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Wasn't prepared to do an accent?
Imagine if the guy who played Babu refused to do an accent.
Danny Hoch, a playwright and performing artist was asked to do an episode of Seinfeld. He wasn't prepared for what he got.
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Birds of a feather flock together?
Wasn't prepared to do an accent?
Imagine if the guy who played Babu refused to do an accent.
Well, come to think of it, Seinfeld rarely 'made fun' of Jews, but everyone else was fair game.
OMG, the entire show is based on the neuroses of two Jews. You aren't thinking at all.
Uncle Morty?
His parents...off the top of my head - his own hangups and paranoias.
Yes he did make fun of Jews.
"right?", "right?", "you know?" "diwector"someone get this jackass a speech therapist
Last edited by MaNuMaNiA; 11-28-2006 at 06:28 PM.
Morty was his dad.
Uncle Leo was dishonest and cheap.
George was really cheap.
George's relationship with his mom was a pretty classic Jewish stereotype.
Elaine's boss and his son during his bar mitzvah.
Gossipy Rabbi Glickman.
The list goes on.
But the joke was on the neurosis, not the ethnicity. Big difference.
And really, the neurotic urban Jew is its own stereotype.
so he was asked to do a Spanish accent as a pool boy, SO THE WHAT!!?? Personally, I don't believe this walking stereotype. I bet the dude was canned and is freaking bitter, but if it was true, what is the big ing deal? seriously??
Show biz Jews have have scruples and principles about anything other than making $$ ?
oops, is that a stereotype?
Goddamn, Dan; are you ever wrong?
Anti-den e-ism?!?
Looks like we have a serial offender....
MSNBCJust when it seemed Michael Richards was about to leave the most troubling incident of his career behind, his publicist is having to explain how the comic could consider himself to be Jewish.
Last week, crisis-management expert Howard Rubenstein acknowledged that Richards had shouted anti-Semitic remarks in an April standup comedy routine — well before his appearance earlier this month in which he harangued hecklers with the n-word. But he defended Richards’ language about Jews, saying that the comic “is Jewish. He’s not anti-Semitic at all. He was role-playing.”
As Rubenstein’s assertion circulated, Jewish organizations and commentators pointed out that the man who played Cosmo Kramer on “Seinfeld” has not converted to Judaism and neither of his parents are Jewish.
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“Technically, not having been born by blood as Jewish and not formally going into a conversion, it was purely his interpretation of having adopted Judaism as his religion,” Rubenstein told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “He told me, ‘I’m Jewish,’ when I asked him.
“He said there were two mentors who raised him and who had a big influence on his life, and they were Jewish. He said, ‘I agree with the concepts and the religious beliefs of Judaism and I’ve adopted Judaism as my religion,”’ Rubenstein said. “He really thinks of himself as Jewish.”
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