How Did Jews Come to Dominate American Comedy?

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  • Everyone knows Jews are funny. But the question is, why? With a history fraught with trauma and persecution, the Jewish people have historically used humor as a “release valve,” and even as a tool of survival. Jews have used their outsider status and the distinctive characteristics of Jewish humor - self-deprecation, challenging authority, and audacity - to rise disproportionately in the American comedy scene.
    * Correction -- Writer: Adi Elbaz
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    00:46 Humor in ancient Jewish texts?
    02:42 Jewish persecution in the Diaspora
    03:34 The Jewish Enlightenment and "outsider" status
    05:14 Fiddler on the Roof
    05:56 Sigmund Freud's theory on humor
    06:34 Unpacking intergenerational trauma with comedy
    06:55 So-called "chosenness"
    08:45 Self-deprecation
    09:42 Anti-authoritarian and audacious comedy
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  • @144Donn
    @144Donn 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    One of the lightest videos on a heavy topic! Well done..and may we turn this month of Av from sadness to joy!

    • @kathleenking47
      @kathleenking47 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Don't forget
      ISAAC!! (YITZAK)
      it means...LAUGHTER
      1st JEW
      Sort of

    • @LakeTurtles
      @LakeTurtles 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@kathleenking47 It really means "he will laugh" or something like that (the translation to "laughter" is an error) but yeah...

  • @milascave2
    @milascave2 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    "I guess you had to be there."
    That joke is a layer deeper than it first seems to be.
    The point is that when the holocaust happened, many Jews felt that God had deserted them, or lost their faith completely.
    They felt that God was no there.

  • @edwardwong654
    @edwardwong654 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

    There is no debate on this. My ex-wife is Jewish and she is really funny, sarcastic and has perfect timing. When we were engaged, I asked her if she wanted me to convert to Judaism. Her reply was, "No, we don't want you."

    • @erikstekelenburg3020
      @erikstekelenburg3020 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      😂

    • @adambrodman6229
      @adambrodman6229 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      😂

    • @johnmockingyou7547
      @johnmockingyou7547 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      🤣 hope that ain't the reason why she's your EX 🖖🏻

    • @ed.z.
      @ed.z. 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That is very funny.

    • @theultimatereductionist7592
      @theultimatereductionist7592 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      WHAT THE F does being "Jewish" mean ANYWAY? Am I jewish? Isn't it supposed to be a religion?
      It's funny that judaism is the only religion that doesn't seem to know it's a religion. Like, aren't you supposed to believe in a single god or something, and that's it, right? 99% of the entertainers I see big media claim are "jewish" I am highly skeptical.
      Just like ANY meaningless useless worthless unfalsifiable untestable association, you are a member of this assocation if you SAY you are. So, if you SAY you are jewish, then you're jewish. If you say you are not jewish, then you are not jewish.
      NOBODY HAS ANY POWER OR AUTHORITY TO FORCE YOU TO BE jewish or not jewish. Don't care wtf your breeders chose to classify themselves as: if you say you are jewish then you are. If you say you are not then you are not. Period.

  • @Mercenary-1914
    @Mercenary-1914 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    Jewish people and Black People are top notch when it comes to comedy. Also, people who grew up in the struggle make very good comedians regardless of Ethnicity, or Color

    • @RasMajnouni
      @RasMajnouni 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "Blacks" Nebbich"

    • @milascave2
      @milascave2 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      mercenary: True.
      One night I saw a lot of really, awful open mike stand-up comedy. The, a guy stepped up who was both black and fat. I thought, "I bet he's going to be funny." And I was right.
      Baiscly, the more you've had going against you, the funnier you are going to be. Not always, but often.

    • @RasMajnouni
      @RasMajnouni 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      pain and strife is worthless when they are animal level.Cats and dogs also suffer but what have the afro americans added to humanity? Nothing but sludge

    • @JehudaEwert
      @JehudaEwert 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      jjews and blacks - according to hebrew israelites everyone back is "the real ews", which would whiten all Minhag Limba,Minhhag Falasha,Minhaf Abajudaja and Minhag Igbo.However, my family is documented to have been inn Europe since the year 743, in 1930 we had been according to the german government black byy bastardisation, until arround 2010 I was "middle eastern-oriental" and eseciay since BLM I am now white. - I argue we're not funny, but the kind of being described is (if you have sense for abstruse sarcasti humor) is very funny.

