Posted on 07/24/2021 6:54:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I’ve seen him on an Ed Sullivan rerun telling joke about then current President Kennedy! He was great for over 60 years.
RIP Jackie.
OK I’ll bite: What is the “Yiddish defamatory word for an African American”?
say hello to Buddy
May flights of angels sing him to his rest.
Basically resorts up in the Catskills, where middle class (mostly Jewish but not entirely) working class New Englanders would go in the summer to vacation and get out of the cities. The Borscht Belt was a sort of circuit for comedians and other entertainers to go entertain the people on vacation at dinner or cocktail hours.
Mel Brooks may be one of the last standing.
Back in the day Jews were not allowed in the Hamptons and snooty places. Hilton, in particular, had a no Jews allowed policy. Kid summer camps had the same issue.
So we created our own resorts.
The TV show The Marvelous Mrs. Masel on Amazon is largely focused on it.
It’s pretty much the birthplace of truly American modern humor.
Schwartze I think. In Blazing Saddles
it’s what Mel Brooks, as a Jewish-sounding
Indian, says when he sees Cleavon Little.
Mason:”The only people these days with
Jewish names are black people.Whoopi
Goldberg!” (heard on a radio ad for his
stage show)
Inspired voice of the blue aardvark in
Depatie Freleng’s Ant and the Aardvark
Well, quite a bit of it takes place in New Jersey!
In Woody Allen's movie Annie Hall, Allen's character Alvy Singer is a comedy writer. There's a short but funny scene where he's interviewed for a job by a second-rate (or maybe third-rate) Borscht Belt comic, played by Johnny Haymer, who wants him to write "a little French number" for his act. Alvy Singer looks at him like he's a total flake.
:)
May he rest in peace.
I live out West, so I had no idea. Very Interesting.
I was walking up Sixth Avenue in NYC one evening when someone walking in the other direction said hello to me. It was Jackie Mason! I don’t know why he said anything to me but I wushed him a good night.
Thanks for all the laughs Mr. Mason, RIP.
So we created our own resorts.
Right, I forgot to mention that aspect of the situation, not intentionally.
It's kind of strange that the hoity-toity resorts didn't want Jews, at least to me, if for no other reason than that the Jewish girls were way cuter than the gentile girls. IMHO. I can't picture who the goyim were trying to protect from whom.
I'm not Jewish, btw. But I did grow up in New York State, and since I was a semi-serious musician in high school and college I met and hung out with a lot of Jewish kids.
One of the last of the great comedians. RIP.
Boruch Dayan Emes (”G-d is the True Judge”). May he rest in peace. He brought a lot of enjoyment for thousands of people.
He was an original. RIP
It’s unsettling to see how much Homer and Krusty look alike.
It’s important to point out the main reason the Borscht Belt came into existence. Many/most resort hotels in the Northeast US were restricted (i.e., would not let Jews stay there) up to the late 1950’s/early 60’s.
Well we’re loud and obnoxious, stereotypically.
New money Jews coming to the white shoe country club is the entire gag behind Rodney Dangerfield in Caddy Shack.
And for the record, my family was in Israel since WWII.
My American wife’s speaks fondly of the Catskills.
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