On This First Night Of Chanukah --- Who Is The Funniest Jew Of All-Time?

[THUNDER HANDS]

(a) The Marx Bros.

(b) Woody Allen

(c) Jack Benny

(d) Rodney Dangerfield

(e) Buddy Hackett

(f) Andy Kaufman

(g) Don Rickles

(h) Jerry Seinfeld

(i) Mel Brooks

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Happy Chanukah folks! :)

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. oops

I'm sorry...wrong forum..please move. :)

but thanks for voting anyway... :D

[tridim]

2. Jon Stewart

and Al Franken.

[Breezy du Nord]

38. Oh, definitely

nt

[He loved Big Brother]

41. Indeed

Jon Stewart was my first thought. He did an Esquire interview that they let him "proofread" with a red pen, leaving the proofred marks in...and the interviewer said "Jon has a poster of Niel Diamond in his office", to which he said "It's actually Lenny Bruce, but we all look the same to you people".

[PSR40004]

3. Lenny Bruce?

Was he jewish?

[ronzo]

30. Yeah he was.

He's the first name that came to my mind.

[HEyHEY]

4. Jack Benny

LOve him

[imhotep]

5. the 3 Stooges

.

[Bonobo]

6. How about Pee Wee Herman?

[Fla_Democrat]

7. No Adam Sandler?

:wtf:

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. What about Franken, Radner, and Lovitz

from SNL?

[JohnKleeb]

9. Lovitz is Jewish?

Why am I always the last one to find out? and I had no idea it started tonight but then again I am not Jewish so duh.

[rucky]

15. Even if Lovitz isn't really Jewish, he's Jewish

you should see the secret memos we send out

Happy Hanukkah!

[JohnKleeb]

18. So we're all Jewish tonight I guess

Thanks, but I am a dirty little papist :D you know what I mean, Happy Hanukkah to all my Jewish comrades and friends.

[ajacobson]

25. I love Jon Stewart's line the other night

when he was interviewing the guy that starred in the movie "The Hebrew Hammer"--

"you are the most Jew-y person I know"

I laugh everytime I think of that. As my grandmother would say "oy, so full of vitsen (wisecracks) that one."

[JohnKleeb]

26. and I thought I was the only one who said oy lol

Thats funny.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

39. John, you need to get out more, dude.

Oy is the second most popluar word in NYC. Close behind it's relative, Yo.

[JohnKleeb]

43. I am not in NYC often :( bumma

I use oy to mean oh or ok, I Dont know what I mean :D half of the time. oy I so weird.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

10. Mel Brooks hands down!

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

45. I finally saw the Producers

Always been a fan of the movie, and finally got to see the show. It holds up pretty well too.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. Mel!

Go rent "Silent Movie".

[VelmaD]

12. Gotta go with Mel Brooks

"The Inquisition" song from History of the World Part 1 is still the funniest goddamn thing I've ever seen or heard in my entire life.

[Darranar]

13. Al Franken.

[AlFrankenFan]

33. ditto

and close behind him Adam Sandler

[VOX]

14. S. J. Perelman, who wrote *for* the Marx Bros.

Legendary humorist and absolute genius. REad anything by him, you will not be sorry!

A few notable Perelman quotes:

"Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring."

"There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me."

{On God}"Whom you doubtless remember as that quaint old subordinate of General Douglas MacArthur"

"I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing."

[sleepyhead]

35. Beat me to it, rezmutt!

Perelman is the greatest wordsmith ever. Wish I could write 1/10 as well - he did some breathtaking stunts with the English language!

[CShine]

16. Some names that should've been included and weren't.

George Burns

Milton Berle

Rita Rudner

Walter Matthau

Jackie Mason

Sid Caesar

Danny Kaye

Fanny Brice

Carl Reiner

Bette Midler

Billy Crystal

Albert Brooks

Joan Rivers

Alan King

Neil Simon

[supernova]

17. Gilda Radner

RIP those who made us laugh; your work lives on.... I was a HUGE Milton Berle fan when I was little. :D

[FloridaJudy]

29. I'm seconding Gilda

....never mind

[Philostopher]

24. As soon as I saw the subject line, I thought of

Alan King.

Robert Klein shouldn't be forgotten, either. His routine on "Merchant Of Venice" was one of the funniest -- and most poignant -- things I've ever seen.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

40. Great list

Are there any Jews who are not funny?

Well, other than my Uncle Moishe, that is.

[NightTrain]

19. Anyone remember Allan Sherman?

Hello mudduh, hello faddah,
here I am at Camp Granada.

[jpgray]

20. Groucho had the best comedic voice (nt)

[elperromagico]

21. What about the Platters?!?

Sorry... wrong thread.

[absyntheNsugar]

22. Jerry Seinfeld????

He couldn't joke his way out of a paper BOX! Sure he had a good TV show, but his standup is boring beyond repair! How many times are we going to hear about the fricken peanuts on airplanes!

Now let's talk Lenny Bruce (yes he was Jewish), let's talk the dark horses of Jewish comedy. I'd even be willing to say Howard Stern was funnier than Seinfeld (yeah - he's a Libertarian nutjob, but sometimes he can be ON.)

[Norbert]

23. GROUCHO!

'nuff said.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

27. Mel Brooks

I like Woody Allen too.

[mitchum]

28. Lenny Bruce, but the FIRST Jewish comic was Cain...

"What? Am I my brother's keeper?" The origins of schtick...

[AntiCoup2K4]

31. Yeah, but God was a "tough room"

Cain's material didn't go over too well with Him.

[Michigander4Dean]

32. You forgot someone:

[devilgrrl]

34. Henny Youngman, Myron Cohen, Jackie Mason...

George Burns, Sid Caesar, etc...

[Kat45]

36. What about Andrew Silverstein.....

aka Andrew Dice Clay. :D

[Kamika]

37. Mel isn't funny anylonger

I admit the 60s and 70s were incredible but after that he just did stupid parodies..


Marx brothers were great.. if you just forget the movies they did "after" they said they were quitting. I think they did them because the guy that played the piano (gepetto?) got some gamblin problems and oved some gangsters money.

Woody Allen is great aswell.

Seinfeldt isn't really funny.. his show was pure genious but he's lame as a standup comedian.

Joe Lieberman makes me laugh some too btw :p

[everythingsxen]

42. Lewis Black

:D

[Guaranteed]

44. I dunno bout "funniest," but Kaufman

was freakin' brilliant. That guy was one in a billion.