    • @johnmockingyou7547
      @johnmockingyou7547 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Aye, agree 100%!

  • @philipnestor5034
    @philipnestor5034 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    A little boy said to his mother,
    Mama when I grow up I want to be a comedian.
    The mother says… Don’t make me laugh!

    • @kathleenking47
      @kathleenking47 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Old time comedians even used Yiddish bad words
      However, US didn't know them
      So they got around the censors
      Don Rickles with schmuck
      (Family jewels, dickhead)

  • @RafaelRabinovich
    @RafaelRabinovich 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    You're missing the true author of Eastern European Jewish humor. Before Sholem Aleichem there was a badchan at the shul of R. Boruch of Mezhybuzh: Reb Herschel of Ostropol.

    • @BreslovStrummer
      @BreslovStrummer 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes definitely!
      And also Chasidic master Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (nephew of Boruch of Medzhibuz), his books are full of hilarious witty remarks, plus he emphasized over & over again that to attain “mitzvah gedolah lihiyot b’Simcha tamid” that every day a Jew has to make silly faces & silly voices & utilize words of humor (Sh’tut d’Kedusha)
      : )

  • @LlyleHunter
    @LlyleHunter 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    A Jewish kid says to his grandfather: Grandpa I need fifty dollars
    The grandfather says: Forty dollars! What do you need thirty dollars for?
    Bruce Solomon

  • @a.hoctavius5848
    @a.hoctavius5848 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I was literally just asking myself this question a few hours ago. After all, Fran Dresher has been in the media A LOT at the moment and the Nanny is hilarious!

    • @ed.z.
      @ed.z. 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Fran Dresher is the elected President of The Screen Actors Guild of America (and beyond) a brilliant leader chosen by the members.
      She’s a talented actor who can play funny. she’s probably funny whenever she wants to be.

  • @philipnestor5034
    @philipnestor5034 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I think that certain groups of people who have been persecuted either for their race, religion or nationality created their own humor as a survival technique. Blacks, Jewish, Irish, Italians all have great comics. It reminds me of a joke a comic once said… The Jewish comics make fun of the Jews, The black conics make fun of the Blacks, The Italian comics make fun of the Italians, do you know why there aren’t any white Anglo Saxon Protestant comics? Because there’s nothing funny about them!
    Of course this joke is just a generalization which comedy is based on.

    • @berts558
      @berts558 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The truth is everything about them is hilarious but they'll hunt you down and kill you if you make fun of them unlike the rest of us so it tends to be avoided I guess what I'm saying is say have no sense of humour

  • @19mindmechanic55
    @19mindmechanic55 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Of course you can't cover everyone, but just a suggestion - Lenny Bruce was the father of modern stand-up comedy.

  • @colinswartz6022
    @colinswartz6022 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Great analysis. I'd add that Jews place a high value on education, and smart humor is great humor. Also, Jews were historically shut out of a lot of professions, so excelled where they could get jobs or create jobs, finance, writing, entertainment, comedy. The best Jewish jokes are from Jews. All the good Jewish jokes I know are from my uncle Louie.

    • @bryanutility9609
      @bryanutility9609 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Their humor amounts to disgusting poop jokes & hatred of the host culture. They suck.

  • @GoshenPrepping
    @GoshenPrepping 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Once again... Great video! Thanks @Unpacked!

  • @u2bAriel
    @u2bAriel 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Hey anyone who really knows the Torah and Talmud can tell you that it's peppered with all kinds of humor. It can be pretty subtle though

  • @wilburmay3602
    @wilburmay3602 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Where’s the Mizrahi vs Sephardic culture video? Wasn’t there supposed to be a video of this in July?

  • @Hoziah
    @Hoziah 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Tragedy + Time = Humor

  • @cheskyherskowits
    @cheskyherskowits 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Regarding what you point out that the tolmod isn't funny we do see some reference that the rabbi were engaging in Homer like דרבה מקמי דפתח להו לרבנן אמר מילתא דבדיחותא ובדחי רבנן
    Which translates rabh before he started with the students he said a joke and the students were laughing

    • @saraleigh5336
      @saraleigh5336 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed, the Talmud has a great deal of wit and intentional absurdity in it. Dry humor.

