Brooks Quote by Gene Wilder

When people, especially from France, would ask me to talk about or so they could write about New York Jewish humor, I'd say I…

— Gene Wilder

Here's the thing about Jews in Hollywood. Not to stereotype, but the Jews I know here are the funniest, most self-deprecating people I know.…

— Ben Feldman

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

— Jim Goad

I've inherited a Jewish sensibility and sense of humor from my parents and all those who came before me. All the Jewish comedians, character…

— Philip Rosenthal

Have you seen the film Histoires D'Amérique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor comes from…

— Chantal Akerman

“One of the traits of sophistication is the capacity to cross borders between different cultural relevancies. Humor is often, intentionally or not, the result…

— Peter L. Berger

Perhaps we could do without tragedy in art - but what about comedy? Is it a coincidence that so many of the best American…

— Tom Malinowski

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

— Robert Klein

I know a lot about Jewish comedians.

— Dana Snyder

Jewish comedians do the best Jewish jokes, and anyone else doing that, they don't have a right to, because they're not coming from that…

— Simon Pegg

My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we always made…

— Maysoon Zayid

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

— Sacha Baron Cohen