An Unforgettable Night of Jewish Humor at the 92nd Street Y

Yiddish novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer once told San Francisco-based NPR talk host Michael Krasny that “Jews suffer from every disease except amnesia.”
Four of The New Yorker’s leading writers, Calvin Trillin, Patricia Marx, Adam Gopnik and Jeffrey Toobin join in conversation with Krasny, author of the bestselling book, Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means.
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[@bjrnmgranvang1107]

Some Jewish Russian refugees arrived at Ben-Gurion International, and a reporter asked them a few questions about what it was like in Russia, like how was the food, the housing, life in general. The Jew that was interviewd said, well you can't complain. Naturally, the reporter asked, so, why move to Israel? Because here you can complain.

[@InkaPley]

❤❤❤

[@nancya7289]

Some of my favorite people on a panel discussing a favorite topic. And yet, not great.

[@cindygordon5429]

Love the dichotomy of inferiority yet we know we ‘re great! Watching this delightful, funny smart show I totally embrace my Jewishness - Yiddish et al! Thank you-just superb! Another book sale!

[@InkaPley]

❤❤❤

[@howardkoor9365]

Thanks for sharing

[@Traderjoe]

Some of the funniest parts of this is watching them try and contain their frustration at trying to get their jokes out before the other panelist can

[@JM-dv1zq]

Can't stand jewish narcissism !!

[@InkaPley]

Ahhh the tug-of-war of our genetics ❤

[@adamchurvis1]

Greatest Jewish joke of all time (that not one Goy will ever understand, much less laugh at): Skippy and Chip, two Gentile businessmen, meet for lunch. Skippy asks Chip, "How's business?" Chip says, "Great!"

[@InkaPley]

One of my favorite jokes❤ A gentile calls his mother and says "ma,I can't make it for dinner tonight". The mom says "OK, honey, not a problem ,thanks for letting me know".

[@adamchurvis1]

@@InkaPley Yep, mine too!

[@bluetoad2001]

this stuff is priceless ✅✌️😎👍

[@jimenabronfman6522]

And I'm a Bronfman too! Not the Canadian Bronfmans, but the great Santiago, Chile family!!!!!!

[@lizgichora6472]

Thank you.

[@howardkoor9365]

A treasure trove of humor

[@user-nf4cb8hu5j]

A young man decided to leave the Shtetl and go to New York. Leaving his Mother behind off he went. When he got there being on his own he would go and eat dinner every evening at the same diner and order the same menu of steak. Each day he would cut off the first bite and then devour the rest. The owner couldn’t make out this process , apologetically he went to the guy and asked him why he cuts off the first piece. His reply was “when I left my Mother she wished me all the Blessings , but if I eat Treif (non kosher) may you choke on the first bite so that piece put to the side.

[@InkaPley]

❤😂❤😂❤ Thank you for sharing!

[@Dan_The_Dude]

My favourite Jewish joke: A Hasidic man goes to his rabbi and says "Rabbi, you'll never believe what just happened to me; my son left home and became a Christian!" And the rabbi says "unbelievable! My son also left home and became a Christian!" So the man asks the rabbi "well, what should we do about it" and the rabbi says "we should pray to G-d and seek His guidance." And so they pray and G-d answers and say "you'll never believe what happened to me"

[@SashaB11910G]

This is the opposite of a Jewish joke.

[@Dan_The_Dude]

SashaB11910G what do you mean?

[@SashaB11910G]

This is clearly a Christian joke. It assumes the Christian narrative to be both true and superior. It does not make fun of the Jews - it mocks them. It has in fact a distinct smell of age old Christian antisemitism. A Jewish joke would be making fun of Mary getting knocked up and claiming that a spirit did and of Joseph for believing it.

[@Dan_The_Dude]

SashaB11910G I never interpreted it that way. I mean, i first heard it in a video of two Hasidic men roasting their boss at the at a Jewish TV network. I do now see that it does kind of imply that Jesus is the son of G-d (I was raised Christian, and I'm currently a conversion student; I guess Jesus being the son of G-d is just kind of imbedded in my brain lol). I still don't see how it mocks Jews, or how it would be anti-Semitic. I am willing and happy to learn though, so if you're willing to explain how I'd greatly appreciate it.

