Yakov Smirnoff has been in the comedy business for more than 30 years. He knows how to make people laugh. Now, he’s trying to show everyone just how important laughter is when it comes to relationships.
Rabbi David Lau, the newly elected chief rabbi of Israel, said a remark he made about blacks that was widely condemned as racist was a “joke.”
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela\’s Hugo Chavez lavished each other with praise on Monday, mocked U.S. disapproval and joked about having an atomic bomb at their disposal.
Last week, National Security Adviser James Jones opened up his speech to the Washington Institute with a joke. Sometimes, this strategy works. Sometimes, it fails. It really all depends on the delivery, the setting, and the joke itself. Well, this was a joke about Jews. In a general sense, Jews and money:
Passover is a holiday near and dear to Marc Jaffe\’s heart. So when the \”Seinfeld\” and \”Mad About You\” writer went to a friend\’s house for a seder last year, he was let down when an Elijah\’s entrance gag bombed.
\”They shook the table. I thought, \’You gotta be kidding me,\’\” he said. \”You gotta have better effects than that.\”
\”I have the great good fortune to have an ear to the ground and a great many wonderful colleagues,\” Kahane said of his network of music-world sources, mostly fellow musicians with whom the conductor has formed strong bonds.
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