Jon Stewart mentioned this guy in a bit, so I googled him - what a lovable act! Cynicism to puncture inflated people is great and necessary, but... I wish we could still have some more just... nice comedians once in a while. Who poke gentle fun. Thanks for uploading it.
This is so evident in this amazing video. I long for the days we did not have to swear and be vile in order to be funny! It wasn't funny then and it certainly isn't now! B"H
@@sportsamania it was spozed'ta have been Goldberg, but when I first set it up it was after a few cervezas so I forgiot the PW...next choice was Cohen... Hadda get two names together that didn't 'compute' like 'Hakeem Shapiro' or 'Nunzio O'Brian'...
My favorite Cohen joke: Abe walks in on Eli and asks, "Whatcha doin?" Eli says, "Watching the game". Abe asks, "What's the score?" Eli says "86 to 74". Abe: "Who's winning?" Eli: "86".
Stranger walks into a bar outside of Dublin and asks the old man at the bar: "What's the best way to get to Dublin?" "Are you driving or walking?" "Driving." "That would be the best way."
While in HS I found a cassette that was filled with taped stand up from Myron Cohen from '47 & '49. Was devastated when, ironically, I lost the tape. He was one of the first comedians that I heard at a young age. I wanted to become a comedian but never got the nerve to pursue it. Still love listening to stand up comics of all genres and backgrounds.
Myron Cohen was one of the Greatest "Borsch Belt" comics ever!! I have his book, "Laughing Out Loud" which I treasure. Myron started out in life as a furrier salesman. He always warmed up to the buyers with some good funny stories, not jokes but funny stories about the business. After hearing that he should try comedy, he did & we are all the better for him. R.I.P.!!
Absolutely hilarious! I am new to his work, but I'm hooked! This is proof that you don't have to use fowl language or put anyone down to be funny. He was raw and natural talent!
Foul language back then would have gotten him censored and blacklisted. Look what happened to Jackie Mason, who only used a gesture, and the Smothers Brothers. Their careers were ruined for years.
Completely new to me. A gentle humour delivered in a style which I'm guessing was rare in the early 1950s? He clearly drank from the wellspring of a rich cultural background ... his reference to WW2 .... extraordinary to think it had only ended 6 years before this broadcast.
I met Cohen at Lewis's Bistro & Delicatessen in San Francisco back in the old days. Proprietor Freddy Lewis always told me that Myron was a lousy tipper ...until his 3rd glass of Manischewitz.
I remember him on Ed Sullivan; this is right after the war and a lot of comedians coming up were Jewish, from New York and trained on the Borsht Belt. The addition of Yiddish is something I haven't heard in a long time; really miss it.
the Borscht Belt was the name of an area of the Catskill Mountains in New York State. There were a lot of summer resorts that catered to New Yorkers. Places like Grossingers, Fallsview, the Nevele, etc. They had evening entertainments, where the up and coming comics would try out new material and try to get noticed. Again, this is in the 50's and 60's. Did you ever see Dirty Dancing? That takes place in one of those resorts.
I did see Dirty Dancing and I see the coralation. The kids stay in the cabin and the parents go to the show. I miss the simple jokes by Dangerfield and Youngmen. Thank You.
Dangerfield when asked if he thought his operation would go well repled, "If it goes well I will be out in two weeks, if it goes bad I will be out in one hour." He died of complications. True story.
The Kate Smith show. Wow. I'm 74years old. This is a dim memory. I remember those flowers in front of her. Her theme song, I think, was "when the moon comes over the mountain" . In 1951 I was four years old. I think I must have seen a later season. But, maybe, we had a tv then. I'll have to look up the dates of the Donald O'Connor show. I remember that one too.
My grandparents had a scrapbook of all the hotels that they had visited in the Catskills way back when--flyers and postcards..etc--there was also a photo taken at a dinner table with them and a man who was a dead ringer for Myron--i wonder?
In my youth, I won a deluxe dinner and show for two as a prize for having the correct answer in a call-in radio show. I remember only my date that evening, the dessert ("flaming" cherries jubilee), and one of the best live shows in my lifetime, with great seats, featuring not one, but three great entertainers performing onstage: Myron Cohen, Joel Grey, and Michel Legrand.
