In the sketch, Seinfeld is joined by fellow comedians Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, and David Spade.
Enjoy!
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Last November, Novak retold the joke, along with many others,
in an hour-long webinar sponsored by Moment Magazine called Election Day 2022: Jewish Jokes Edition. The session was recorded and includes many more jokes, which we will share with you in the coming weeks.
Novak has since written another book titled Die Laughing: Killer Jokes for Newly Old Folks, which is filled with many more jokes that will keep you laughing for a long time.
Here's
the setup for today's joke: Ruth, a prim and proper widow in her mid-seventies is introduced to Mort, also widowed and a couple of years older. After a brief and chaste courtship, they decide to marry. And then...
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Today Joel Gibbs is back in the role of Sol Krupnick telling one of his short stories.
Gibbs is starring as Sol Krupnick in “Meet Sol Krupnick,” “an on-stage, theatrical, one-man-show” about a “Jewish kibitzer of undetermined (old) age who shares fun stories about his crazy family, tells classic jokes and offers ‘unique’ observations about the world around him.”
Or, in other words, the 70-year-old Jewish grandfather is performing a one-man show as himself.
Gibbs, a longtime congregant at Shir Ami in Newtown who still attends events at the synagogue, opened his show with a recent performance at KleinLife in Northeast Philadelphia. About 200 friends and family members came to show their support. But really, they came to laugh. As Gibbs said of the night, “I portrayed the character; I told the stories and jokes; the audience laughed a lot.”
Gibbs calls himself the “Man of a Thousand Voices.” He does more than 100 celebrity impressions and has worked on more than 40,000 projects worldwide, according to his press release. He partnered with Billy Crystal, Julie Andrews and other celebrities on the “Love the Arts in Philadelphia” campaign to promote the city’s cultural institutions.
Today
we're sharing one of Sol's stories about how the owner of his favorite delis handled a delicate matter with the IRS.
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The kids performed at a Havdalah ceremony in which they sang Shabbat songs from the liturgies for Friday night Kabbalat Shabbat and Shabbat day. Here you can see them bringing in Shabbat with Shalom Aleichem.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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Gore, born Lesley Sue Goldstein, was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. At the age of 16, she recorded the pop hit "It's My Party", a US number one in 1963. She followed it up with ten further Billboard top 40 hits including "Judy's Turn to Cry" and "You Don't Own Me".
Gore recorded composer Marvin Hamlisch's first hit composition, "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows", on May 21, 1963, while "It's My Party" was climbing the charts.
Gore later worked as an actress and television personality. She composed songs with her brother Michael Gore for the 1980 film Fame, for which he won an Academy Award.
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After a series of theatrical
film shorts, also titled Candid Microphone,
Funt's concept came to television on August 10, 1948, and continued
into the 1970s.
The show involved concealing cameras filming ordinary people being
confronted with unusual situations, sometimes involving trick props,
such as a desk with drawers that pop open when one is closed or a car
with a hidden extra gas tank. When the joke was revealed, victims would
be told the show's catchphrase, "Smile, you're on Candid Camera."
Peter Funt joined the show professionally in 1987 when he became a co-host with his father. During this time the show was being broadcast on the CBS television network. In 1993, Allen Funt had a serious stroke, from which he never fully recovered. This required Peter to host the show full-time.
The show went through a few revivals. During his time on the show Peter was a producer, host and acted on the show. He also produced and hosted over 200 episodes.
In
this classic episode set in a restaurant, diners take their check to the cashier where they are told that there will be a 5 to 10 minute wait to pay because there are other diners ahead of them.
Enjoy!
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He was best known for his role as BPD Detective, NYPD Detective/Sergeant, and DA Investigator John Munch, whom he portrayed as a regular cast member on the NBC police drama series Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,as well as in guest appearances on several other series. He portrayed the character for 23 years, from 1993 until retiring in 2016.
As Jason Zinoman wrote yesterday in The New York Times,
Belzer is best known for his performances as a detective on TV, but his acting career was built on a signature persona in comedy, as a master of seductive crowd work who set the template for the MC in the early days of the comedy club. Often in jackets and shirts buttoned low, he cut a stylish image, spiky and louche. He could charm with the best of them, but unlike many performers, he didn’t come off as desperate for your approval. He understood that one of the peculiar things about comedy is that the line between irritation and ingratiation could easily blur.
Here's a video clip of a Belzer stand-up comedy performance in 1978 when he imagined what Bob Dylan sounded like at his Bar Mitzvah and what he would sound like as a Yiddish-inflected singer in his 80's.
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Marshal (Mickey) Greenblatt received degrees from Columbia (BA and BS in Flight Sciences), a DC from Von Karman Institute (1963) and his PhD from Princeton in Aerospace Sciences. He worked as a researcher for NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory.
With four other scientists, he founded Fusion Systems Corporation, which invented microwave-powered UV lamps for drying coatings. He founded and served on the boards of technology companies and is active in volunteer work. He served on the executive committee of the Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington for many years.
