jews, and the founding of Hollywood because Broadway did not admit Jews.
As my channel connfirms: We are NOT funny, we don't use the vicious practice to discriminate the race of incompetent.And we are technicolor white in europe, thus falasha, Liimba, Igbo and Abaudajaare technicolor dark
The Talmud says three things characterize the Jews (humor isn't one of them- but we are funny) anyway it says.. "The Jewish people possess three characteristics: they are merciful, modest and perform deeds of kindness." (Yevamot) Guess being merciful, modest and doing good deeds wouldn't make as interesting video as this one though. And there is a lot of references for humor in the Talmud in fact it says of Rabba (one of the main teachers quoted in the Talmud) that as a pedagogic device he always started his class with a joke to relax his students! (You can google both these references if you like.)
As much as I love Jews and Israel, I must disagree. I always found it funny when Abraham keeps lowering the numbers of fair people living where Lot (His Nephew) lived, so the city would not be destroyed. And when Sarah laughs, Elohim’s Angel calls it, she denies it and Oronically Abraham’s fist born’s name’s Yishaak. G_d Made Us All Laugh! He’s aleays Tov (Good) !!! 🙏🏽
Mr Stein is hit by a cab and breaks his leg and his arm. After the EMTs get him in the bus and set up a morphine drip one asks him, "Mr Stein? Are you comfortable?" Stein replies, " Feh! I make a living."
I don’t find it funny to use comedy to masquerade deadly attacks on outsiders ( non- Jewish). For example, Sarah Silverman stand-up routine contains statements like "I hope the Jews did kill Jesus, I'd do it again in a second!" Or the extensive history of Jewish comedians (non-blacks ) impersonating blacks, especially through wearing makeup on their faces - whether accompanied by stereotyped “black language” and mannerisms. A lot of irreparable damage has already been done by the so called comedians, including those that constitute a vast number of the “ 80% of comedians being Jewish “ ,that cannot be ignored.
whether or not you like her humor, what she is doing is taking a dangerous antiSemitic trope (that the Jews killed Jesus)-and she turns the history of apologetics on its head, instead, beating anti-Jewish Christian bigots to the punch. What is the extensive history of the specifically Jewish use of blackface, etc.? Please share.
Okay....its gonna be a 3 door night. Guy walks into his doctor's office asking for help coz he's convinced he's a moth. "Doc, every single day I go to the mirror, only to see a proboscis and multi-faceted eyes...many of them." The doctor advances the opinion that perhaps a psychiatrist would be in order for this delusion. "But doc I swear I'm was in the way to see one, but your light...was just sooooo attractive."
"I guess you had to be there."
That joke is a layer deeper than it first seems to be.
The point is that when the holocaust happened, many Jews felt that God had deserted them, or lost their faith completely.
They felt that God was not there.
There is no debate on this. My ex-wife is Jewish and she is really funny, sarcastic and has perfect timing. When we were engaged, I asked her if she wanted me to convert to Judaism. Her reply was, "No, we don't want you."
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🤣 hope that ain't the reason why she's your EX 🖖🏻
That is very funny.
WHAT THE F does being "Jewish" mean ANYWAY? Am I jewish? Isn't it supposed to be a religion?
It's funny that judaism is the only religion that doesn't seem to know it's a religion. Like, aren't you supposed to believe in a single god or something, and that's it, right? 99% of the entertainers I see big media claim are "jewish" I am highly skeptical.
Just like ANY meaningless useless worthless unfalsifiable untestable association, you are a member of this assocation if you SAY you are. So, if you SAY you are jewish, then you're jewish. If you say you are not jewish, then you are not jewish.
NOBODY HAS ANY POWER OR AUTHORITY TO FORCE YOU TO BE jewish or not jewish. Don't care wtf your breeders chose to classify themselves as: if you say you are jewish then you are. If you say you are not then you are not. Period.
One of the lightest videos on a heavy topic! Well done..and may we turn this month of Av from sadness to joy!
Don't forget
ISAAC!! (YITZAK)
it means...LAUGHTER
1st JEW
Sort of
@@kathleenking47 It really means "he will laugh" or something like that (the translation to "laughter" is an error) but yeah...
A Jewish kid says to his grandfather: Grandpa I need fifty dollars
The grandfather says: Forty dollars! What do you need thirty dollars for?