[@SashaB11910G]

Look Dan, explaining jokes seldom works. It is not the most offensive joke, I just don't find it as funny as you do.

[@frisco21]

How many Jewish grandmothers does it take to screw in a light bulb? None. I'll just sit in the dark.

[@InkaPley]

❤

[@jimkahn957]

One has to remember that it's also important how a punch-line is delivered...whether it's done in a dry tone, a funny tone, an indifferent tone...it can make or break the entire joke.

[@InkaPley]

Very true. Excellent point.

[@robertreese5915]

Great comedy, love most of it just don’t understand the Yiddish words . Thanks for sharing the humor and yes it dose help to take away pain both physical and mental ‼️

[@InkaPley]

As I've embraced Yiddish and have recalled words my parents and grandparents would often say (although parents not brought up keeping Kosher),I have found a warm connection to it. There is a wonderful book called "The Joys of Yiddish" that is such a great collection of many words presented in a humorous yet understandable way you may enjoy.

[@harryrobertson3746]

'Mom say's it's for the shiva' joke - I heard this as a Welsh joke (- scones/funeral tea) around 30 years ago.

[@stuartlondres]

@@brentlofgren-noaafederal7041 Yyyyyh

[@chicagophile]

And I heard it as a Mexican joke - Tamales

[@mofomartianp]

This video gives a great deal of insight into the mind of jews.

[@beritbranch4949]

LETTER from Catskills-Laughter IS the BEST medicine. Love, Shecky.

[@ronmyers6527]

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[@InkaPley]

❤❤❤

[@rogermansour993]

ARCHIE BUNKER EULEGY FOR STRETCH CUNNINGHAM. ON ALL IN THE FAMILY TOTALLY HILARIOUS.

[@irmadoockler2690]

sound!

[@iracutler7139]

Lol , so thanx much 4 posting !

[@johnmartin4650]

Absolutely love those jokes

[@thrillscience]

The "he had a hat" joke also involves arguing/bargaining with G-d, which is a Jewish concept.

[@zvipatent]

Yes - great point

[@alizasanders3892]

I agree.

[@alizasanders3892]

I always think of when they are I the desert and they are COMPLAINING about the mana! Chutzpah!

[@davidisrael4018]

@POINTTWOFIVEMOA pray the best for everyone...in the Messiah who is to be our best friend and savior Isaiah 53 predicted of the one who says to love all people even our enemies

[@davidisrael4018]

yes pray...forgive my sins and enter my heart and be my best friend, amen... Find good humor in life. May i keep a smile on my face and my eyes open to reach my destination! The past is done, yet the present is open to a bright tomorrow. Live in the passion of life. Love and forgiveness go together. There is justice over evil. It all came together at the cross of life. Religions teach us how to pay for our sins. Abraham was told by God when he was about to offer his son for a sacrifice for sin "I will provide myself a sacrifice." How can God pay for our sins? Although more people are alive today, Yet., more have died in the last 100 years than in all the wars since the beginning of time. Yet, we can act like the teddy bear who doubts it can eat, because it thinks it is stuffed! Today for many reasons my Jewish people believe we can not know God as our friend which Moses declares Adam and Eve did, talking with God in the cool of the day. .doubt can keep us from completing the mission in life we have been given....amen...thanks David

[@Willam_J]

A Jewish boy says to his father “I need fifty dollars.” The father replies “Forty dollars! What do you need thirty dollars for?”

[@josereino62]

@@vertgriotte ...and share it with your brother (ended the version I heard in Spain like 40 years ago). Actually I think it went like this... Can I have fifty (pesetas)? ...40 pesetas!!! what do you need 30 pesetas for, if 20 should be more than enough? here are 10, and share it with your brother...

