by Sharon Udasin

Posing in a black-banded khaki-colored fedora as kitschy klezmer Muzak introduces his routine, Neil Lawner gestures loudly with outstretched arms and tells a joke about newlywed Luigi, who rode a train to Florida with his new bride Virginia, and tragically, mistook the station stop “Norfolk” for a prohibition in his marriage consummation.

Lawner’s routine, along with nearly 30 others, are part of a new collection posted on OldJewsTellingJokes.com, a Web site that features the stand-up routines of everyone’s favorite Jewish uncles, fathers and grandpas. The staged clips were the brainchild of 42-year-old Sam Hoffman of GreeneStreet Films, who got the idea after listening to over four decades of his father Barney’s joke routines. Continue reading…