  • @ericfeman442
    @ericfeman442 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    No mention of the old time comedians.
    Marx brothers three stooges jack benny Eddie canter and many others from that era.

    • @19mindmechanic55
      @19mindmechanic55 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Marx Brothers are featured quite a bit in the film clips

  • @bp6877
    @bp6877 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    This was a brilliant and insightful commentary, one of the best on this channel!

  • @mossman672
    @mossman672 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    loved jacki mason

  • @zwh99
    @zwh99 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    My Sunday school teacher told me about this channel

    • @abrahammorrison6374
      @abrahammorrison6374 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A hockey goalie retires and became a Roman Catholic priest. He has you to pray to the Father, the Son and the Goalie Host.😂😂😊😊

  • @josephonwhidbey
    @josephonwhidbey 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Does anybody know of any Swiss comedians ? Me neither !

  • @anamariaguadayol2335
    @anamariaguadayol2335 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Hey! We are a funny people!

    • @kathleenking47
      @kathleenking47 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There's DRY HUMOR too
      I took my mom with me to my OBGYN when I was pregnant.
      He'd make my mom laugh, but I didn't get it😋

  • @Joseph27867
    @Joseph27867 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    In the Talmud it says you should start every learning session with a joke

  • @asherzeiger9490
    @asherzeiger9490 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As is generally the case with Unpacked, this was excellent.
    However, I would like to point out one point with which I disagree - the Torah and the Talmud have a lot more humor than most of us give them credit for having. Not out-and out "jokes," but very subtle and very funny humorous bits.
    Yasher Koach (as usual)!

  • @Lllmmlammm-eh6uc
    @Lllmmlammm-eh6uc 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Tragedy, comedy?
    Jews: Yes

  • @shainazion4073
    @shainazion4073 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 this one was good.

  • @alg11297
    @alg11297 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    When people tell me there is no such thing as Jewish humor I says, Compare a Marx Brothers movie to a Bob Hope 'comedy"

    • @DenisMark1
      @DenisMark1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It should be remembered that practically all of Bob Hope's writers were Jewish - Mel Shavelson, Mort Lachman, Larry Gelbart...

    • @alg11297
      @alg11297 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@DenisMark1 oh...I thought he wrote his own bad jokes. Why were his films so lame?

    • @DenisMark1
      @DenisMark1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@alg11297 I think they were relics of their time. If you're referring to the "Road" movies, they were considered quite hip when they came out, with the constant breaking the fourth wall and seeming ad libs and inside jokes. The views of women and other cultures are so out of date now and offensive, but they were just reflecting the common views of most Americans, sadly.
      While I am partial to Jewish comedy writers (being one myself) I think one has to point out not only geniuses like Richard Pryor and pre-scandal Bill Cosby, but even goyish comedians like George Carlin, Steve Martin, Bob Newhart and Jonathan Winters.
      And, to be fair, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson (who can also be considered retrograde today but influenced so many comedians) Jay Leno and David Letterman all strived for a certain "Jewishness" in their delivery. It's a lot to pack into a short video, but of course the subject is quite fascinating - in the late fifties and early sixties, when Jewish-ness was considered hip - think Lenny Bruce, Allen Sherman leading into Woody Allen and Mel Brooks. Up until then, most Jewish comedians who wanted to work more than the Catskills changed their names, and became "mainstream." Jewishness really didn't become "hip" again until Seinfeld. Or at least it seemed to me.

  • @micheleventuroni2080
    @micheleventuroni2080 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    0:43 maybe not naturally but predominantly funny.

  • @ambientsoothingsounds44
    @ambientsoothingsounds44 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Sacha Baron Cohen, That is all 😅

  • @erikstekelenburg3020
    @erikstekelenburg3020 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'm from the Netherlands and i agree. Back in the old days we had incredible funny ones. Sharp as a knife, sarcastic like hell and always making a fool out of themselves 😂

    • @ed.z.
      @ed.z. 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I loved my visit to the Netherlands. But, obviously the funny ones were no longer. At least they had jazz music. And sex. Which could have been nice if there were more humor.

    • @saraleigh5336
      @saraleigh5336 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Not sure if you intended to say something insulting, but you do realize that this is insulting, no?

  • @stevenlindstrom8457
    @stevenlindstrom8457 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    How about the prophet Eliyahu (Elijah) making fun of the pagan prophets of baal praying to their god? I Kings 18:27:
    "And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened."