Lovely Thank you for posting I miss Norm MacDonald Triple-jabbed Gilbert Gottfried, who died of a “heart condition,” is another lost legend I miss I will pray for America. Please pray for me. God Bless you.
Wow. Just as I remember Myron from his Ed Sullivan show appearances. Haven't seen anything like this on youtube before. And farblunjet is French, hmmmmmmmmm. Myron began his career as a garment salesman who told jokes to customers. He was so funny that people suggested he become a comedian, which he did. Please keep posting these great items.
I'm curious about that ... can you please tell me if they still have a lot of Comedy going on nowadays in this sickeningly "politically correct " environment where NOBODY is allowed to say ANYTHING about anyone or anything at all without being made to look like a monster ...and people being so HURT and offended . Can you please tell me if you would know if comedy is Alive and Well in that area ? ... or if that is a thing of the past anyway irrespective of the political climate of today ?
You mean the places that allowed Jews to perform? Like the Grits Circuit, the Chitlin' Circuit and the Bible Belt there were areas that only allowed certain races, religions, etc to perform. Maybe because anyone can perform anywhere now? If you want to perfect your act, you have to appeal to more than one group.
Nicky Depaola Yes. You could buy a nice house on one salary, the media was actually independent (not owned by one of six major corporations and the police patrolled on foot and knew (and spoke with) people that they passed on the street. On the other hand, Afro-Americans were riding at the back of the bus, could not drink from the water fountains of white people and could not enter certain restaurants. The "good old days" were not without flaws. We seem to often think that the past/future was/will be better than the present. Fascinating.
True. TV has standards for families as do cruise ships and churches. However, if I'm in a nightclub or a bar I want to hear the language of my environment. And if I brought my mom or minor daughter there I should be chastised, not the comedian.
@@billknoop What WHO call funny? AARP long standing members?! He worked me into a smile. However, if TODAY'S comedians and audience are both clueless then both are happy, right? Are you saying Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and Felipe Esparza aren't funny? Maybe you need a time machine and a MAKE AMERICA BORING AGAIN cap.
I loved Myron Cohen and the other Yiddish comics like Gertrude Berg. One thing I've wondered about though is as Jewish as they were in voice and appearance, did the word "Jew" ever come out of their mouths. Joe in Israel.
Myron, Benny, Sid, Hope, Berle, Buttons, Skelton, et al, were all products of doing the Catskills and the “Borscht Belt” for years and 1,000’s of show during the height of the Burlesque days. I remember watching in B&W on Sunday evenings the great “leftover” shows of burlesque times , shows like Sullivan, Allen, Burns etc. Last show I remember doing that was Carol Burnett, and that was a hoot as well. You can’t return to the past, but I wish the past would catch up to these days and show this entitled, me-first generation what true showmanship was. But...that’s just me.
I remember him on Ed Sullivan like, in the early 70's. He had become a shrunken little old man and had lost that urbane quality. Told a joke about a man entering a bake shop at night from a blizzard to buy a single bagel. One bagel? In a snowstorm? Is it for your wife? What, the customer retorts: My MOTHER would send me out on a night like this? My parents were rolling, but they had grown up in the east, and we were just little Floridians..
Very good Jewish comedian !, Always love to hear and see Kate Smith! I must admit though I was expecting to see a guy with an accordion with a big smile and playing very fast! (Let's see if anybody gets the reference).
I remember Myron Cohen, we watched Kate Smith on some friends of our families television. KATE SMITH. KATE SMITH. And, once more for good measure : KATE SMITH
@@majordendrocopos I think you are correct, majordendrocopos. Almost as racist as hip hop, if not more, depending on your propensity for being offended and loyalty to whichever racial, cultural or gender grouping.
mu99ins America in 1931 was openly and unashamedly a segregated racist country, but I am unable to decide whether the song is meant to be serious or ironic. Even the title feels very wrong in 2019.
For those of you wondering at some of the words and laughter: Mr. Cohen is Jewish (duh...) and so is his audience. Hence all the laughing at his clever mention of Yiddish words every here and there.
I enjoyed watching Cohen back in the fifties and now, almost 70 years later, I can enjoy his humor again and again.