Mickey
also loves Jewish jokes and sent us this one to share with you. Here's
the setup: A group of Americans was traveling through Switzerland on a
big bus tour. As they stopped at a dairy farm the young guide led them
through the process of making cheese. And then...
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Mary Katherine Gallagher, played by Molly Shannon, has a crush on Lenny and is the only Catholic girl who asks him to go out for a knish.
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Cantor Mirski was born and grew up in Przemyśl, Poland. Music, spirituality and philosophy are three of his passions, to which he has been devoted throughout his entire life. He received a master's degree in philosophy in 2005 at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland.
Soon after, in 2006, he founded his first klezmer band, Klezmaholics, with whom he recorded two CDs and toured Sweden, Ukraine, Romania and his home country, Poland. The tour included concerts at the Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków in 2017 and 2018, together with American Yiddish singer Cindy Paley.
During his rabbinic program cantor Mirski has worked for several Reform and Conservative communities in the Los Angeles area: Temple Adat Elohim in Thousand Oaks, Temple Mishkon Tephilo in Venice, Adat Shalom (Los Angeles), and Temple Beth Israel in Pomona, as a cantor, b'nai mitzvah tutor and Torah reader. He has also worked as a rabbinic intern at Masorti Olami, leading religious services as well as teaching weekly on-line Torah class for Warsaw's Jewish community.
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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The program, Funniest Jewish Moments in Movies and Television, will include video clips from The Frisco Kid, All in the Family, Seinfeld, When Harry Met Sally, The Johnny Carson Show, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and Blazing Saddles.
The show is from 3 pm to 4:30 pm at FAU's Friedberg Auditorium in the Lifelong Learning Building. Entrance to the University is at 777 Glades Road in Boca Raton. Admission at the door is $35. Members can purchase tickets in advance for $30.
So bring your friends and let's meet afterwards to share some jokes at the conclusion of the program.
Here's a sample of what you'll see:
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Here's an excerpt from his first appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2007.
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There always have been mixed feelings in the Jewish world about celebrating this day which originally was named in honor of Valentine, a Christian saint. And today, you can find opinions from rabbis of all Jewish denominations that approve and disapprove of its observance.
We did some searching and found that despite some views that the holiday is foreign to Judaism and should be avoided, there are a growing number of opinions, even in the Orthodox world, that not only should the holiday be observed, but that it should be embraced.
As Rabbi Benjamin Blech, professsor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, has written about Valentine's Day on the aish.com website,As Jews, we may not be sure whether it's proper for us to join the party. After all, for the longest time the full name of this holiday was “St. Valentine's Day” because of its legendary link with the apocryphal story of one of the earliest Christian saints. Yet academics aren't the only ones who have recognized the dubious historical basis of this connection. Vatican II, the landmark set of reforms adopted by the Catholic Church in 1969, removed Valentine's Day from the Catholic church's calendar, asserting that "though the memorial of St. Valentine is ancient… apart from his name nothing is known… except that he was buried on the Via Flaminia on 14 February."What's left for this day, as proponents of its universal celebration declare, is something that people of all faiths may in good conscience observe: A day in which to acknowledge the power of love to make us fully human.When I am asked as a rabbi if I think it's a good idea for Jews to celebrate Valentine's Day, my standard answer is, "Yes, we should celebrate love… every day of the year."
Last year, on Election Day, Novak retold the joke, along with many others,
in an hour-long webinar sponsored by Moment Magazine called Election Day 2022: Jewish Jokes Edition. The session was recorded and includes many more jokes, which we will share with you in the coming weeks.
Novak has since written another book titled Die Laughing: Killer Jokes for Newly Old Folks, which is filled with many more jokes that will keep you laughing for a long time.
Here's
the setup for today's joke: On a Delta flight from Atlanta a middle-aged, well-dressed woman finds herself seated next to a bearded man wearing a kippah. She immediately presses the button to call the flight attendant. And then...
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Today we're going back 50 years to share a parody of the song by three British actors and musicians, with a translation that has nothing to do with the meaning of the original words.
In this video, Dudley Moore, Val Doonican, and Peter Cook collaborate in a spoof of Hava Nagila in which Nagila is a little Japanese sports car that's being sold by a British car dealer. Sure, it's silly, and so is the rest of the comedy sketch. But it was funny enough to air in 1972.
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Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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Carroll
was born as Celine Zeigman on January 7, 1911 in Paris, France. She
began her career as part of the comedy dance team Carroll and Howe, with
her husband, vaudevillian Buddy Howe, who later became her manager.
She appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show more than 20 times and had her own short-lived sitcom, The Jean Carroll Show (also known as Take It From Me), which aired for one season (1953–1954).
Here is a rare TV standup comedy routine that she delivered in 1965.
Enjoy!
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Candid Camera was an American hidden camera/practical joke reality television series created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially began on radio as The Candid Microphone on June 28, 1947.
After a series of theatrical
film shorts, also titled Candid Microphone,
Funt's concept came to television on August 10, 1948, and continued
into the 1970s.