  • @MehWhatever99
    @MehWhatever99 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I disagree that our foundational, religious, writings don’t have humor. Sure, it’s not 10 laughs a page. But for documents that are supposed to deal with serious, deep eternal reality type issues, they have more than their fair share of humor. You don’t see too many Supreme Court opinions peppered with jokes. But it’s never surprising to find humor in the pages of the Talmud.
    I think humor has always been part of the fabric of our lives. It’s always been a part of our strength.

  • @yodorob
    @yodorob 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What's totally missing from this video is that it's a description of why *Ashkenazi* Jews (mainly of Eastern European origin) have dominated comedy for the past 100 years or so. There's no discussion whatsoever of Sephardi or Mizrahi Jewish (of Mediterranean, North African, and Middle Eastern origin) humour, if there is any such thing.

    • @tagbarzeev8283
      @tagbarzeev8283 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Jewish Diaspora groups don't come from Europe. Like all Diaspora groups we come from the Levant

    • @yodorob
      @yodorob 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tagbarzeev8283 On an ultimate level, dating back 2-3 millennia, that's true. But I'm talking about descent from the past number of centuries - in Europe, the entire Mediterranean, and elsewhere.

  • @BreslovStrummer
    @BreslovStrummer 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Thanks great video overall but NOT true about lack of humor in Talmud (Gemara)…..
    Talmud is 63 huge books (tractates) and it’s full of the most WITTY humor & the most brilliantly absurd comedic scenarios, of any book in the universe! - that on most days of the daily Daf Yomi of Talmud I literally laugh out loud….
    Talmudic humor is in a superb category of its own, as it is after all Divine Humor!

    • @adambrodman6229
      @adambrodman6229 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Amen to that

    • @hrvatskinoahid1048
      @hrvatskinoahid1048 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@antonheidenreich7053 It says righteous Gentiles are like a High Priest.

    • @saraleigh5336
      @saraleigh5336 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Agreed.

  • @Alexandra36968
    @Alexandra36968 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the thing is that everyone is Jewish - as it is where religion began.
    but than other philosophical idea took root ,and some of the people started to believe in them ,while call it "a new religion:

  • @debshaw2490
    @debshaw2490 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Gracho Marx was at a hotel with his not jewish wife and their daughter.The child was going into the pool and was told no jews allowed So he said can she ho half way in?😂😂😂😂

  • @ed.z.
    @ed.z. 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    When I was in Yugoslavia for a winter, I noticed the lack of humor. Then, I remember they might have killed all the funny people. And the scholars.and their best musicians. Along with all their culture, except hate, superstition, conspiracy theories, and passion.
    Then, there was a rebellion. No more Yugoslavia.

    • @DegreesOfThree
      @DegreesOfThree 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That got dark real quick 😂

    • @hrvatskinoahid1048
      @hrvatskinoahid1048 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yugoslavia was a period of Serbian imperialism and despotism. Never again.

    • @User_32
      @User_32 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There it is. Jews think they are superior. Thanks for reminding everyone.

    • @Johnny69xxx
      @Johnny69xxx หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@hrvatskinoahid1048🤡

  • @tonyrains8822
    @tonyrains8822 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Father also says not to mock Him

  • @kablanetkablanet989
    @kablanetkablanet989 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Correcting a small mistake Jesus was never a Christian
    He was from Nazareth - the word Christian in English comes from the word Messiah in English which in Hebrew means anointed with anointing oil.
    Thus even the products = the messiahs who were murdered in the amphitheater in Rome were actually Jews who called themselves messiahs -

  • @adambrodman6229
    @adambrodman6229 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I beg to differ . Have you read the story of purim? The torah is filled with Irony and wittiness. The talmud has jokes all over . This humor is the dark side of things . My rabbis are the funniest people on the planet hands down

  • @zg104
    @zg104 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Soviet Russian language satirical and humorous stage was also dominated by Ashkenazi Jews as authors and often presenters

    • @NBrioDaZueraRules
      @NBrioDaZueraRules 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      no it wasn't, jewbolthink is thoughtcrime

  • @jimeneztech50
    @jimeneztech50 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    No mention of vaudeville????

    • @saraleigh5336
      @saraleigh5336 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Or of the Catskills… this isn’t very place or institution specific. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @jimdellavecchia4594
    @jimdellavecchia4594 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    No better example than KRUSTY THE CLOWN!!