Jon Stewart mentioned this guy in a bit, so I googled him - what a lovable act! Cynicism to puncture inflated people is great and necessary, but... I wish we could still have some more just... nice comedians once in a while. Who poke gentle fun. Thanks for uploading it.
He was the greatest. No one could tell a joke better.Masterly timing and body language and accents. And above all a kind of sweetness of character.
Perfectly Stated.
Jack Benny had better timing than anyone . . . ever.
Dave chappele
This is so evident in this amazing video. I long for the days we did not have to swear and be vile in order to be funny! It wasn't funny then and it certainly isn't now! B"H
@@dtlittlemoore5122 But Myron was funnier.
I saw Myron Cohen as a kid, in Miami, live on the Jackie Gleason show. I could not stop laughing
Thanks for posting this. I loved Myron Cohen. Such memories of his performances as the family gathered at the TV all laughed together.
excellent
Can't get enough of this guy. Loved his routines.
This is timeless American humor. Serve me some Borscht!
Ok , but Jerry Lewis will be your waiter , lol!
When I was young and TV was just starting one of the best was when Myron Cohen was on.
I loved Myron Cohen as a child.. he starts off speaking like a british toff and BOOOM... it's Brooklyn
As a kid, I'd memorize his routines, along with the 'eccent', and do them at at school for my classmates...
How'd that go over?
Still a kydder
What a name u got lol no way it’s real
@@sportsamania it was spozed'ta have been Goldberg, but when I first set it up it was after a few cervezas so I forgiot the PW...next choice was Cohen... Hadda get two names together that didn't 'compute' like 'Hakeem Shapiro' or 'Nunzio O'Brian'...
"...so bring back da fly...I give you a raisin..." one of my favorite lines ever...
what's funny about it?
My favorite Cohen joke: Abe walks in on Eli and asks, "Whatcha doin?" Eli says, "Watching the game". Abe asks, "What's the score?" Eli says "86 to 74". Abe: "Who's winning?" Eli: "86".
Stranger walks into a bar outside of Dublin and asks the old man at the bar:
"What's the best way to get to Dublin?"
"Are you driving or walking?"
"Driving."
"That would be the best way."
While in HS I found a cassette that was filled with taped stand up from Myron Cohen from '47 & '49. Was devastated when, ironically, I lost the tape. He was one of the first comedians that I heard at a young age. I wanted to become a comedian but never got the nerve to pursue it. Still love listening to stand up comics of all genres and backgrounds.
He was ALWAYS delightful when I watched him on TV. And I'm enjoying him again.
Myron Cohen was one of the Greatest "Borsch Belt" comics ever!! I have his book, "Laughing Out Loud" which I treasure. Myron started out in life as a furrier salesman. He always warmed up to the buyers with some good funny stories, not jokes but funny stories about the business. After hearing that he should try comedy, he did & we are all the better for him. R.I.P.!!
Missed his comedy for so long. Thinking about it makes me feel old. But happy memories.
One of my favorite comedians. Thanks for posting this clip.👍
Brings back so many funny memories.
Marla Berger god damn, how old ARE you?
Amazing! Anyone in the family could listen to a comic like Myron Cohen.
Was my Irish-American dad's favorite comedian. So long ago now.
Absolutely hilarious! I am new to his work, but I'm hooked! This is proof that you don't have to use fowl language or put anyone down to be funny. He was raw and natural talent!
Fowl language is for the birds.
Foul language back then would have gotten him censored and blacklisted. Look what happened to Jackie Mason, who only used a gesture, and the Smothers Brothers. Their careers were ruined for years.
Loved. Watching him on Es Sullivan,,,,,,,,,,
It’s hard to find for love or money a joke that’s clean and also funny
A penguin walks into a bar and says to the bartender, "Whisky. No ice..."
Completely new to me. A gentle humour delivered in a style which I'm guessing was rare in the early 1950s? He clearly drank from the wellspring of a rich cultural background ... his reference to WW2 .... extraordinary to think it had only ended 6 years before this broadcast.
could you tell where the reference is? i cant for the love of god find where he put in a WW2 reference.
@@jacqiwei7672 6.00 " the last war". He's speaking in 1951.