[@3xt1Collatz]

My dad does this too me! 😂

[@davidisrael4018]

@@3xt1Collatz we are the chosen to get the Messiah,

[@davidisrael4018]

Find good humor in life. May i as a Jew with the Messiah who states to love all people even our nenemies. He is my best friend as promised by Isaiah in chapter 53 "He will be despised by us and rejected and die as a lamb for our kippur/atonement for sin and rises to make intercession for us and offers to be our best friend. keep a smile on my face and my eyes open to reach my destination! The past is done, yet the present is open to a bright tomorrow. Live in the passion of life. Love and forgiveness go together. There is justice over evil. It all came together at the cross of life. Religions teach us how to pay for our sins. Abraham was told by God when he was about to offer his son for a sacrifice for sin "I will provide myself a sacrifice." How can God pay for our sins? Although more people are alive today, Yet., more have died in the last 100 years than in all the wars since the beginning of time. Yet, we can act like the teddy bear who doubts it can eat, because it thinks it is stuffed! Today for many reasons my Jewish people believe we can not know God as our friend which Moses declares Adam and Eve did, talking with God in the cool of the day. .doubt can keep us from completing the mission in life we have been given. thanks friend...shalom shalom.

[@ericah6546]

So accurate! 👍😂 (I have a Jewish godfather)

[@williamhelms9942]

Henny Youngman Joke: Two derilicts walking down the block in New York City, and one of the guys gets lost in the subway. His friend at the end waiting for him says to him as he reappears, "Hey! What happened to you?" The guy says, "Accidentally I wound up cutting through a guy's basement by mistake and what a hell of a set of model model trains he's got down there!"

[@foresthillvillagedentistry4558]

For how smart these panelists were for they could have provided as much in depth analysis

[@keineahnung6124]

Old Seymour is on his deathbed, almost gone ,with a whisper he asks: Rebecca are you here? Yes dear, right by your side David are you here too? Yes dad,just at your left side Sarah,are you also here? Yes father,I'm holding your hand. To this he says,then who is minding the f*****ng store?

[@Dan_The_Dude]

I can't get over the guy on the far right's laugh "he....he.....he"

[@JAHinHK]

Yes! I love that, but would love to know what's going on there.

[@leahstein7725]

@@JAHinHK l, .

[@shariklein5883]

A guy discovers a theft from his Sukka. Tells the cop, I have an alarm! How did he get in? Cop says, "There is a hole in the wall". Guy says, but it's less then 3 handbreaths!

[@albertnemiroff1502]

What really reveals one's age is finding one's self stepping on the punchlines.

[@nancya7289]

From what I observed, it wasn't the oldest panelist who was the most guilty of this behavior.

[@Laudon1228]

Sylvia and Irving, Jewish couple from Queens, it’s their 49th anniversary. Irving plans a big evening, he buys tickets for great seats at the hottest Broadway show, makes reservations at a three Michelin Star restaurant, and even rents a limousine. At the end of the night, in the limousine headed back over the 59th Street Bridge, Sylvia says “Irving, forty years we’ve been married now. After all this time, is there maybe something you’d want different or do different?” Irving thinks for a while and says “Sylvia, you’re my wife, I love you, we’ve been married forty years, but sometimes, when we’re making love, I want you should moan a little.” Sylvia thinks for a while and says “Irving, you’re my husband, I love you, we’ve been married forty years, for you I’ll moan.” So later that night they’re making love and Sylvia says “Now Irving?” “Not yet Sylvia.” A little later “_Now_ Irving?’, “Not yet Sylvia, I’ll tell you when!” A little later Irving shouts “Now Sylvia, now!” And Sylvia says puts a hand to her forehead and says “Oyyyyyy, the shopping I have to do!”

[@Eric31477]

HAHAHA...cute!

[@annakelman6627]

Guy on right is very very witty.

[@jimenabronfman6522]

The Jewish Mother gives his son two shirts. The next day, the son puts on one of the shirts. The Jewish Mother cries: What!!!!!! You didn't like the other shirt?