    • @deborahfreedman333
      @deborahfreedman333 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Or rather his creator, Matt Groening, who went to the same high school my daughters attended, Lincoln HS in Portland.

  • @secondexodus9105
    @secondexodus9105 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My guess is that Ashkenazi have more access to media

    • @saraleigh5336
      @saraleigh5336 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What does this mean?

    • @secondexodus9105
      @secondexodus9105 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@saraleigh5336 back during Jim Crow, many Ashkenazi played black face caricatures that dehumanized Juduaic American descendants of slaves.

  • @davidkleinthefamousp
    @davidkleinthefamousp 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The line about "any club that would let me in" wasn't an Allen original; Groucho was ahead. Re: Heine, it's a mistake to say he wasn't a Jew. Judaism's not religion, it's family. You can't negate your status as a brother or son.

  • @Jake60k
    @Jake60k 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I feel like Ashkenazi are more comfortable with self deprecating humor than sephardi

  • @BakaraMakaraMakarna
    @BakaraMakaraMakarna 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I want to ask a question. Can someone who is Turkish and Muslim be Jewish? Or do we always remain Gohim?
    אני רוצה לשאול שאלה. האם מישהו טורקי ומוסלמי יכול להיות יהודי? או שאנחנו תמיד נשארים גוהים?

    • @starfish1936
      @starfish1936 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jews don't worship mohomed.

    • @michellelansky4490
      @michellelansky4490 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well anyone can convert if they really want to but Judaism doesn't proselytize or persuade conversion. It's only if the person is committed and really wants to

  • @theultimategamer9240
    @theultimategamer9240 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    As a Jew I can confirm I can make many people laugh after spending some time to know them a bit

    • @springflowerblosomnorris9721
      @springflowerblosomnorris9721 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Can you make Jesus lough after you spend a little bit of time to know him?
      Proverbs 1:26 KJV - I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
      26גַּם־֭אֲנִי בְּאֵידְכֶ֣ם אֶשְׂחָ֑ק אֶ֝לְעַ֗ג בְּבֹ֣א פַחְדְּכֶֽם׃
      Much love and blessings.

    • @theultimatereductionist7592
      @theultimatereductionist7592 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      WHAT THE F does being "Jewish" mean ANYWAY? Am I jewish? Isn't it supposed to be a religion?
      It's funny that judaism is the only religion that doesn't seem to know it's a religion. Like, aren't you supposed to believe in a single god or something, and that's it, right? 99% of the entertainers I see big media claim are "jewish" I am highly skeptical.
      Just like ANY meaningless useless worthless unfalsifiable untestable association, you are a member of this assocation if you SAY you are. So, if you SAY you are jewish, then you're jewish. If you say you are not jewish, then you are not jewish.
      NOBODY HAS ANY POWER OR AUTHORITY TO FORCE YOU TO BE jewish or not jewish. Don't care wtf your breeders chose to classify themselves as: if you say you are jewish then you are. If you say you are not then you are not. Period.

  • @fwconcrete8544
    @fwconcrete8544 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    why before the holocaust you have to mention the spanish inquisition 1478 for us the sephardic jews

  • @user-ov5pf8jv2w
    @user-ov5pf8jv2w 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    😂😂😂😂 thank u Unpacked

  • @misselaineous9151
    @misselaineous9151 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks!

    • @UNPACKED
      @UNPACKED  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You bet!

  • @Chucky-hf6oe
    @Chucky-hf6oe 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Mr Stein is hit by a cab and breaks his leg and his arm. After the EMTs get him in the bus and set up a morphine drip one asks him, "Mr Stein? Are you comfortable?"
    Stein replies, " Feh! I make a living."

  • @heard3879
    @heard3879 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    In case I need to pull a cart with a fish and a goat, it’s nice to know there’s guidelines already for that.

  • @yosefrazin6455
    @yosefrazin6455 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He missed the puns in Tanakh and the handful of your momma jokes in the Talmud

  • @Ella-ye4vm
    @Ella-ye4vm 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Der jüdische witz mit arik brauer, beste

  • @abrahammorrison6374
    @abrahammorrison6374 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Three Stooges and The Marx Brothers were Jewish. Don't forget.