Bruce Solomon
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Once again... Great video! Thanks @Unpacked!
Jewish people and Black People are top notch when it comes to comedy. Also, people who grew up in the struggle make very good comedians regardless of Ethnicity, or Color
"Blacks" Nebbich"
mercenary: True.
One night I saw a lot of really, awful open mike stand-up comedy. The, a guy stepped up who was both black and fat. I thought, "I bet he's going to be funny." And I was right.
Baiscly, the more you've had going against you, the funnier you are going to be. Not always, but often.
pain and strife is worthless when they are animal level.Cats and dogs also suffer but what have the afro americans added to humanity? Nothing but sludge
jjews and blacks - according to hebrew israelites everyone back is "the real ews", which would whiten all Minhag Limba,Minhhag Falasha,Minhaf Abajudaja and Minhag Igbo.However, my family is documented to have been inn Europe since the year 743, in 1930 we had been according to the german government black byy bastardisation, until arround 2010 I was "middle eastern-oriental" and eseciay since BLM I am now white. - I argue we're not funny, but the kind of being described is (if you have sense for abstruse sarcasti humor) is very funny.
Aye, agree 100%!
I think that certain groups of people who have been persecuted either for their race, religion or nationality created their own humor as a survival technique. Blacks, Jewish, Irish, Italians all have great comics. It reminds me of a joke a comic once said… The Jewish comics make fun of the Jews, The black conics make fun of the Blacks, The Italian comics make fun of the Italians, do you know why there aren’t any white Anglo Saxon Protestant comics? Because there’s nothing funny about them!
Of course this joke is just a generalization which comedy is based on.
The truth is everything about them is hilarious but they'll hunt you down and kill you if you make fun of them unlike the rest of us so it tends to be avoided I guess what I'm saying is say have no sense of humour
It's called conservative comedy, and you are right, it isn't funny.
However, they are funny when other people are making fun of them.
Where’s the Mizrahi vs Sephardic culture video? Wasn’t there supposed to be a video of this in July?
I was literally just asking myself this question a few hours ago. After all, Fran Dresher has been in the media A LOT at the moment and the Nanny is hilarious!
Fran Dresher is the elected President of The Screen Actors Guild of America (and beyond) a brilliant leader chosen by the members.
She’s a talented actor who can play funny. she’s probably funny whenever she wants to be.
the first recorded laugh in history is from Sarah when she finds out she is pregnant.
Any cross check references for this? It may be interesting
You're missing the true author of Eastern European Jewish humor. Before Sholem Aleichem there was a badchan at the shul of R. Boruch of Mezhybuzh: Reb Herschel of Ostropol.
Yes definitely!
And also Chasidic master Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (nephew of Boruch of Medzhibuz), his books are full of hilarious witty remarks, plus he emphasized over & over again that to attain “mitzvah gedolah lihiyot b’Simcha tamid” that every day a Jew has to make silly faces & silly voices & utilize words of humor (Sh’tut d’Kedusha)
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Hey anyone who really knows the Torah and Talmud can tell you that it's peppered with all kinds of humor. It can be pretty subtle though
Great analysis. I'd add that Jews place a high value on education, and smart humor is great humor. Also, Jews were historically shut out of a lot of professions, so excelled where they could get jobs or create jobs, finance, writing, entertainment, comedy. The best Jewish jokes are from Jews. All the good Jewish jokes I know are from my uncle Louie.
Their humor amounts to disgusting poop jokes & hatred of the host culture. They suck.
Thanks!
You bet!
Tragedy + Time = Humor
Cubans are funny?
. . . so said Mark Twain
Yes !
When I was in Yugoslavia for a winter, I noticed the lack of humor. Then, I remember they might have killed all the funny people. And the scholars.and their best musicians. Along with all their culture, except hate, superstition, conspiracy theories, and passion.
Then, there was a rebellion. No more Yugoslavia.
That got dark real quick 😂
Yugoslavia was a period of Serbian imperialism and despotism. Never again.
There it is. Jews think they are superior. Thanks for reminding everyone.
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This was a brilliant and insightful commentary, one of the best on this channel!
A little boy said to his mother,
Mama when I grow up I want to be a comedian.
The mother says… Don’t make me laugh!
