I remember the Ed Sullivan show used to be a great vehicle for a lot of those kinds of comics. It appears the old variety shows and that kind of humor have gone the same way. And reading “The Joys Of Yiddish” by Leo Rosten which was a great repository for that kind of humor. Oy Vey!!
I am of an ethnic group that historically didn’t exactly get along with Jews, yet I find the humor very similar between them.
My favorite: A very, very old couple goes in to to a divorce lawyer’s office. The lawyer explains to them that it isn’t very difficult to get divorced these days. He asks them, how old they are. The husband tells him that he is 94 and his wife is 92. The lawyer asks them why, at this stage of their lives, did they want to get divorced. The wife tells him, “We were waiting for the children to die”.
“And reading “The Joys Of Yiddish” by Leo Rosten which was a great repository for that kind of humor. Oy Vey!!”
The Education of Hyman Kaplan is hilarious.