  • @PunishedMushu
    @PunishedMushu 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Is just nepotism

    • @zackhunter8364
      @zackhunter8364 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You said it brother

    • @saraleigh5336
      @saraleigh5336 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They created whole new industries specifically because they were not permitted in other industries. It is the opposite of nepotism.

    • @PunishedMushu
      @PunishedMushu หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@saraleigh5336 why those specifically then?

    • @saraleigh5336
      @saraleigh5336 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@PunishedMushu it’s not just that industry, but think about it. Comedy tends to be independent. It was the whole origin of the Borscht Belt, and the only places in Florida that did admit Jews, and the founding of Hollywood because Broadway did not admit Jews.

  • @nicbahtin4774
    @nicbahtin4774 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Well we do love to troll alot

  • @Chucky-hf6oe
    @Chucky-hf6oe 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Okay....its gonna be a 3 door night.
    Guy walks into his doctor's office asking for help coz he's convinced he's a moth. "Doc, every single day I go to the mirror, only to see a proboscis and multi-faceted eyes...many of them."
    The doctor advances the opinion that perhaps a psychiatrist would be in order for this delusion.
    "But doc I swear I'm was in the way to see one, but your light...was just sooooo attractive."

  • @BONOFARMSGH
    @BONOFARMSGH 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Jews are a blessed people

  • @terribleterri2738
    @terribleterri2738 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They do?

  • @yaakovj2878
    @yaakovj2878 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Nope, plenty of humor in the talmud. Some of it to bring out a point, some of it by law (ridiculing of idols is allowed, tractate megilla 25b).
    Some questions is to explain the discussed topic at a fundamental level, such as the case with the fish and the goat pulling a wagon.
    Even in tanach, our forefather Issac's name literally means "he will laugh".
    Ask a good orthodox rabbi, they will tell you this.

    • @adrianblake8876
      @adrianblake8876 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But Psalms1 says that blessed is the man who doesn't hang out with jesters...

    • @yaakovj2878
      @yaakovj2878 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@adrianblake8876 what that means is people who ridicule things that are meant to be serious, and it also says a sitting of jesters. That means is that they constantly are sitting and ridiculing, as opposed to making a good humored joke.

    • @adrianblake8876
      @adrianblake8876 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@yaakovj2878 But the Talmud says (in Avodah Zara 18b) this applies to people who go to the circus...

    • @yaakovj2878
      @yaakovj2878 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@adrianblake8876 again, because it is a place designated for frivolous behavior and ridicule (and a waste of time that could be better spent in more worthwhile pursuits)

    • @adrianblake8876
      @adrianblake8876 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@yaakovj2878 You keep saying "frivolous behaviour and ridicule", I don't think you understand the comedic profession (remember that "comedy" comes from ancient Greek, just like the words "circus" and "stadium" that Chazal warn against...) the video you watched refers to...

  • @Historian212
    @Historian212 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "Heine" is pronounced "Hi-nuh," not "Hine." Did you really think the rabbis were being literal when they wrote that question about the fish drawing a wagon? Wow. It's "an actual question," sort of; but not a serious one. Rather, it was a way to make a point, through exaggeration and absurdity. And those are both parts of humor. Check out Prof. Daniel Boyarin's book, "Socrates and the Fat Rabbis." Boyarin compares styles of talmudic discourse to Greek and Roman philosophical works, and reveals satire and other forms of humor that many who study the Talmud miss. (Not an easy read, but before you discuss humor in the Talmud, you really should read Boyarin. He makes an important argument.) I have no affiliation with Prof. Boyarin or his book, but I did attend one of his lectures. He's a wild guy.

    • @DenisMark1
      @DenisMark1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "Heine" is pronounced "Hi-nuh," not "Hine." - THANK YOU. Is NO ONE literate on this production team? How hard it is it to check a pronunciation?

    • @yaakovj2878
      @yaakovj2878 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ask a rabbi why there seems to be such strange questions in the talmud, but some questions are to understand a point being discussed at a fundamental level, not that people would neccessarely do it. Just ask a rabbi.

    • @saraleigh5336
      @saraleigh5336 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@yaakovj2878oesn’t require asking a rabbi; this is fairly common knowledge. But you do you.

  • @christopherflux6254
    @christopherflux6254 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In the UK, it’s Irish and Liverpudlian people who are seen as funny. Maybe Jewish people are Americas version of this.

