Another Quote by Robert Gottlieb

I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of…

— Gene Wilder

I know a lot about Jewish comedians.

— Dana Snyder

Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same…

— Mariel Hemingway

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

— Harland Williams

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

— Thomas Middleditch

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

— Don Rickles

Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World…

— Laura Hillenbrand

Dig: I'm Jewish. Count Basie's Jewish. Ray Charles is Jewish. Eddie Cantor's goyish. B'nai B'rith is goyish; Hadassah, Jewish. If you live in New…

— Lenny Bruce

I don't think Hank Greenberg thought of himself as the first Jewish baseball player - he was a baseball player who happened to be…

— Jose Feliciano

Ted Lewis discovered me; so did Billy Rose, Dick Rodgers and Sam Goldwyn.

— Vera-Ellen

There are a lot of writers from the South who would probably have once figured they needed to go to New York to make…

— Donald Ray Pollock

So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis.…

— Ed Smith