There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him,… — Alan King Copy Share Image
Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
“One of the traits of sophistication is the capacity to cross borders between different cultural relevancies. Humor is often, intentionally or not,… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
“The reflexive sense of wonder, of crying over a medal of the Madonna del Granduca and not knowing why, will be mostly… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Have you seen the film Histoires D'Amérique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share Image
I really wasn't raised with much religion. I mean we practice kind of the basic tradition, but for me it was always… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor. — William Klein Copy Share Image
When people, especially from France, would ask me to talk about or so they could write about New York Jewish humor, I'd… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