@@phillipecook3227 thanks haha I guess I didn’t look hard enough 👍
I’ve been in this business about 20 years performing producing writing managing clubs... he was the classic storytelling comedian.
"Bring back the fly, I'll give you a raisin". Funny! :D
Oy, Myron, you still give me such nochess! 💕
I met Cohen at Lewis's Bistro & Delicatessen in San Francisco back in the old days. Proprietor Freddy Lewis always told me that Myron was a lousy tipper ...until his 3rd glass of Manischewitz.
I remember him on Ed Sullivan; this is right after the war and a lot of comedians coming up were Jewish, from New York and trained on the Borsht Belt. The addition of Yiddish is something I haven't heard in a long time; really miss it.
What was the Borsh Belt.??
the Borscht Belt was the name of an area of the Catskill Mountains in New York State. There were a lot of summer resorts that catered to New Yorkers. Places like Grossingers, Fallsview, the Nevele, etc. They had evening entertainments, where the up and coming comics would try out new material and try to get noticed. Again, this is in the 50's and 60's. Did you ever see Dirty Dancing? That takes place in one of those resorts.
I did see Dirty Dancing and I see the coralation. The kids stay in the cabin and the parents go to the show. I miss the simple jokes by Dangerfield and Youngmen. Thank You.
Dangerfield when asked if he thought his operation would go well repled, "If it goes well I will be out in two weeks, if it goes bad I will be out in one hour." He died of complications. True story.
@@blinko656 "What a crowd, what a crowd. I tell ya I'm alright now but last week I was in rough shape ya know" 👌
Many thanks for posting. An archive gem. I'd never heard of this guy before tonight.
Unaware of this great master, but what a pleasure to hear his stories
The Kate Smith show.
Wow.
I'm 74years old. This is a dim memory.
I remember those flowers in front of her.
Her theme song, I think, was "when the moon comes over the mountain" .
In 1951 I was four years old. I think I must have seen a later season. But, maybe, we had a tv then.
I'll have to look up the dates of the Donald O'Connor show. I remember that one too.
I’m 74 also and have similar memories...and you see what my name is....Who knew?😊👍
And...
You spell your name CORRECTLY !!
I remember watching him, and all the other great comics on the Ed Sullivan show,, back in the early 60's.
Debra Sparks Me too! I bet you're surprised to get a response after six years of waiting!
Winnifred Forbes yes, I sure am !!!
He was a Sunday night staple on the Ed Sullivan Show. I loved the comics Ed showcased.
5:51-6:58 😂 perfectly delivered & tastefully communicated in one minute!
My grandparents had a scrapbook of all the hotels that they had visited in the Catskills way back when--flyers and postcards..etc--there was also a photo taken at a dinner table with them and a man who was a dead ringer for Myron--i wonder?
I LIKE being called "Ladies and Gentlemen"!
A latter-day master of what I think they called "dialect humor", which flourished in the early 20th century.
He's been watching Gertrude Berg's "The Goldbergs" - same mannerisms and of course, 'dialect'....
In my youth, I won a deluxe dinner and show for two as a prize for having the correct answer in a call-in radio show. I remember only my date that evening, the dessert ("flaming" cherries jubilee), and one of the best live shows in my lifetime, with great seats, featuring not one, but three great entertainers performing onstage: Myron Cohen, Joel Grey, and Michel Legrand.
Wow! What a lineup!
The Jewish comedians from this era were the best ever. Myron Cohen was among them.
Lovely
Thank you for posting
I miss Norm MacDonald
Triple-jabbed Gilbert Gottfried, who died of a “heart condition,” is another lost legend I miss
I will pray for America. Please pray for me. God Bless you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you....
Myron was SUPER....shows comics today it is possible to get laughs without being vulgar.....
Brilliant. And a man of good will. I saw him only on Ed Sullivan when I was a kid, and I was lucky.
Wow. Just as I remember Myron from his Ed Sullivan show appearances. Haven't seen anything like this on youtube before. And farblunjet is French, hmmmmmmmmm. Myron began his career as a garment salesman who told jokes to customers. He was so funny that people suggested he become a comedian, which he did. Please keep posting these great items.
The jokes flow so mellowfluosly from his mouth brilliant.
