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Colbert Is a One-Man Birthright Trip

by | September 7th, 2012

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It's all there: Phish yarmulkes, pronouncing McDonald's funny, someone wining "that kind of itches." The only thing missing is an ex-Israeli soldier with a rifle walking behind you and a certain Jewish sexual tension as thick as thick Jewish hair. And this is why we get our news from Colbert instead of those CNN bores; you'd never see Wolf Blitzer putting on a tallis (that shawl thing) – unless it was his grandson's Bar Mitzvah.

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The One About Old Jews on Broadway

by | May 1st, 2012

"OLD MAN: Doctor, I can’t pee.

DOCTOR: Tell me, Mr. Moskowitz, how old are you?

OLD MAN: I’m 94.

DOCTOR: You’ve peed enough.

Believe me: It’s a lot funnier live. So is this one: Why didn’t Hitler drink? Mean drunk. Or the one about Feldman, who’s pulled over by a cop on the Long Island Expressway. Cop says, 'Sir, do you know that your wife fell out of the car a mile ago?' And Feldman says, 'Thank God—I thought I was going deaf.' But if you place classic jokes in the hands of outstanding comic actors, they become completely new." – Daniel Okrent in New York Magazine, explaining why, and eventually how, he brought Old [...]

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