  • @saraleigh5336
    @saraleigh5336 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Would be great if the thumbnail actually depicted a Jew.

  • @michelaser
    @michelaser 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You can be one of the best comedians, actors, musicians, film makes etc. If you have an Arab name, even if you are a Christian, you will Not make it in the industry. Talking about racism.

  • @AbbaKovner-gg9zp
    @AbbaKovner-gg9zp 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    All the Jewish comics out there and y'all picked a fictional character played by a non-Jew for the thumbnail. Get it together Unpacked.

    • @saraleigh5336
      @saraleigh5336 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes!

    • @AbbaKovner-gg9zp
      @AbbaKovner-gg9zp 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@saraleigh5336 I notice the thumbnail now shows Adam Sandler. Ha!

    • @saraleigh5336
      @saraleigh5336 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AbbaKovner-gg9zp woo hoo!

    • @shrimpscampin
      @shrimpscampin 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@AbbaKovner-gg9zp who did it show before?

    • @saraleigh5336
      @saraleigh5336 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@shrimpscampin the actress from Mrs. Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan

  • @kalokairis
    @kalokairis 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Don Rickles the King of Jews (his words) and of Comedy

  • @ColKurtzknew
    @ColKurtzknew หลายเดือนก่อน

    More specifically NYC Jews. The number of comedians from there is too amazing to be coincidental. Carlin must've been half goya.

  • @VesnaVK
    @VesnaVK 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This would be funnier without gags cut in every two seconds. Can't get through it.

  • @RasMajnouni
    @RasMajnouni 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    B"H Being Israeli, speaking Yiddish,Hebrew and some Arabic, Jews are very funny, so Arabs have a similar sense of Humor. Blacks? Nebbich

  • @dr.danburritoman1293
    @dr.danburritoman1293 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don’t support mocking God, but those other comedic strategies are rather effective for me.

    • @saraleigh5336
      @saraleigh5336 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Jewish people is named after wrestling with God, Yisrael. This is part of it.

    • @dr.danburritoman1293
      @dr.danburritoman1293 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@saraleigh5336 interesting.

  • @fightthegoodfightoffaithmi8676
    @fightthegoodfightoffaithmi8676 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2 Corinthians Chapter 11
    1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

  • @JehudaEwert
    @JehudaEwert 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As my channel connfirms: We are NOT funny, we don't use the vicious practice to discriminate the race of incompetent.And we are technicolor white in europe, thus falasha, Liimba, Igbo and Abaudajaare technicolor dark

  • @ayrsine
    @ayrsine 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Judaism, the greatest story of an underdog who was being molded into a Lion!

  • @jayrosen6663
    @jayrosen6663 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Jews, and other minorities are great at comedy, because comedy comes from pain. Something, all of us can relate to.

  • @imoeazy
    @imoeazy 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Your premises for your statement " why jews are inherently/ naturally funny" is so far fetched. Clutching for straws. Your conclusion/ statement should be " Why funny jews were represented heavily through west media".

  • @alexarviso6836
    @alexarviso6836 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Nepotism and cronyism.

  • @davidalexander6811
    @davidalexander6811 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Because Farts Are Funny! 🤎

  • @daveneil3969
    @daveneil3969 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Talmud says three things characterize the Jews (humor isn't one of them- but we are funny) anyway it says.. "The Jewish people possess three characteristics: they are merciful, modest and perform deeds of kindness." (Yevamot) Guess being merciful, modest and doing good deeds wouldn't make as interesting video as this one though. And there is a lot of references for humor in the Talmud in fact it says of Rabba (one of the main teachers quoted in the Talmud) that as a pedagogic device he always started his class with a joke to relax his students! (You can google both these references if you like.)

  • @dalelerette206
    @dalelerette206 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jesus dying on the cross seems to be God laughing at Himself at the Jew's holy expense. 😇

  • @-Fuzz-Buzz
    @-Fuzz-Buzz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    No.