The last one about the 3 statues is the best I'm still laughing
It's 50 years later and he's still funny.
Closer to 70 years and yes, still funny
@@greglapointe1311 Your math is better. lol
Still NOTfunny.
This guy is a riot!
Borscht Belt humor. It and the hotels that allowed it to be perfected and the comedians who held us spell-bound are all gone.
I'm curious about that ... can you please tell me if they still have a lot of Comedy going on nowadays in this sickeningly "politically correct " environment where NOBODY is allowed to say ANYTHING about anyone or anything at all without being made to look like a monster ...and people being so HURT and offended .
Can you please tell me if you would know if comedy is Alive and Well in that area ? ... or if that is a thing of the past anyway irrespective of the political climate of today ?
gardensofthegods -Correct. Comedy in Russia is dead. In America we have the whining altreich to laff at, fortunately.
@@gardensofthegods
Thin skin today seems to have started at the top with trumps skin as the skinniest. This too shall pass I pray.
@@gardensofthegods You need to see more comedians.
You mean the places that allowed Jews to perform? Like the Grits Circuit, the Chitlin' Circuit and the Bible Belt there were areas that only allowed certain races, religions, etc to perform. Maybe because anyone can perform anywhere now? If you want to perfect your act, you have to appeal to more than one group.
I remember comedian Jack Carter's line. He said, Did you hear the news? Kate Smith just decided to break up and become a trio.
I've never even heard of Myron, but he is funny. Liked his performance a lot.
Kate Smith !! ...I'll bet 1951 was a GREAT year to be thriving in the USA !! ( I was born in 1963)
Now the snowflakes of America are labeling her a racist,, so sad how this natiln is going!
Nicky Depaola Yes. You could buy a nice house on one salary, the media was actually independent (not owned by one of six major corporations and the police patrolled on foot and knew (and spoke with) people that they passed on the street. On the other hand, Afro-Americans were riding at the back of the bus, could not drink from the water fountains of white people and could not enter certain restaurants. The "good old days" were not without flaws. We seem to often think that the past/future was/will be better than the present. Fascinating.
Masterful, polished, nuanced.
Well said...Brother...a joy to watch.
Nuanced is not at all a correct descriptor for this act.
My fathers favorite comic! Never a dirty word. You don't need four letter words to be funny!
I disagree, if he would've said cunt it would've been a hundred and ten percent funnier. This comedy does not hold up at all today.
_"You don't need four letter words to be funny!"_ Sure. And you don't need pepper on your eggs either. Get it???
Johnny Cash -Humor has little or nothing to do with cussing-unless your intellect is that of a seven year old.
True. TV has standards for families as do cruise ships and churches. However, if I'm in a nightclub or a bar I want to hear the language of my environment. And if I brought my mom or minor daughter there I should be chastised, not the comedian.
"a sharp mind doesn't need a rough word to get a bite"
-author unknown
My father really gets a kick out of his terrific facial expressions.
Yeah I love the one he makes at 1:22.
WTH!!!!!!!!!! Amazing, I really didn't know him but I'm gonna check out his other videos!!!!!!!!!!
BRAVO from Acapulco (Age 79) !
I was born two years later, but I'd never heard of him. My loss. He's great.
I can't help but believe that Jackie Mason was heavily influenced by this man.
Who wasn't influenced by everyone else back then. They were all buds!
Both Myron Cohen and Jackie Mason played the two Jewish robot tailors in Woody Allen's Sleeper.
I agree 100%.
Happy birthday, Myron (1902)!
Loved this man. He was sooooo funny.
Comedians today should take a lesson from Mr. Cohen, a true gentleman. Not a vulgar word.
He is a Story teller Bill Cosby
My father had one of his albums. He let a GD go every once in awhile.
Not a vulgar word because he was not born in the vulgar world which exists today.
He was what they call -- FUNNY. Today's "comedians" and audiences haven't got a clue.
@@billknoop What WHO call funny? AARP long standing members?! He worked me into a smile. However, if TODAY'S comedians and audience are both clueless then both are happy, right? Are you saying Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and Felipe Esparza aren't funny? Maybe you need a time machine and a MAKE AMERICA BORING AGAIN cap.
