He was great and at his best perhaps with Johnny Carson.
Does anyone recall his everyone's gotta be someplace?
He was super great at dialect jokes, which of course due to pol. correctness you won't hear too much if any these days. Wow ,,, seeing the comment above this one reminds me of other greats I recall from younger days. I still have some of these in LP form stored in Ca. I remember when Shelly Berman was king too.
There's one Cohen tells about the son who finds his father watching basketball: he's astounded; the old man never watches sports. He says, "Hey, pop: what's the score?" "Seventy-two to seventy." "Who's winning?" "Seventy-two."
Maybe I'm immature, but Henny Youngman never gave "intros" to his jokes. "I first did this mother-in-law joke back in 1956 in Miami Beach. It was written by a young comedy writer by the name of Irv Lipshchitz. Enjoy..."
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mondofzz, Myron Cohen was one of the pioneer's of comedy. He never had to stoop so low as to use curse words. Apparantly you are very young and do not know much about the legendary Myron Cohen.
What a windbag! Who starts a joke by saying, "I've had many requests to do my famous gin rummy joke, and I am only so happy to do so because I know so many people here in the audience tonight play gin rummy and can understand what I'm talking about"? Yeesh...
@mondofzz You don't get that? The subtext of what Cohen said with his introduction was, "I'm about to tell a joke that describes the crazy antics of a wacky subculture. In other words, this joke is about you people!" Instead of merely laughing at the joke, they're all knowingly laughing about themselves.
Wind bag????? Are you like the character Tommy? That deaf dumb and blind kid. Only someone either very young or very uninformed would ask a question like that. Before the internet and TV there was the borscht belt and great comics who use to set up the joke. Do some research before you knock a whole generation of artists, before def comedy jam... hahahaha
Thanks for presenting this one of a kind genius.
OCPD 4 months ago
He was great and at his best perhaps with Johnny Carson.
Does anyone recall his everyone's gotta be someplace?
He was super great at dialect jokes, which of course due to pol. correctness you won't hear too much if any these days. Wow ,,, seeing the comment above this one reminds me of other greats I recall from younger days. I still have some of these in LP form stored in Ca. I remember when Shelly Berman was king too.
Thanks very much for this clip. Appreciated.
betteroffsingle 7 months ago
I used to love this guy on the Ed Sullivan Show.
bigdave55b2 7 months ago
There's one Cohen tells about the son who finds his father watching basketball: he's astounded; the old man never watches sports. He says, "Hey, pop: what's the score?" "Seventy-two to seventy." "Who's winning?" "Seventy-two."
CocteauDalighari 9 months ago
Maybe I'm immature, but Henny Youngman never gave "intros" to his jokes. "I first did this mother-in-law joke back in 1956 in Miami Beach. It was written by a young comedy writer by the name of Irv Lipshchitz. Enjoy..."
mondofzz 1 year ago
Thank you to all who has enjoyed our clip. Kultur offers two On Location DVDs featuring Myron Cohen. If you enjoy this clip, then you'll love the rest of the HBO On Location Series featuring comedians such as Shelley Berman, Pat Cooper, Norm Crosby, Totie Fields, George Kirby, Phyllis Diller, Frank Gorshin, Redd Foxx.
Please visit our website for more details on this and all of our DVDs.
KulturFilms 1 year ago
@KulturFilms Are you releasing the Buddy Hackett one too?
Bogframe 1 year ago
mondofzz, Myron Cohen was one of the pioneer's of comedy. He never had to stoop so low as to use curse words. Apparantly you are very young and do not know much about the legendary Myron Cohen.
Norman36136 1 year ago
What a windbag! Who starts a joke by saying, "I've had many requests to do my famous gin rummy joke, and I am only so happy to do so because I know so many people here in the audience tonight play gin rummy and can understand what I'm talking about"? Yeesh...
mondofzz 1 year ago
@mondofzz Maybe someday when you grow up and actually know anything, you'll understand what a treasure it is to have Myron Cohen on YouTube.
wlipman 1 year ago
@mondofzz You don't get that? The subtext of what Cohen said with his introduction was, "I'm about to tell a joke that describes the crazy antics of a wacky subculture. In other words, this joke is about you people!" Instead of merely laughing at the joke, they're all knowingly laughing about themselves.
bookgirlish 1 year ago
@mondofzz
Wind bag????? Are you like the character Tommy? That deaf dumb and blind kid. Only someone either very young or very uninformed would ask a question like that. Before the internet and TV there was the borscht belt and great comics who use to set up the joke. Do some research before you knock a whole generation of artists, before def comedy jam... hahahaha
thevoice9991 11 months ago
Love this man. Hilarious whether you're Jewish or not. Thanks for posting.
Issara98 1 year ago
Bravo!
BondoFox 1 year ago
I'm voting.
MandremoU 1 year ago
Everbody gotta be someplace.
jpjaworski 1 year ago
That's the first time I have seen him since I was a kid watching Ed Sullivan. He is pretty funny.
FrankMahovlich 1 year ago