Old time comedians even used Yiddish bad words
However, US didn't know them
So they got around the censors
Don Rickles with schmuck
(Family jewels, dickhead)
My Sunday school teacher told me about this channel
A hockey goalie retires and became a Roman Catholic priest. He has you to pray to the Father, the Son and the Goalie Host.😂😂😊😊
Regarding what you point out that the tolmod isn't funny we do see some reference that the rabbi were engaging in Homer like דרבה מקמי דפתח להו לרבנן אמר מילתא דבדיחותא ובדחי רבנן
Which translates rabh before he started with the students he said a joke and the students were laughing
Agreed, the Talmud has a great deal of wit and intentional absurdity in it. Dry humor.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 this one was good.
Amazing what can be accomplished when you're all secretly working together and have a stranglehold on the business side of the industry
As a Jew I can confirm I can make many people laugh after spending some time to know them a bit
Can you make Jesus lough after you spend a little bit of time to know him?
Proverbs 1:26 KJV - I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
26גַּם־֭אֲנִי בְּאֵידְכֶ֣ם אֶשְׂחָ֑ק אֶ֝לְעַ֗ג בְּבֹ֣א פַחְדְּכֶֽם׃
Much love and blessings.
WHAT THE F does being "Jewish" mean ANYWAY? Am I jewish? Isn't it supposed to be a religion?
It's funny that judaism is the only religion that doesn't seem to know it's a religion. Like, aren't you supposed to believe in a single god or something, and that's it, right? 99% of the entertainers I see big media claim are "jewish" I am highly skeptical.
Just like ANY meaningless useless worthless unfalsifiable untestable association, you are a member of this assocation if you SAY you are. So, if you SAY you are jewish, then you're jewish. If you say you are not jewish, then you are not jewish.
NOBODY HAS ANY POWER OR AUTHORITY TO FORCE YOU TO BE jewish or not jewish. Don't care wtf your breeders chose to classify themselves as: if you say you are jewish then you are. If you say you are not then you are not. Period.
The joke only Jews would get: Two gentile entrepreneurs meet on the street, the first one asks the second one, ‘So how’s business? The second one responds, ‘Great!’
Yes lol I’m Jewish and I get that joke. Jerry Seinfeld told it one time.
Does anybody know of any Swiss comedians ? Me neither !
They’re too busy being neutral to be funny.
When people tell me there is no such thing as Jewish humor I says, Compare a Marx Brothers movie to a Bob Hope 'comedy"
It should be remembered that practically all of Bob Hope's writers were Jewish - Mel Shavelson, Mort Lachman, Larry Gelbart...
@@DenisMark1 oh...I thought he wrote his own bad jokes. Why were his films so lame?
@@alg11297 I think they were relics of their time. If you're referring to the "Road" movies, they were considered quite hip when they came out, with the constant breaking the fourth wall and seeming ad libs and inside jokes. The views of women and other cultures are so out of date now and offensive, but they were just reflecting the common views of most Americans, sadly.
While I am partial to Jewish comedy writers (being one myself) I think one has to point out not only geniuses like Richard Pryor and pre-scandal Bill Cosby, but even goyish comedians like George Carlin, Steve Martin, Bob Newhart and Jonathan Winters.
And, to be fair, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson (who can also be considered retrograde today but influenced so many comedians) Jay Leno and David Letterman all strived for a certain "Jewishness" in their delivery. It's a lot to pack into a short video, but of course the subject is quite fascinating - in the late fifties and early sixties, when Jewish-ness was considered hip - think Lenny Bruce, Allen Sherman leading into Woody Allen and Mel Brooks. Up until then, most Jewish comedians who wanted to work more than the Catskills changed their names, and became "mainstream." Jewishness really didn't become "hip" again until Seinfeld. Or at least it seemed to me.
@@DenisMark1 One of his closest friends and co-workers was Jewish, too. Sammy Davis Jr.
Or, compare a Marx brothers comedy to the Jack Benny show. Only, there is a problem - Jack Benny's background was Jewish. Indeed, "Jewish" humor varies widely in form and content.
loved jacki mason
No mention of the old time comedians.
Marx brothers three stooges jack benny Eddie canter and many others from that era.
Marx Brothers are featured quite a bit in the film clips
As is generally the case with Unpacked, this was excellent.
However, I would like to point out one point with which I disagree - the Torah and the Talmud have a lot more humor than most of us give them credit for having. Not out-and out "jokes," but very subtle and very funny humorous bits.