[@thetroublewithtrebles1362]

*gives _her_ son

[@jimenabronfman6522]

@@thetroublewithtrebles1362 Of course! My mistake!

[@citizen1163]

@@jimenabronfman6522 I didn't even notice. Funny joke though!

[@jimenabronfman6522]

@@citizen1163 Thank you! Always loved that joke on Yiddishe Mammas since I was a little girl!

[@citizen1163]

@@jimenabronfman6522 Aww, cute. I love Jewish humour but no good at remembering jokes. Your one I'm sure I'll remember! 😀 Thanks for sharing!

[@leonedimare2341]

Jewish American humor is just one rich part of American culture, just like corned beef on Saint Paddy's day, Black comedy, the Blues, Rock, Americana and Jazz music, films, Mexican-, Italian- and Chinese- American foods, the Universalist Church, industrial innovation, and mixed marriages. And any other creative fusion that I've accidentally left out.

[@InkaPley]

Indeed❤❤ Well-put!

[@Levi-lk6pm]

The joke said at 13:20 is based off the gemara (Talmud) in Maseches (tractate) Bava Metzia 59b

[@jacobs3671]

I’m not complaining but I do notice that it is just a natural phenomenon that the woman on stage has hard time getting a word in edge wise. But it’s ok because her suffering will be rewarded..🤣

[@ejb7969]

I noticed that within the first 20 minutes.

[@nancya7289]

@@ejb7969 She was quieter -- and not great with the joke delivery compared to my favorite guys. Now if Sarah Silverman had been participating, it would have been a completely different situation.

[@3xt1Collatz]

The biggest thing that surprised me in this video there’s 5 Jews on stage and the videos only 1 hour! 🙄🤪

[@InkaPley]

❤😂

[@TheBuzzCatt]

Is this a jewish joke? A Rabbit, a Minister and a Priest walk into a bar. The Rabbit says, "I think I'm a misprint."

[@annakelman6627]

Hahaha!!! 🐇🐰

[@InkaPley]

❤😂❤😂 I love that!

[@Albert-Plays-Roblox]

A joke that may not be Jewish, but i don’t think it would be offensive: a jewish family changes areas and the only school nearby is a catholic school, so their boy goes to the Catholic school. After a week, the boy comes home with a perfect A in his maths test, even though in his previous school he was not very strong in maths. His mom is amazed and asks him: “wow, how did you get this A in maths?” The boy answers: “well, as soon as you enter the school, you see this huge statue of a guy nailed on a plus sign, so I figured they take their maths extremely seriously’

[@InkaPley]

😂😂❤

[@InkaPley]

Definitely a Jewish joke

[@zvipatent]

Shpiel check: an App to correct your friend's Yiddish

[@InkaPley]

:)

[@ColKurtzknew]

Thinnest book in the Library of Congress ? Jewish sports legends. Second thinnest ? Great German Comedians. Badaboom.

[@InkaPley]

❤❤❤ sehr lustig!

[@ColKurtzknew]

@@InkaPley Danke

[@Historian212]

Sure wish the sound quality were better.

[@bjrnmgranvang1107]

Nobody could tell a joke like Ronad Reagan. He was the best. Oh, btw, my nickname used to be Shlimazel.

[@InkaPley]

Many of his jokes were originally Gorbachev's lol

[@bjrnmgranvang1107]

@@InkaPley That makes the even funnier.

[@misterghee1]

My canoe😂😂❤🎉🎉🎉

[@howardkoor9365]

Three Jewish jokes walk into a bar-mitzvah!

[@MrKellyHiggins]

Help! Help! My son, the doctor, is drowning!

[@barflytom3273]

This one from Portnoy must be the shortest and funniest.

[@MrKellyHiggins]

@@barflytom3273 The most economical joke ever. If Roth did nothing else, he'd be my hero just for this one.

[@misterghee1]

There is a Dutch movie help de dokter verzuipt mmmkay😅 got to tjek it again😊

[@InkaPley]

❤😂❤😂

[@spensert4933]

A bunch of brilliant people seem stumped by the subject.

