Famous for feature-length Jewish humor: The comedian, director and actor Mel Brooks makes an audience of millions and himself laugh.
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The Christian doesn’t laugh. Have you read anywhere how Jesus laughs? If so, then you read that in a Jewish joke. Or you read it because Jesus read a Jewish joke, because a Jewish joke makes everyone laugh, even Jesus. Sometimes you don’t know whether you’re allowed to laugh at a Jewish joke. However, you don’t know until after the fact, you were already laughing beforehand anyway, because when you hear a Jewish joke, everyone has to laugh, even if they shouldn’t have laughed in retrospect. “Mojsche, can you make an anti-Semitism joke?” “Only for money!” Are you laughing now? It is well known that Jewish jokes and Jewish stories always make you cry as well as laugh. The question is always: more one or more the other? More for laughs – then they call them Jewish stories. More to cry – then they call it Jewish history.
And while we’re on the subject of stories, I’ll also tell you a story about someone, none other than Aaron Eppelzweig. If you can say that someone has typical Jewish wit, it would be Eppelzweig, because he and his stories make everyone laugh terribly, and that would be the case with this story, but Aaron Eppelzweig also had that in addition to his Jewish wit Jewish appearance, as a bonus, so to speak. If you can say that someone looks typically Jewish, which of course you can only say if you are Jewish yourself, and then only if you either look typically Jewish or specifically mention that you are Jewish, if you do If you can say that about anyone, then especially Aaron Eppelzweig. This in itself wouldn’t be so bad, but Eppelzweig was on the run and encountered a group of drunken German soldiers with a dog at night. That wouldn’t be so bad either, because Eppelzweig initially went unnoticed. But then the dog barked at him, the soldiers came over and were happy that the Jew had run to them himself. One of them pointed the machine gun and shouted: “Jew?” Eppelzweig answered: “No.” “No?” asked the German incredulously and pointed at Eppelzweig’s nose. “No? Then why so much here?” “That?” replied Eppelzweig. “A lot here, a lot there too.” And showed himself between the legs. The drunk soldiers had to laugh terribly because everyone had to laugh terribly at Aaron Eppelzweig, patted him on the shoulder and let him go. They obviously didn’t know what a typical Jewish joke was.
Because Jewish humor is of course not the same as German humor. German humor – I would like to say it’s a broad field, but… No, of course it’s not true that the Germans don’t have a sense of humor. You have a lot. They just keep him under strict lock and key and let him out on his own during free periods set by the prison authorities. Does the joke have a pass? Maybe he’s not allowed here at all. Maybe it’s an aimless, vagabond joker with no permanent address? Can he even identify himself as a joke? Maybe he’s just a serious person in disguise?
This is Prussian irony education. You have to know exactly when and what you’re laughing about. It’s also pretty embarrassing when you laugh in the wrong place. But it’s even more embarrassing when you don’t laugh in the right place. A German joke is when you laugh because it’s funnier than reality. A Jewish joke is when you just laugh when the reality is even sadder. As Mordechaj Bronfen always said: An old Jewish joke is that it represents the new German reality.
Ezzes von Was
Magnus Terhorst
Alexander Estis, a freelance Jew without a permanent address, writes so much nonsense in this column that it will make you sick to your stomach.
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