The show involved concealing cameras filming ordinary people being
confronted with unusual situations, sometimes involving trick props,
such as a desk with drawers that pop open when one is closed or a car
with a hidden extra gas tank. When the joke was revealed, victims would
be told the show's catchphrase, "Smile, you're on Candid Camera."
Peter Funt joined the show professionally in 1987 when he became a co-host with his father. During this time the show was being broadcast on the CBS television network. In 1993, Allen Funt had a serious stroke, from which he never fully recovered. This required Peter to host the show full-time.
The show went through a few revivals. During his time on the show Peter was a producer, host and acted on the show. He also produced and hosted over 200 episodes.
In
this classic episode a movie theater measured people as they entered and told them that the new policy was to seat them by height. Short people had to sit in the first two rows and tall people in the back two rows. Some of the reactions are hilarious.
Enjoy!
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We've already featured some of his videos on the Evolution of Chassidic Dance, High Fiving Strangers in New York, Dancing Behind People in Jerusalem, How to Lift the Torah Like a Boss, and Looking for a Leader in the Park.
In this video Meir tries to fight hate with love and plants a sign in the street saying "If you support your Jewish Friends and the Jewish People, Let's Hug." And guess what happens.
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Our "Joke to Start the Week" post every Monday consistently gets the most views and we're happy to share the humor of Marshal Greenblatt, William Novak, and Dr. Jay Orlikoff whenever we find suitable jokes in their postings.
Today we're adding a new jokester to our weekly lineup and sharing some of the jokes and stories that Bucks County, Pennsylvania-based voice actor Joel Gibbs has been posting on his YouTube channel "Sol Stories."
Gibbs is starring as Sol Krupnick in “Meet Sol Krupnick,” “an on-stage, theatrical, one-man-show” about a “Jewish kibitzer of undetermined (old) age who shares fun stories about his crazy family, tells classic jokes and offers ‘unique’ observations about the world around him.”
Or, in other words, the 70-year-old Jewish grandfather is performing a one-man show as himself.
Gibbs, a longtime congregant at Shir Ami in Newtown who still attends events at the synagogue, opened his show with a recent performance at KleinLife in Northeast Philadelphia. About 200 friends and family members came to show their support. But really, they came to laugh. As Gibbs said of the night, “I portrayed the character; I told the stories and jokes; the audience laughed a lot.”
Gibbs calls himself the “Man of a Thousand Voices.” He does more than 100 celebrity impressions and has worked on more than 40,000 projects worldwide, according to his press release. He partnered with Billy Crystal, Julie Andrews and other celebrities on the “Love the Arts in Philadelphia” campaign to promote the city’s cultural institutions.
Today we're sharing one of Sol's stories about the time his wife Sophie was having breakfast with one of her friends and noticed something strange about her friend's ear.
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The show was created and produced by Drescher and her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, taking much of its inspiration from Drescher's personal life growing up in Queens, involving names and characteristics based on her relatives and friends. The show earned a Rose d'Or, and one Emmy Award, out of a total of twelve nominations; Drescher was twice nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy. The sitcom has also spawned several foreign adaptations, loosely inspired by the original scripts.
One episode featured the use of Yiddish words starting with "far...", providing a minute of laughs and also a lesson in Yiddish expressions.
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Coming from different corners of the world, its members found each other in Israel, where they are rapidly becoming a sought after group to entertain audiences big and small. They specialize in mixing classical Jewish songs with modern pop.
Today we're welcoming Shabbat by sharing a Rabotai medley of Shabbat songs including V'shamru (Kiddush), Dror Yikra (Zemirot), and Naar Hayiti (Birkat Hamazon).
Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!
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Sedaka was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Mordechai "Mac" Sedaka, was a taxi driver of Sephardi Jewish descent from Turkey. Sedaka's paternal grandparents came to the United States from Istanbul in 1910.
Sedaka's mother, Eleanor (née Appel), was an Ashkenazi Jew of Polish and Russian descent. He grew up in Brighton Beach. Sedaka (the name is a variant of the Hebrew word Tzedaka - charity) is a cousin of singer Eydie Gorme.
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After a series of theatrical
film shorts, also titled Candid Microphone,
Funt's concept came to television on August 10, 1948, and continued
into the 1970s.
The show involved concealing cameras filming ordinary people being
confronted with unusual situations, sometimes involving trick props,
such as a desk with drawers that pop open when one is closed or a car
with a hidden extra gas tank. When the joke was revealed, victims would
be told the show's catchphrase, "Smile, you're on Candid Camera."
Peter Funt joined the show professionally in 1987 when he became a co-host with his father. During this time the show was being broadcast on the CBS television network. In 1993, Allen Funt had a serious stroke, from which he never fully recovered. This required Peter to host the show full-time.
The show went through a few revivals. During his time on the show Peter was a producer, host and acted on the show. He also produced and hosted over 200 episodes.
In
this classic 1992 episode people arriving for a medical exam are surprised to discover that instead of seeing a doctor, they are asked to sit in a booth equipped with medical equipment and respond to instructions from a voice in the booth.
Enjoy!
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