[@Wilma1529]

I got a good one for ya'll. A young lady asks a rabbi, "Rabbi? How do you say preist in jewish"? Rabbi replies, "Cohen." Then the rabbi asks the young lady, "And what are you young lady"? She says, "I am a Rhoade Island Hen!"

[@shariklein5883]

i don't get it

[@dianedonohue9855]

I'm sorry. That one went over my yarmulke.

[@InkaPley]

Shucks. I'd love to understand it

[@elrolo3711]

All this reminiscing yet no mention of Jackie Mason, one of the greatest purest Jewish comics of all time?

Ladino humour is brilliant

[@howardkoor9365]

He had a hat!

[@jameswebb4593]

Josh decides to pay an unexpected visit to his pal Abe, Arriving at Abes house he walks straight in and theres Abe scraping paper off the wall. - Decorating said Josh - No moving.

[@windellsplawn8442]

Roses are REDDISH, Violets are BLUEISH, if it wasn't for Christmas we'd all be JEWISH. 😉

[@InkaPley]

❤😂❤😂

[@pnartg]

Old jokes get around so it's impossible to say what ethnic group told it first. The canoe joke was told long ago by Utah Philips. And the dying man and the kugel is a well known Lena and Ole (i.e., Scandinavian) joke, only in that version is was apple pie.

[@charlesyoung9980]

The lady in red looks like an older version of Mayim Bialik.

[@kshinokevin]

the gal from "Big Bang Theory," the "Beaches" film movie and "Blossom."

[@MrRichDavid]

How do you circumcise a whale? Four-skin Divers!

[@DaftSwank]

Bob Einstein should’ve been part of this panel.

[@richardhoff1626]

Well yes, but he would have had to have a 8 second delay. "...Oh, it's different when it's your mother!"

[@dirkcampbell5847]

The joke about the man on his deathbed who wants to eat kugel. This is a Sussex joke. The old man is on his deathbed and he says to his wife 'I'd really like some of that ham on the table there.' She says 'No you can't, we'm savin that for your funeral.' OK maybe it's originally Jewish.

[@svendhansen5427]

No joke, My father-in-law asked, the day before he dies, knowing it's a good bye, his spause to go get three bottles of beer to share, as the last drink with me and his own daughter. His girlfriend, a wealthy woman and farm owner, brings cheap supermarket beer and Villy says " But there is real Tuborg in the house" "They are for when having guests" was the answer. Next day as he died she replaced the new pillow the undertaker had put in the coffin, wiith an old one. She placed the bouquet of flowers from his chest, in her own vase, so that they did not go to waste. She had spent his hard earned money saving her own.

[@dianedonohue9855]

I've heard it using cookies.

[@deplant5998]

Fran Drescher brought Yiddish to the world.

[@InkaPley]

Which world? Lol

[@Levi-lk6pm]

Next time you should get Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

[@peterhall6656]

British comedian Jimmy Carr tells this one live: " Safety in numbers ...tell that to the Jews!... What, too soon?"

[@keineahnung6124]

That's cold!

[@michael-gs6kh]

Here are what I consider typically Jewish jokes A blind guy is given a Matzo, he runs his fingers over it & asks "Who wrote this rubbish?" A flasher jumps out in front of a little old Jewish woman & opens his raincoat, she takes one look & says " you call that a lining?" Teacher asks a 5 year old Jewish kid "What is 2 + 2, the kids asks "What are we doing buying or selling?" Sadie meets her friend Rachel pushing her twin babies in their pram, Sadie peers in to the pram & exclaims what lovely babies! Rachel reply's this ones the doctor &that ones the violinist" A little old Jewish man in a retirement Home asks a little old Jewish Woman "Would you like Super Sex she thinks he is suggesting "Soup or Sex" & replies "I'll have the Soup!"

[@tigerdicky8096]

EVERBODY WANTS TO BE A COMEDIAN!

