Take my book, please! Staff favorite holiday gift book ‘A Small Book of Jewish Comedians’ releases this week from @reelartpress In 1978, @time magazine estimated that around 80 percent of professional American comics were Jewish, and Jewish humor remains a foundation stone of American popular culture and humor. This book is not intended as a definitive tome but is instead a joyful and irreverent celebration of great photography and some of the greatest one-liners of the 20th century, ripe in satire, anecdote, self-deprecation and irony. Photos of more than 70 comedians are accompanied by one-liners such as: “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” (Groucho Marx) and “It was a Jewish porno film … one minute of sex and nine minutes of guilt.” (Joan Rivers). FEATURING Woody Allen • Morey Amsterdam • Dave Attell • Sacha Baron Cohen • Roseanne Barr • Jack Benny • Milton Berle • Shelley Berman • Joey Bishop • Lewis Black • Elayne Boosler • David Brenner • Fanny Brice • Albert Brooks • Mel Brooks • Lenny Bruce • George Burns • Red Buttons • Sid Caesar • Eddie Cantor • Jack Carter • Norm Crosby • Billy Crystal • Rodney Dangerfield • Larry David • Totie Fields • Brad Garrett • Gilbert Gottfried • Shecky Greene • Buddy Hackett • George Jessel • Andy Kaufman • Danny Kaye • Alan King • Robert Klein • Steve Landesberg • Fran Lebowitz • Jack E. Leonard • Jerry Lewis • Joe E. Lewis • Richard Lewis • Bill Maher • Marc Maron • Marx Brothers • Groucho Marx • Harpo Marx • Jackie Mason • Bette Midler • Zero Mostel • Jan Murray • Gilda Radner • Carl Reiner • Don Rickles • Ritz Brothers • Joan Rivers • Freddie Roman • Rita Rudner • Mort Sahl • Soupy Sales • Jerry Seinfeld • Peter Sellers • Garry Shandling • Allan Sherman • Sarah Silverman • Phil Silvers • Neil Simon • Bobby Slayton • David Steinberg • Jon Stewart • Jerry Stiller • The Three Stooges • Ed Wynn • Henny Youngman Edited by Tony Nourmand. Introduction by @bobbyslaytonofficial Read more via linkinbio. @asmallbookofjewish #smallbookofjewishcomedians #bobbyslayton #jewishcomedians #holidaygiftbook #giftbook https://www.instagram.com/p/CVBHkEklvNC/?utm_medium=tumblr
