From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Robby Langostino  wrote:   
   >On Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 2:40:58 PM UTC-5, Barry Margolin wrote:   
      
   >>I thought it was clearly a play on the age-old stereotype that   
   >>schwartzes have big schwanzes.   
      
   >>BTW, even though I'm Jewish and heard occasional Yiddish from my parents   
   >>and grandparents, I didn't actually know what "schwartz" meant (other   
   >>than it being a common Jewish surname) until I heard Gabe Kaplan's   
   >>standup routine. The joke that sticks with me all these decades later is:   
      
   >>When I was growing up I thought "schwartz" meant "bomb", because   
   >>everyone said that one of them could destroy a neighborhood.   
      
   >Thanks... Our bubbies and zadies (and Mels) are some schanda, eh? Glad   
   >to hear someone else made the same connection (schwartz>schwanz). But   
   >again it's interesting that no one seems to be saying that quiet part   
   >out loud (until now, and not in this thread). It's not just because its   
   >racist, but because it's just that obscure and awkward even in Yiddish.   
   >Still like to be a fly on the wall at the scene where Mel explains the   
   >joke to the cast.   
      
   No one needed the joke explained. It's not like Mel Brooks was the first   
   person in Hollywood to make a dirty joke in Yiddish.   
      
   Once you analyze a joke, it's no longer funny. You've sucked all the   
   enjoyment out of it. The reason a dirty joke is funny is that you're   
   above dirty jokes, but you can't help yourself but laugh. Part of what's   
   funny is that you're embarassed that you found it funny.   
      
   Just enjoy the movie and don't think too hard about it.   
      
   Hard. Get it?   
      
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