Yasher Koach (as usual)!
In the Talmud it says you should start every learning session with a joke
How about the prophet Eliyahu (Elijah) making fun of the pagan prophets of baal praying to their god? I Kings 18:27:
"And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened."
Tragedy, comedy?
Jews: Yes
Of course you can't cover everyone, but just a suggestion - Lenny Bruce was the father of modern stand-up comedy.
Nah. But he did do a lot to push the envelope on what comedian safe permitted to say on stage. He suffered for it, too, getting arrested time after time for saying dirty words on stage. Now, people like Dave Chapel can talk about sexual situations and use obscenities during their acts and face no real consequences. But it was Lenny Bruce who paved the way for it.
Three Stooges and The Marx Brothers were Jewish. Don't forget.
Hey! We are a funny people!
There's DRY HUMOR too
I took my mom with me to my OBGYN when I was pregnant.
He'd make my mom laugh, but I didn't get it😋
the thing is that everyone is Jewish - as it is where religion began.
but than other philosophical idea took root ,and some of the people started to believe in them ,while call it "a new religion:
I disagree that our foundational, religious, writings don’t have humor. Sure, it’s not 10 laughs a page. But for documents that are supposed to deal with serious, deep eternal reality type issues, they have more than their fair share of humor. You don’t see too many Supreme Court opinions peppered with jokes. But it’s never surprising to find humor in the pages of the Talmud.
I think humor has always been part of the fabric of our lives. It’s always been a part of our strength.
0:43 maybe not naturally but predominantly funny.
I beg to differ . Have you read the story of purim? The torah is filled with Irony and wittiness. The talmud has jokes all over . This humor is the dark side of things . My rabbis are the funniest people on the planet hands down
Sacha Baron Cohen, That is all 😅
Amy Schumer? Really?
Thanks great video overall but NOT true about lack of humor in Talmud (Gemara)…..
Talmud is 63 huge books (tractates) and it’s full of the most WITTY humor & the most brilliantly absurd comedic scenarios, of any book in the universe! - that on most days of the daily Daf Yomi of Talmud I literally laugh out loud….
Talmudic humor is in a superb category of its own, as it is after all Divine Humor!
Amen to that
@@antonheidenreich7053 It says righteous Gentiles are like a High Priest.
Agreed.
Jews are a blessed people
Black people are the funniest in America. Eddie Murphy getting cast on Saturday Night Live in 1984 improved the ratings so much it prevented NBC from wanting to cancel the show and this was during the same time that Chris Rock got hired too.
No mention of vaudeville????
Or of the Catskills… this isn’t very place or institution specific. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Gracho Marx was at a hotel with his not jewish wife and their daughter.The child was going into the pool and was told no jews allowed So he said can she ho half way in?😂😂😂😂
The Father also says not to mock Him
why before the holocaust you have to mention the spanish inquisition 1478 for us the sephardic jews
😂😂😂😂 thank u Unpacked
The line about "any club that would let me in" wasn't an Allen original; Groucho was ahead. Re: Heine, it's a mistake to say he wasn't a Jew. Judaism's not religion, it's family. You can't negate your status as a brother or son.
My guess is that Ashkenazi have more access to media
What does this mean?
@@saraleigh5336 back during Jim Crow, many Ashkenazi played black face caricatures that dehumanized Juduaic American descendants of slaves.
Correcting a small mistake Jesus was never a Christian
He was from Nazareth - the word Christian in English comes from the word Messiah in English which in Hebrew means anointed with anointing oil.
Thus even the products = the messiahs who were murdered in the amphitheater in Rome were actually Jews who called themselves messiahs -
Seinfeld was never Jewish
@@YolandaPlayne You should read the New Testament in Matthew Luke and you will see that it is explicitly written that Jesus was a Jew, was circumcised, died as a Jew - that's why Seinfeld is also a Jew, like Jesus every person in the nation is the son of God and like Jesus everyone is precious to God...
And finally what to do with all respect to all the antisemites Jesus Marx Lenin and many other great people all of Jewish origin to the chagrin of the antisemites - and what to do the Jews contributed to the world like all the other nations of the world combined! And they are barely 15 million souls, a standard error of a census of the population of China or India - where the population is 1.5 billion souls plus or minus 15 million...
And these 15 million Jews contributed to the world as much as the other 8 billion combined!
