![]() ![]() Jessica Kirson, a comedian, is the producer of Hysterical, a documentary about women in stand-up comedy, and host of the podcasts “Disgusting Hawk” and “Relatively Sane.”Ī young Jewish boy, being an obedient son, goes to the bakery to deliver a message from his mother to a very busy and very overworked baker. But then I would make fun of her, we’d all make fun of each other, and we’d crack up about it. She would always be kind to people, say thank you and tip well-but she’d be constantly complaining, and I would be so mortified and embarrassed. My grandmother would go to restaurants looking for something to complain about. When I was a kid, I used to be so uncomfortable with this kvetching. ![]() I have this new joke in my act where I say, “I had lunch with my mother the other day, and she looked up at me and said, ‘I didn’t like this chicken salad.’ And I’m like, ‘It didn’t even come yet.’” We have to switch seats all the time, there’s too much of a draft. It’s cooked too much, it’s not cooked enough. In my family, we’ll go to a restaurant-my great-grandmother, my grandmother, my mother and now me-and we all complain: We complain about the food and the drinks, the heat and the cold. They all shake their heads like, “Yes, of course.” It really says a lot about our people. When I tell this joke, people scream laughing. What did the waiter say to the group of Jewish women sitting in a restaurant? “Hello, is anything okay?” (I suspect that there are academics turning out scholarly articles with titles such as “Jewish Joke Exchanging as a Form of Bonding.”) If I ever did get involved in a joke-telling session dominated by the sort of secular jokes that begin “This guy walks into a bar” or “There are three guys stranded on a remote island,” I would probably, from force of habit, say. I have on many occasions sat around swapping Jewish jokes, but I can’t remember the last time I did that with non-Jewish jokes. In a joke included in Leo Rosten’s The Joys of Yiddish, a Jew crossing the street bumps into an anti-Semite. Whoever invented that joke was stating what is often spoken of as one of the origins of humor among a people who have so often faced prejudice: We can turn anything you say about us into something funny. When he returns, Benny says, “Did you get the $1,000?” And Maish says, “Don’t you people ever think of anything but money?” …Maish and Benny, who walk by a church whose sign says that anyone who converts will be given $1,000. Tell us your favorite Jewish jokes here or call Moment’s Joke Hotline at 20 and leave us a voicemail of your favorite Jewish joke. ![]() Fair warning: Some jokes in this collection will make you laugh, others will make you groan and grimace, and many are for mature audiences only. That’s why we’ve asked joke tellers, writers and scholars to share their favorite Jewish joke and explain why it’s funny or meaningful. Twitter too.Ī first-rate Jewish joke-whether told by a Talmudic sage, Sigmund Freud, Joan Rivers, Jerry Seinfeld, Sarah Silverman or your grandmother-does more than make you laugh it illuminates complex corners of the Jewish psyche, culture and history. It turns out that even the Talmud is teeming with surprising zingers. Some Jewish jokes have been around for centuries and are passed from generation to generation others might have made their first appearance this week. Jokes, including the Jewish variety, are a staple of Western civilization. ![]()
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