Jewish Humor
ISRAEL Game: Funny Or Offensive?
A female robot with the acronym I.S.R.A.E.L. that marauds a middle-class suburban neighborhood killing children — over-the-top satire or below-the-belt anti-Semitism?
That question was on the minds of Jewish activists and commentators this week after Comedy Central launched its online video game, “I.S.R.A.E.L. Attack!,” to accompany the new movie spin-off of its popularly offensive cartoon reality series, “Drawn Together.”
In the original version of the game, a demonic network executive shouts to a curly-haired producer with a loudspeaker for a face, “You lied to me, Jew producer!” The exec is angry that the characters are still alive despite the show being canceled.
In response, the executive decides to unleash a robot he calls “I.S.R.A.E.L.” (“The Intelligent, Smart, Robot, Animation, Eraser, Lady”) to do the dirty work, deeming that “she will erase them all, forever!” From there, the player can use the keyboard and mouse to kill characters like little girls (700 points), older men (400 points) and defecating cows (500 points). Continue reading…
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…
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