Jewish humor Quotes

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

I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.

— William Klein

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

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the…

— Robert Klein

Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and…

— Mike Nichols

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

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

“The reflexive sense of wonder, of crying over a medal of the Madonna del Granduca and not knowing why, will be mostly…

— Gary Shteyngart

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

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

“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