I loved Myron Cohen and the other Yiddish comics like Gertrude Berg. One thing I've wondered about though is as Jewish as they were in voice and appearance, did the word "Jew" ever come out of their mouths. Joe in Israel.
Totally amazing video
I still remember some of his jokes after all these many years, but can't tell them with the twist he was able to put on them.
My father saw him perform in Yiddish.
It was probably funnier
Adam Herbst YEAH RIGHT!
They're all gone.
I saw him perform in Paulm Springs.
Cohen had an extremely creative comic mind.
Great
I love Jewish humour. Their sarcasm is beautiful!
No.
This rules....!!!!
palm beach had me 🤣
I remember this guy. So funny.
loved him at kutchers hotel
Absolute class !
I love how easy it was to make people laugh back then
He was a real Yedish comedian. You can't get any more Jewish than this guy. I remember his name when I was very young.
I’m 45 and would like more.
Myron, Benny, Sid, Hope, Berle, Buttons, Skelton, et al, were all products of doing the Catskills and the “Borscht Belt” for years and 1,000’s of show during the height of the Burlesque days. I remember watching in B&W on Sunday evenings the great “leftover” shows of burlesque times , shows like Sullivan, Allen, Burns etc. Last show I remember doing that was Carol Burnett, and that was a hoot as well. You can’t return to the past, but I wish the past would catch up to these days and show this entitled, me-first generation what true showmanship was. But...that’s just me.
A form of art, gone. Gone forever
My brother could never tell a joke articulately - we used to sarcastically call him Myron Cohen.
clean fun
Real comedy.
Met him in Las Vgas in 1971
Now I know where my father got his material and dialect.
genius
I saw him perform in Vegas back in 1975. He is amazing.
I miss Myron Cohen.
@@Mark-v7y8t that was uncalled for.
I remember him on Ed Sullivan like, in the early 70's. He had become a shrunken little old man and had lost that urbane quality. Told a joke about a man entering a bake shop at night from a blizzard to buy a single bagel. One bagel? In a snowstorm? Is it for your wife? What, the customer retorts: My MOTHER would send me out on a night like this? My parents were rolling, but they had grown up in the east, and we were just little Floridians..
Very good Jewish comedian !, Always love to hear and see Kate Smith! I must admit though I was expecting to see a guy with an accordion with a big smile and playing very fast! (Let's see if anybody gets the reference).
Myron Floren...Lawrence Welk Show. Gotcha!
Damn...I thought the reference was to Leonard Cohen. Ha!Ha!
Back when funny didn't mean filthy language or political attacks.
Back BEFORE The UNFUNNY Needed The Fake 'Laugh Tracks' to SOUND Funny!
Back BEFORE The UNFUNNY Needed The Fake 'Laugh Tracks' to SOUND Funny!
sometimes they weren’t so chaste....please check out some of the early betty book cartoons.
or listen to mae west banter in her movies 🧐🤤
Don't know if you have seen many standups in the 50's, and found this to be true on average or you have just seen this one.
@@matildadhumxoxo5801 Betty Book?
Afraid I'm too young to appreciate this - I wasn't born till 1954
FAR from it.
I remember Myron Cohen, we watched Kate Smith on some friends of our families television.
KATE SMITH. KATE SMITH.
And, once more for good measure : KATE SMITH
@@majordendrocopos .
...what ....
gardensofthegods It is on TH-cam and was recorded in 1931.
@@majordendrocopos
I think you are correct, majordendrocopos. Almost as racist as hip hop, if not more, depending on your propensity for being offended and loyalty to whichever racial, cultural or gender grouping.
mu99ins America in 1931 was openly and unashamedly a segregated racist country, but I am unable to decide whether the song is meant to be serious or ironic. Even the title feels very wrong in 2019.
Wonderful comedian.
How far comedy has come.
I'm not Jewish, never been to America but LOVE Jewish humour! So much that is good has come from jewish immigrants.
Who spill on the floor?
He did!
Who, me?!!
Um, it's "spit". Open your ears.
Palem springs.....Brilliant...
A comedy legend
For those of you wondering at some of the words and laughter: Mr. Cohen is Jewish (duh...) and so is his audience. Hence all the laughing at his clever mention of Yiddish words every here and there.
funny !