  • @YoxB.
    @YoxB. 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They also have 22% of the Nobel prizes

  • @LT-st5mq
    @LT-st5mq 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the funniest one was Karl Marx

    • @NBrioDaZueraRules
      @NBrioDaZueraRules 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      his letter about lassalle was indeed hilarious

  • @muhammedjaseemshajeef6781
    @muhammedjaseemshajeef6781 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Example zelensky😂

  • @aevoza8759
    @aevoza8759 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Heheheha

  • @000tck000
    @000tck000 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ooooor just maybe u guys are cherrypicked by people who are the same religion ?? Makes more sense than u telling me u have an extra funny bone
    You own the entertainment business son, stop selling me propaganda

    • @UNPACKED
      @UNPACKED  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We have a whole video about that, you should watch it! th-cam.com/video/A6kLNp5uTfU/w-d-xo.html

    • @000tck000
      @000tck000 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@UNPACKED there are videos on Israel not being a terrorist but it means nothing

  • @milascave2
    @milascave2 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The Talmud does not have anything to-do with Jewish comedians. It is, however, one of the reasons that there are so many Jewish lawyers.

    • @deborahfreedman333
      @deborahfreedman333 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Are you kidding me? I find the idea of removing an oven's door, then putting it back, makes it a brand new oven, extremely funny.

  • @Juan-fi6hc
    @Juan-fi6hc 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There not that funny there some hateful one's to

  • @someutubchannel69
    @someutubchannel69 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You have to be SMART to be FUNNY!!
    JEWS are mostly very smart!
    That's why they make good comedians!!

  • @JasonLewis-nf5ft
    @JasonLewis-nf5ft 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Аm Israel Chai, Ata totakh, akh hayakar shelanu🇮🇱🤝🇮🇱🤝🇮🇱🤝🇮🇱🎼🎸🍾👍!!!!

  • @urielromero5069
    @urielromero5069 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I don’t find it funny to use comedy to masquerade deadly attacks on outsiders ( non- Jewish). For example,
    Sarah Silverman stand-up routine contains statements like "I hope the Jews did kill Jesus, I'd do it again in a second!"
    Or the extensive history of Jewish comedians (non-blacks ) impersonating blacks, especially through wearing makeup on their faces - whether accompanied by stereotyped “black language” and mannerisms.
    A lot of irreparable damage has already been done by the so called comedians, including those that constitute a vast number of the “ 80% of comedians being Jewish “ ,that cannot be ignored.

    • @hrvatskinoahid1048
      @hrvatskinoahid1048 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jews are commanded not to be afraid of killing the false prophet in Deuteronomy 18:22.

    • @saraleigh5336
      @saraleigh5336 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      whether or not you like her humor, what she is doing is taking a dangerous antiSemitic trope (that the Jews killed Jesus)-and she turns the history of apologetics on its head, instead, beating anti-Jewish Christian bigots to the punch.
      What is the extensive history of the specifically Jewish use of blackface, etc.? Please share.

    • @NBrioDaZueraRules
      @NBrioDaZueraRules 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@hrvatskinoahid1048 they did not kill jesus, this is just a sad attempt to try to make them look good

  • @user-py7uh3wj9d
    @user-py7uh3wj9d 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Your average arab barber is funnier than all of americas funniest combined

  • @ortalwendy6356
    @ortalwendy6356 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ❤️🇮🇱

  • @andailchanter545
    @andailchanter545 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They're *SOOOO* persecuted... but why? Why?

    • @ruthietaylor8756
      @ruthietaylor8756 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jealousy creates hate

    • @NBrioDaZueraRules
      @NBrioDaZueraRules 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ruthietaylor8756 it is not a coincidence that this is the same "argument" used against communism

  • @MoHa-rv6mw
    @MoHa-rv6mw 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Arabs are the funniest comedians ever, trust me.

    • @Historian212
      @Historian212 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Really? Let it go, Indiana. Everybody can be funny, okay?

    • @milascave2
      @milascave2 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have met Arabs who were gut bus tingly funny. One offended me at first because he seemed to be anti-Semitic (OK, I know, Arabs are Semites. Let's just say anti-Jewish, then.)
      But after I came out to him as Jewish and talked to him more, I realized that he went after EVERYBODY Jews Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Chinese, everybody.
      But what did these guys do? They ran a small shop. For some reason, they seldom seem to go professional with their humor.

  • @levicarvalho4389
    @levicarvalho4389 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    🤢

  • @Rayven_cat
    @Rayven_cat 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I hope the zionists don't try to make the Palestinian genocide funny.

  • @_bounced3663
    @_bounced3663 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    U aint funny
    Free Palestine

  • @SpiritBled99
    @SpiritBled99 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