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The episode's co-writer, Peter Mehlman, got the inspiration for the episode's Jerry story when an old friend of his made a Jewish joke.Mehlman felt momentarily offended, but then remembered that his friend had converted to Judaism 20 years before, and started to wonder if it had taken that long for his friend to feel comfortable making Jewish jokes.
The tradition of humor in Judaism dates back to the compilation of the Torah and the Midrash in the ancient Middle East, but the most famous form of Jewish humor consists of the more recent stream of verbal and frequently anecdotal humor of Ashkenazi Jews which took root in the United States during the last one hundred years, it even took root in secular Jewish culture.
Some People With Jokes is a BBC Four comedy series where members of the public tell jokes, first broadcast in 2013 and 2014. The programme is billed with a different title for each episode. It is based on the format of the earlier BBC Four series Old Jews Telling Jokes, [1]
A category for comedians, TV shows or films that include notable aspects of Jewish culture. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 ...
Old Jews Telling Jokes is a web series [1] launched in 2009 created and directed by Sam Hoffman and produced by Eric Spiegelman and Tim Williams for Jetpack Media, Inc. It has since gone on to garner millions of unique views over several original series shot in places like New York, Los Angeles and Boca Raton.
Chelmers plotting to capture the Moon in a barrel. The Wise Men of Chelm (Yiddish: די כעלמער חכמים, romanized: Di Khelemer khakhomim) are foolish Jewish residents of the Polish city of Chełm, a butt of Jewish jokes, similar to other towns of fools: the English Wise Men of Gotham, German Schildbürger, Greek residents of Abdera, or Finnish residents of the fictional town of Hymylä.
Despite their adverse relationship in earlier episodes, in "The Wink" he tells George that he is his only friend at the Yankees office. Mr. Tomasulo (played by Gordon Jump) – George's boss at "Play Now" in episodes 1 and 2 of Season 9, "The Butter Shave" and "The Voice". Mrs. Landis (played by Gail Strickland) – A boss at Doubleday. She ...
In March 2019 Esther Voet, a columnist of a respected Dutch Jewish weekly NIW announced that she was moving to Israel, where "getting called a dirty Jew simply means I have to take a bath", complaining about the rise of anti-Semitism in the country. Later she announced that it was a Purim prank, but not earlier than her announcement made waves ...