@@kablanetkablanet989 I'm not sure how the bible proves Seinfeld is Jewish.
@@YolandaPlayne We are talking about the fact that the New Testament Bible presents Jesus as a Jew and we did not talk about Seinfeld - Seinfeld is Jewish because his parents are Jewish and they are Jewish because their parents are Jewish and so on and so forth until you reach the first Hebrew Abraham approximately 5000 years ago - thus Seinfeld is Jewish!
@@kablanetkablanet989 you sound like a flat earther. "Jesus's parents"? Seinfeld is descended from Abraham? Hahhaha. Thanks for that
I want to ask a question. Can someone who is Turkish and Muslim be Jewish? Or do we always remain Gohim?
אני רוצה לשאול שאלה. האם מישהו טורקי ומוסלמי יכול להיות יהודי? או שאנחנו תמיד נשארים גוהים?
Well anyone can convert if they really want to but Judaism doesn't proselytize or persuade conversion. It's only if the person is committed and really wants to
Soviet Russian language satirical and humorous stage was also dominated by Ashkenazi Jews as authors and often presenters
no it wasn't, jewbolthink is thoughtcrime
What's totally missing from this video is that it's a description of why *Ashkenazi* Jews (mainly of Eastern European origin) have dominated comedy for the past 100 years or so. There's no discussion whatsoever of Sephardi or Mizrahi Jewish (of Mediterranean, North African, and Middle Eastern origin) humour, if there is any such thing.
Jewish Diaspora groups don't come from Europe. Like all Diaspora groups we come from the Levant
@@tagbarzeev8283 On an ultimate level, dating back 2-3 millennia, that's true. But I'm talking about descent from the past number of centuries - in Europe, the entire Mediterranean, and elsewhere.
I think part of the reason for Ashkenazi Jews being so intellectually well endowed is the prolonged inbreeding (because of isolation) combined with constant survival anxiety.
It creates statistically more freaks and some of those freaks turn out to be brilliant and are immediately put to use so the group can survive better.
Jews, and other minorities are great at comedy, because comedy comes from pain. Something, all of us can relate to.
I'm from the Netherlands and i agree. Back in the old days we had incredible funny ones. Sharp as a knife, sarcastic like hell and always making a fool out of themselves 😂
I loved my visit to the Netherlands. But, obviously the funny ones were no longer. At least they had jazz music. And sex. Which could have been nice if there were more humor.
Not sure if you intended to say something insulting, but you do realize that this is insulting, no?
Are you kidding me? Anyone who sits around and thinks up a question like "Can you use a goat and a fish to pull a wagon?" is bound to be hilarious.
But in all seriousness, I do think it's exactly that tradition of questioning and imagining and hypothesizing that does make Jews good at comedy because being funny requires you to closely observe other humans and think outside the box.
In case I need to pull a cart with a fish and a goat, it’s nice to know there’s guidelines already for that.
Here is a Jewish joke though it also involves Railroads and Trains. Note I am not Jewish and this is in no way anti semtic towards the Jewish people. Here it is. Also yes it is not real but is instead fake but I made the joke because I found it funny.
Once there was a Jewish Synagogue in some unknown town in the United States but unlike many other synagogues it was on the other side of a railroad track. Therefore often times members of the local Jewish community often had to wait for trains to go through before they could get to the synagogue such as to celebrate events such as Hanukkah or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. Then One day at the synagogue the Jews there were preparing to preform their annual Jewish prayer. Then a ringing noise came on along with a loud horn. One of the people there asked what was that. The Rabbi then said oh it’s just a train coming don’t worry it will go by in no time. Then the noises stopped and a few moments later another person who was on his way there arrived. One of the other people there asked what took him so long. The rabbi then guessed that it was due to the train. The person whose name was Noah confirmed it as he was on the other side of the tracks and therefore had to wait for the train to pass before he could go across to the synagogue. Noah then asked how the Rabbi knew and the Rabbi then said well we heard the trains horn and we also heard the railroad crossing bells ringing so it isn’t surprising. Then finally once everyone had arrived they then preformed the annual Jewish prayer.
All the Jewish comics out there and y'all picked a fictional character played by a non-Jew for the thumbnail. Get it together Unpacked.
Yes!
@@saraleigh5336 I notice the thumbnail now shows Adam Sandler. Ha!
@@AbbaKovner-gg9zp woo hoo!
@AbbaKovner-gg9zp who did it show before?
@@shrimpscampin the actress from Mrs. Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan
The Talmud does not have anything to-do with Jewish comedians. It is, however, one of the reasons that there are so many Jewish lawyers.
Are you kidding me? I find the idea of removing an oven's door, then putting it back, makes it a brand new oven, extremely funny.
The funniest thing is that, while arguably the best at telling jokes, they are definitely the worst at taking them
Would be great if the thumbnail actually depicted a Jew.
He missed the puns in Tanakh and the handful of your momma jokes in the Talmud
Your premises for your statement " why jews are inherently/ naturally funny" is so far fetched. Clutching for straws. Your conclusion/ statement should be " Why funny jews were represented heavily through west media".
"Heine" is pronounced "Hi-nuh," not "Hine." Did you really think the rabbis were being literal when they wrote that question about the fish drawing a wagon? Wow. It's "an actual question," sort of; but not a serious one. Rather, it was a way to make a point, through exaggeration and absurdity. And those are both parts of humor. Check out Prof. Daniel Boyarin's book, "Socrates and the Fat Rabbis." Boyarin compares styles of talmudic discourse to Greek and Roman philosophical works, and reveals satire and other forms of humor that many who study the Talmud miss. (Not an easy read, but before you discuss humor in the Talmud, you really should read Boyarin. He makes an important argument.) I have no affiliation with Prof. Boyarin or his book, but I did attend one of his lectures. He's a wild guy.
"Heine" is pronounced "Hi-nuh," not "Hine." - THANK YOU. Is NO ONE literate on this production team? How hard it is it to check a pronunciation?
Ask a rabbi why there seems to be such strange questions in the talmud, but some questions are to understand a point being discussed at a fundamental level, not that people would neccessarely do it. Just ask a rabbi.
@@yaakovj2878oesn’t require asking a rabbi; this is fairly common knowledge. But you do you.
Nope, plenty of humor in the talmud. Some of it to bring out a point, some of it by law (ridiculing of idols is allowed, tractate megilla 25b).
Some questions is to explain the discussed topic at a fundamental level, such as the case with the fish and the goat pulling a wagon.
Even in tanach, our forefather Issac's name literally means "he will laugh".
Ask a good orthodox rabbi, they will tell you this.
But Psalms1 says that blessed is the man who doesn't hang out with jesters...
@@adrianblake8876 what that means is people who ridicule things that are meant to be serious, and it also says a sitting of jesters. That means is that they constantly are sitting and ridiculing, as opposed to making a good humored joke.
@@yaakovj2878 But the Talmud says (in Avodah Zara 18b) this applies to people who go to the circus...
@@adrianblake8876 again, because it is a place designated for frivolous behavior and ridicule (and a waste of time that could be better spent in more worthwhile pursuits)
@@yaakovj2878 You keep saying "frivolous behaviour and ridicule", I don't think you understand the comedic profession (remember that "comedy" comes from ancient Greek, just like the words "circus" and "stadium" that Chazal warn against...) the video you watched refers to...
Our people had to laugh to not cry...the real life definition of SMILE NOW CRY LATER...
any of our holidays can be summed up by one statement: They tried to kill us,we survived. . . LETS EAT!
Bro, what is Amy Schumer doing in the cover of this video? 🤣, she’s not even funny, come on 🤣
I just LOVE Shalom Eloheim 's books-- so many hilarious stories ❤
Judaism, the greatest story of an underdog who was being molded into a Lion!
B"H Being Israeli, speaking Yiddish,Hebrew and some Arabic, Jews are very funny, so Arabs have a similar sense of Humor. Blacks? Nebbich
That Woody Allen joke was actually Groucho Marx. I think the Marx Bros were Italian.
The are a few other similar errors in this video. Overall good. But the mistakes take away from a good concept.
I feel like Ashkenazi are more comfortable with self deprecating humor than sephardi
You can be one of the best comedians, actors, musicians, film makes etc. If you have an Arab name, even if you are a Christian, you will Not make it in the industry. Talking about racism.
Humour started in Genesis 1,25, when God made ladybugs and other humorous animals.
And in Genesis 11,4.5: Humans make a tower that reaches to heaven, and God came down to see it.
Is just nepotism
You said it brother
They created whole new industries specifically because they were not permitted in other industries. It is the opposite of nepotism.
@@saraleigh5336 why those specifically then?
@@P-Mushu it’s not just that industry, but think about it. Comedy tends to be independent. It was the whole origin of the Borscht Belt, and the only places in Florida that did admit Jews, and the founding of Hollywood because Broadway did not admit Jews.
@@saraleigh5336 jews created NBC? 😂🤣
Der jüdische witz mit arik brauer, beste
I hope the zionists don't try to make the Palestinian genocide funny.
As my channel connfirms: We are NOT funny, we don't use the vicious practice to discriminate the race of incompetent.And we are technicolor white in europe, thus falasha, Liimba, Igbo and Abaudajaare technicolor dark
In the UK, it’s Irish and Liverpudlian people who are seen as funny. Maybe Jewish people are Americas version of this.
The Talmud says three things characterize the Jews (humor isn't one of them- but we are funny) anyway it says.. "The Jewish people possess three characteristics: they are merciful, modest and perform deeds of kindness." (Yevamot) Guess being merciful, modest and doing good deeds wouldn't make as interesting video as this one though. And there is a lot of references for humor in the Talmud in fact it says of Rabba (one of the main teachers quoted in the Talmud) that as a pedagogic device he always started his class with a joke to relax his students! (You can google both these references if you like.)
What u got from this video is that I'm funny because I'm jewish
I don’t support mocking God, but those other comedic strategies are rather effective for me.
The Jewish people is named after wrestling with God, Yisrael. This is part of it.
@@saraleigh5336 interesting.
Well we do love to troll alot
🙈🙉🙊🖖🏻
As much as I love Jews and Israel, I must disagree. I always found it funny when Abraham keeps lowering the numbers of fair people living where Lot (His Nephew) lived, so the city would not be destroyed. And when Sarah laughs, Elohim’s Angel calls it, she denies it and Oronically Abraham’s fist born’s name’s Yishaak. G_d Made Us All Laugh! He’s aleays Tov (Good) !!! 🙏🏽
Ironically *
Mr Stein is hit by a cab and breaks his leg and his arm. After the EMTs get him in the bus and set up a morphine drip one asks him, "Mr Stein? Are you comfortable?"
Stein replies, " Feh! I make a living."
They also have 22% of the Nobel prizes
No better example than KRUSTY THE CLOWN!!
Or rather his creator, Matt Groening, who went to the same high school my daughters attended, Lincoln HS in Portland.
More specifically NYC Jews. The number of comedians from there is too amazing to be coincidental. Carlin must've been half goya.
I don’t find it funny to use comedy to masquerade deadly attacks on outsiders ( non- Jewish). For example,
Sarah Silverman stand-up routine contains statements like "I hope the Jews did kill Jesus, I'd do it again in a second!"
Or the extensive history of Jewish comedians (non-blacks ) impersonating blacks, especially through wearing makeup on their faces - whether accompanied by stereotyped “black language” and mannerisms.
A lot of irreparable damage has already been done by the so called comedians, including those that constitute a vast number of the “ 80% of comedians being Jewish “ ,that cannot be ignored.
Jews are commanded not to be afraid of killing the false prophet in Deuteronomy 18:22.
whether or not you like her humor, what she is doing is taking a dangerous antiSemitic trope (that the Jews killed Jesus)-and she turns the history of apologetics on its head, instead, beating anti-Jewish Christian bigots to the punch.
What is the extensive history of the specifically Jewish use of blackface, etc.? Please share.
@@hrvatskinoahid1048 they did not kill jesus, this is just a sad attempt to try to make them look good
They do?
No.
This would be funnier without gags cut in every two seconds. Can't get through it.
the funniest one was Karl Marx
his letter about lassalle was indeed hilarious
Okay....its gonna be a 3 door night.
Guy walks into his doctor's office asking for help coz he's convinced he's a moth. "Doc, every single day I go to the mirror, only to see a proboscis and multi-faceted eyes...many of them."
The doctor advances the opinion that perhaps a psychiatrist would be in order for this delusion.
"But doc I swear I'm was in the way to see one, but your light...was just sooooo attractive."
Check out native american humor. Very similar - self-deprecating, ironic.
Don Rickles the King of Jews (his words) and of Comedy
What's the deal with nepotism? 😂🤣