[@InkaPley]

In our world,everybody HAS to be a comedian,my friend ❤

[@zvipatent]

In the early days of the kibbutz, they had a common dining hall, a common children’s house, and also a common shower; the latter was a shed divided in two, with separate sides for men and women. In one of the showers at the kibbutz there was a hole in the separating wall, through which the women could peek into the men’s side, but they could only see the men from the waist down. Once when the women were taking their showers, one of them said to another “I think I can hear your husband on the other side”. The other woman peeks through the hole and says “No, that’s not my husband”. The first woman also peeks and says “you’re right, he’s not you husband!”. Then the prettiest one takes a peek and exclaims “he’s not even from our kibbutz!”

[@hanochbernath6630]

That one is a variant of the country club joke.

[@hankbern]

I have

[@diederikwolsak9231]

Could it be that the influence is actually from the Dutch days? Dutch and Jewish humour are s closely related and the general NY chutzpah is definitely Dutch.

[@InkaPley]

Yiddish is largely in part constructed of Old German. Ashkenazi have resided in that part of the world many hundreds of years so I can see some blending. Hence,the Kugel,the brotchen etc....

[@debbiestarman4485]

The sound levels on this is terrible. You can't hear the one guy talking so I turn it up, then when he's done, the emcee BLARES through my speaker. The guy sitting next to the emcee is whispering.

[@InkaPley]

Welcome, friend😂❤

[@jimkahn957]

However, the joke with the punch line, "He had a hat!" has been argued about for decades...Jews claim it as theirs and Catholics claim it as theirs...that's makes it even funnier...don't ask me why, but it's does!

[@InkaPley]

That's like comparing a bear and a Turkey in a bear costume and saying they are both really great at being bears lol I agree though,funny nonetheless

[@InkaPley]

P.S. the Catholic would have to have a priest third party present lol We have priority access to talk to G*d directly ;)

[@howardkoor2796]

He had a hat ...

[@ericah6546]

The interview interrupts too much. I know he's trying to keep it flowing but it messes up the flow more so.

[@InkaPley]

Lol. Hello, have you met us darling?

[@janetta98]

Interesting point re: use of Yiddish terms on rise as actual use of Yiddish language dies out.

[@zvipatent]

I think that will only go so far, of course.

[@hank1519]

And it is now being taught in universities. But that can-t revive the culture

[@saminabinet]

Because it wants to.

[@kimsherlock8969]

IT Heart's. Please remember Jewish PEOPLE were not the outsiders , we were all different and outside if the Mould didnt fit. NOT just u stronger, but the others too screaming to be heard suffering isn't your story alone ,many humans suffer and are not Jewish

[@wescampbell1768]

Some of this real gutter stuff. The master Myron Cohen outdoes many of them and nothing below the belt!

[@chrismiles8822]

Volume is too low.

[@darkfeather6857]

I'm not a Jew, I just stumbled on this, but the last guy on the right who mumbles and then says, "Ah, uh, ah, uh" at the end of every joke, is that a Jewish thing?

[@joelhencken]

No that I know of. Altho some of that style would certainly be used if the character in a joke was a schlemiel (a klutz, the guy who's always spilling the soup on you)

[@khalpernia1943]

Apparently, it's a Calvin Trilling thing. Not evident in his writing.

[@joelhencken]

khalpernia1943 yes, I was surprised to see him in person. Not at all what I’d imagined. Good thing I read him first, I guess.

[@corneliakoller-xv9yl]

Support local

[@jlondon158]

Why is the stage right guy trying to attack humor as politically incorrect? The reason good jokes are good is they require intelligence both in telling and listening . The dull humor comes from political wokeness ( in telling ) and ignorant / dumbed down audiences .

[@viksra]

11:39 admagation? what is that

[@jackkomisar458]

She meant "abnegation". It is sell-denial or renunciation of oneself.

[@viksra]

Thank you. Waited a year for an answer from someone, but I got the answer!

[@7550375503]

Why label jokes - funny stories -quips - idioms etc. as Jewish ?

