Old Jews Telling Jokes (2009) Review

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(More customer reviews)If ever there was a film (though this is really a digitally shot video) whose title told it like it is, this is it. For 44 minutes you watch, and hear, 16 men and two women - all Jewish and "moderately" old - telling jokes. Some tell a couple so there are 38 jokes in all. The only issue is whether the storytellers are "old". "Old is a relative term and most of the participants - each of who stands before an unseen small (based on the laughter) audience while a white curtain acts as scenery. Most are between 65 and 70 years old with the eldest being 75.
Think of this as "Comedy Night at your local synagogue". None are professionals but they have a good deadpan delivery. Some of the jokes hit you about 10 seconds after you hear the drum thud at the end. And many are REALLY funny. A few of the storytellers (there are short funny stories as well as one-two jokes) cover other ethnicities (Italians, for one) but most are the Jews laughing at themselves. There are quite a few "risqué" ones and private parts are often described so don't play this in front of your young kids. (They probably wouldn't get the joke anyway).
There are no real Special Features. There is a "find a joke" option - which is just the Chapter index and a "hear a new joke" option, which just displays a web site where you can hear more.
It is a lot of fun and makes a great gift for that parent or relative for a birthday or holiday. Giving the gift of laughter is a blessing and there's enough fun here to entertain the viewer for 44 minutes.
Steve Ramm
"Anything Phonographic"

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Just what it's called: Old Jews telling jokes. The 18 joke tellers featured aren't professionals; rather they're doctors, lawyers, a garment worker, a wine salesman - just like your favorite Jewish uncle or grandparent. With wonderful timing and mannerisms, and bouncy klezmer music backing them up, these funny old alter kockers deliver, with great delight, the off-color and risqué jokes from a bygone era.

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Religulous (2008) Review

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(More customer reviews)You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.
If you build a diorama with animatronic dinosaurs and children coexisting, it must be true.
Dialing a phone on Sabbath is forbidden, dialing a phone with a stylus on Sabbath is allowed.
You will learn all this and more from Bill Maher's hilarious mockumentary, Religulous.
It is not often that a movie is so subversive, funny and educational all at once. Bill Maher certainly has his fair share of ego, but he has the comic chops to support it. In some of his interviews I wish he had gone further, but to do that he would have to have been more serious, less funny and ultimately have made a different movie.
But the movie he makes is brilliant, it shines a spotlight on some of the serious questions and inconsitencies in religion that people allow themselves to ignore. And his ultimate message is one that everyone needs to hear; there are things in this world that are not explained, and that's OK! Not every gap in human knowledge is God-shaped. Doubt is good, doubt makes us ambitious and inquisitive and humble. And that's not a bad way to be.

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COMEDIAN & TV HOST BILL MAHER TAKES A PILGRIMAGE ACROSS THE GLOBE ON A MIND-OPENING JOURNEY INTO THE ULTIMATE TABOO: QUESTIONING RELIGION.

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