Every so often one comes across a joke that is both horrible and
hysterically funny. You feel almost embarrassed laughing but you can't
help yourself. WHY?
Whatever the answer, this is a masterpiece.
Ken
Mark Weiss wrote:
> Told by an insider to an insider, but with the hope that the rest of the
> world is listening? Certainly true of Jewish and Black humor. Tho my mother
> used to say of some Jewish comics, even while tears of laughter rolled down
> her face, that he shouldn't say those things--what would the goyim think?
>
> Rabinowitz is walking down the street in the garment district. Thru the
> traffic on the other side of the street he notices someone who looks
> strangely familiar, and it finally conmes to him--it's Schultz, the most
> vicious guard from the concentration camp. He's dreamed of finding this man
> for 40 years. So he fights his way across the street and struggles thru the
> pedestrians and finds himself face to face with his nemesis. "Schultz," he
> growls, "it's me, Rabinowitz. I've waited years for this moment. You won't
> escape me now!" And he grabs Schultz by the lapel, pausing for a moment in
> sudden admiration. "Nice cloth!"
>
> Told to me by a French Jew in Paris.
>
> If this becomes a thread of ethnic humor I'd be much more comfortable if
> people reported jokes, like the above, that turn on their own ethnicity or
> nationality.
>
> Mark
>
>
> At 08:56 AM 12/19/2003 -0500, Ken Wolman wrote:
>
>> Mark Weiss wrote:
>>
>> > Yeah, it's like the to say the least discomfort when a non-jewish
>> friend
>> > tells a jewish joke, tho among ourselves there's almost nothing else.
>>
>> Probably any ethnic, racial, or religious joke, or comments made about
>> one's
>> sexual orientation, fall under the old rule of the football locker room:
>> "What you see here, what you hear here, let it stay here when you leave
>> here." It's inside humor; and in most but not all cases, there is an
>> unspoken rule that they are told by and to insiders and are not to be
>> shared
>> with/told by people who are not members of the group in question. People
>> learn and tell them of course, but it's considered a secret and guilty
>> pleasure, the love that cannot speak its name:-).
>>
>> If anyone saw the Coen Brothers' film "Raising Arizona," there is a
>> fairly
>> repellent character who seems--not without deliberate construction?--to
>> combine sexual tastelessness with ethnic prejudice. He yammers on to
>> Nicholas Cage's character that he and his wife can't have children
>> "because
>> there's something wrong with my semen" (so who asked?--this is "guy talk"
>> taken to the level of a urologist's office). He also is fond of Polish
>> jokes. At the end of the film, he tells a Polish joke to the wrong
>> guy: an
>> Arizona State Trooper whose nametag reads "Kowalski." Presumably the
>> moving
>> violation ticket he gets is a whopper.
>>
>> Ken
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>
>
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