Trivia, Humor & Satire

Couple Finally Opens Mysterious Wedding Gift From 9 Years Previously

Even though they had had their fair share of fights and scuffles, a little wrapped box signed “DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 1ST DISAGREEMENT” remained unopened in the Gunn family’s closet. style=”display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px” data-ad-client=”ca-pub-8420654331411867″ data-ad-slot=”1313712966″> The box had been a wedding gift to Kathy and Brandon Gunn from their Great Aunt Allison. Aunt Allison and her husband […]

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Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA

Jewish trivia quiz: Beatles on American tour

By Mark D. Zimmerman   MELVILLE, New York — The Beatles: Eight Days a Week–The Touring Years, a documentary directed by Ron Howard, opened this past Friday. The film covers the years 1962-1966 as the Beatles performed more than 800 live concerts around the world. What Jewish-related event took place during the Beatles 1964 tour of America? A. The Beatles

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Trivia, Humor & Satire

‘Just Kidding’: New TV series ‘Downtown Abie’

By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK – Downtown Abie, a series about the shifting fortunes and intriguing rise, fall and recovery of a conflicted Jewish man and his family, will debut this October on public television stations throughout the nation. It is just “a happy coincidence,” its producers say, that the show’s title so closely resembles

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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Humoring the headlines: September 12, 2016

SAN DIEGO─ Last week the Libertarian Party candidate for President Gary Johnson was asked what he thought the United States should do about Aleppo.  After initially not recognizing what Aleppo was, he guessed the interviewer was referring to the fifth Marx Brother. * Hillary Clinton insulted Donald Trump’s supporters by claiming that half of them

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Jewish trivia question: Gene Wilder, z”l

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — The great Gene Wilder, star of such wonderful movies as Blazing Saddles, The Producers, The Frisco Kid, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and Young Frankenstein, passed away last week. How did Wilder describe the role of Judaism in his life? A. I’m not at all religious, although I am certainly Jewish–which, to me, means that

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Humoring the headlines: September 1, 2016

  By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ While Donald Trump was purportedly softening, Anthony Weiner was hardening.  Trump insinuated that Weiner’s compulsive sexting cast suspicion on Hillary’s judgment because Weiner might have been reading classified information allegedly sent by Hillary to his wife Huma Abedin.  Alternative explanations are that Weiner is just a schmuck or that

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire