Tuesday, January 24, 2012

More of Amy Borkowsky's Hilarious Answering Machine Messages From Her Mother


Last February we posted a story and video about Amy Borkowsky and the answering machine messages from her mother that she turned into an iPhone application called Amy's Mom.

This week we found a larger collection of these saved messages with Amy's comments on them. Some are very funny and are bound to make you chuckle, if not laugh aloud.

Amy got her first clue that the messages which drove her crazy could be entertaining to others in her early days on New York's stand-up comedy circuit. After gathering some of her mother's most extreme messages, she played them on stage at Manhattan's top comedy clubs, and audiences consistently howled. 

The daughter who Mom nicknamed “Amila” (AY-muh-luh) stepped into the national spotlight when she appeared on the “Today” show with Matt Lauer and on National Public Radio's “Morning Edition” to introduce the first volume of her “Amy's Answering Machine: Messages from Mom” comedy CDs. Since then, she has produced a second CD, a two-volume CD set, and downloads from iTunes. They're all available from her web site.

Enjoy!

(A SPECIAL NOTE FOR NEW EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS:  THE VIDEO MAY NOT BE VIEWABLE DIRECTLY FROM THE EMAIL THAT YOU GET EACH DAY ON SOME COMPUTERS AND TABLETS.  YOU MUST CLICK ON THE TITLE AT THE TOP OF THE EMAIL TO REACH THE JEWISH HUMOR CENTRAL WEBSITE, FROM WHICH YOU CLICK ON THE PLAY BUTTON IN THE VIDEO IMAGE TO START THE VIDEO.)


3 comments:

  1. I can't breathe.... I can't see....
    because I'm laughing so hard that I'm crying!
    I wonder how much time went by before Amyleh realized that she could make a few bucks off her Momma's wisdom! (probably a day and a half)

    Beyond Brilliant!

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  2. and this just goes to rove the fact that there's NO MOTHER LIKE A JEWISH MOTHER!! B"HASHEM..........
    Loveit!!!!!

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  3. I heard this first on NPR's "Best of" series. I'm so happy to find more recordings....these are classic!!! God Bless Amyleh's mom

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