[@James-gk8ip]

Jews invented humor of course.

[@misterghee1]

The biggotsttt eh biggest joke is were all Jews with Mongolian viking blood bruh

[@annweiszmann3946]

W

[@cultfan5227]

Too bad all ethnic groups don't relieve past suffering with humor .

[@swampdong2058]

This is no "Screaming About Israel".

[@alexgoslar4057]

The truth about Jewish jokes come out.

[@rogerlewis7770]

As a black man I wz told yrs ago that blacks sing Jews tell jokes

[@agnesszeben9999]

Roger Lewis r

[@farswept]

kewl

[@lordeden2732]

so where does that leave Sammy Davis Jnr1

[@farswept]

@@lordeden2732 tap dancing?

[@rogerlewis7770]

@@lordeden2732 lol very funny

[@jamming8519]

I'm still waiting for the punch line!

[@blessedinHishands]

Why is it ok to speak against and ridicule Christians or Christianity when it is considered a hate crime to all other religious groups? Have you noticed?

[@texastinman2189]

They call them JOKES. Jokes, okay? They are told with love, not with hatred. THAT is the difference.

[@PianoMeSasha]

Egyptians are the humorians of the arab world, famous for their humor. you cant just automatically say jewish humor comes from suffering. first of, btw, for you eurocentrics, you are speaking of ashkenasi humor, not jewish humor, per se....dont know if morrocan, iranian, bene israel, or turkish jews are known for humor (or not.)....but we also know that jews were literate, born to kvetch and born to argue, factor in high intelligence, it could as well be . that....the Brits are pretty darn fun....me thinks we make too much of fetish out of the "five thousand yeahs of suffering" angle.

[@dalereynolds7638]

I was once in an afternoon bar in Connecticut and a well dressed businessman came in and said, "I just got back from New York. I met a woman. I asked to spend some time with her, you know. 'I'm a lesbian.' she said. 'So?' I said, 'What's new in Beirut?'

[@hankbern]

A hassid ic man with a frog on his shoulder walks into a bar in Montana. The bartender asks him "where did you get that?" The frog replies. "In Borough Park, there are lots of them there!" Two men from Arkansas get off the bus in Grand Central Station in New York. They see hassidic men dressed in traditional garb, One asks the other "Do you see them. What are they?". the other answers " Hassidim" . the first says " Ha see them too but what are they?"

[@menachemmendellieberman5298]

Hanoch Bernath this is not the type of joke u can write out it should be told in person

[@zvipatent]

Everyone's a critic.

[@hankbern]

you are quite correct ir. but this is the biggest audience Ivèe ever had.

[@hanochbernath6630]

@@menachemmendellieberman5298 so, come to toronto, I'll be glad to tell it to you in person!

[@nycphillie]

The sound quality is awful. Could not watch it. Even if sound was good, I could not bear more than 5 serconds of Jeff Toobin.

[@James-gk8ip]

fine scholar

[@helenrobinson2039]

I can barely hear some of these people talking

[@7andrea2]

Toobin..such a joke

[@carver3419]

They can't really tell a joke.

[@phildehli9399]

H

[@brucedoherty9979]

I’m

[@jimmatteson8447]

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[@MrRichDavid]

Your sound is too soft. Barely audible.

[@infectdiseaseepidemiology2599]

It’s really a hearing test. You need hearing aids!

[@MrRichDavid]

@@infectdiseaseepidemiology2599 I have hearing aids. I don't need them for this. The sound is now OK....it was weak when I listened to this before. Hope you don't diagnose other people until you have examined them.

[@zes7215]

wrg, cepuxuax, say, laux etc any nmw and any s perfx

[@ddilink]

If you don't have knowledge of the culture, you will not get the jokes.

[@PianoMeSasha]

christ. whoever the first wooden guy is, should never ever again try to tell a joke...oy..

[@Mr.Swann.]

@Pallathur1917 .. "Christ !" & "Oy .. !" .. in the same sentence .. 'VEY !', .. have YOU got a problem !!'