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Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner have been doing their “2,000 Year Old Man” routine for a meager 50 years, but apparently that’s long enough for their creation of minor genius—a Yiddish-accented schlub who’s been around for the crucifixion, the inquisition, and the French Revolution, and still his 42,000 children don’t call—to get his own four-disc ...

Midway through Brighton Beach Memoirs, the first play of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy, the playwright has his fictional stand-in make a confession directly to the audience. “How am I going to become a writer,” asks Eugene Morris Jerome, just shy of 15 and already full of artistic yearning, “if I don’t know how to suffer?”
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Certainly Heeb magazine intended to provoke when it included a photograph in their latest number, “The German Issue”, of comedienne Roseanne Barr dressed as Hitler and taking burned, man-shaped cookies out of the oven. (To see the image, click here.) Admirably, the New York City-based “satirical Jewish culture magazine” readily admitted to pushing the envelope ...