I enjoyed watching Cohen back in the fifties and now, almost 70 years later, I can enjoy his humor again and again.
@pvonberg
8 жыл бұрын
He was the greatest. No one could tell a joke better.Masterly timing and body language and accents. And above all a kind of sweetness of character.
@RavMan40
6 жыл бұрын
Perfectly Stated.
@dtlittlemoore5122
5 жыл бұрын
Jack Benny had better timing than anyone . . . ever.
@spiderjack7854
3 жыл бұрын
Dave chappele
@davidfryer9359
3 жыл бұрын
This is so evident in this amazing video. I long for the days we did not have to swear and be vile in order to be funny! It wasn't funny then and it certainly isn't now! B"H
@charleswinokoor6023
Жыл бұрын
@@dtlittlemoore5122 But Myron was funnier.
@joe_ant1979
7 жыл бұрын
While in HS I found a cassette that was filled with taped stand up from Myron Cohen from '47 & '49. Was devastated when, ironically, I lost the tape. He was one of the first comedians that I heard at a young age. I wanted to become a comedian but never got the nerve to pursue it. Still love listening to stand up comics of all genres and backgrounds.
@nemo227
4 жыл бұрын
He was ALWAYS delightful when I watched him on TV. And I'm enjoying him again.
@deborahcrawford9079
4 жыл бұрын
I saw Myron Cohen as a kid, in Miami, live on the Jackie Gleason show. I could not stop laughing
@mohammedcohen
4 жыл бұрын
"...so bring back da fly...I give you a raisin..." one of my favorite lines ever...
@homeuse3846
2 ай бұрын
what's funny about it?
@mohammedcohen
5 жыл бұрын
As a kid, I'd memorize his routines, along with the 'eccent', and do them at at school for my classmates...
@dtlittlemoore5122
5 жыл бұрын
How'd that go over?
@njoyingtube1
4 жыл бұрын
Still a kydder
@sportsamania
4 жыл бұрын
What a name u got lol no way it’s real
@mohammedcohen
4 жыл бұрын
@@sportsamania it was spozed'ta have been Goldberg, but when I first set it up it was after a few cervezas so I forgiot the PW...next choice was Cohen... Hadda get two names together that didn't 'compute' like 'Hakeem Shapiro' or 'Nunzio O'Brian'...
@irocZ421
9 жыл бұрын
Myron Cohen was one of the Greatest "Borsch Belt" comics ever!! I have his book, "Laughing Out Loud" which I treasure. Myron started out in life as a furrier salesman. He always warmed up to the buyers with some good funny stories, not jokes but funny stories about the business. After hearing that he should try comedy, he did & we are all the better for him. R.I.P.!!
@Bailey2006a
4 жыл бұрын
I loved Myron Cohen as a child.. he starts off speaking like a british toff and BOOOM... it's Brooklyn
@betsylalich4570
5 жыл бұрын
This is timeless American humor. Serve me some Borscht!
@shawnmalone9711
3 жыл бұрын
Ok , but Jerry Lewis will be your waiter , lol!
@sim33009
4 жыл бұрын
When I was young and TV was just starting one of the best was when Myron Cohen was on.
@jeffcolorado
4 жыл бұрын
My favorite Cohen joke: Abe walks in on Eli and asks, "Whatcha doin?" Eli says, "Watching the game". Abe asks, "What's the score?" Eli says "86 to 74". Abe: "Who's winning?" Eli: "86".
@hijodelaisla275
3 жыл бұрын
Stranger walks into a bar outside of Dublin and asks the old man at the bar: "What's the best way to get to Dublin?" "Are you driving or walking?" "Driving." "That would be the best way."
@toresbe
10 жыл бұрын
Jon Stewart mentioned this guy in a bit, so I googled him - what a lovable act! Cynicism to puncture inflated people is great and necessary, but... I wish we could still have some more just... nice comedians once in a while. Who poke gentle fun. Thanks for uploading it.
@Pokyangelfish
5 жыл бұрын
Can't get enough of this guy. Loved his routines.
@bluenosemassmedia2996
5 жыл бұрын
It’s hard to find for love or money a joke that’s clean and also funny
@maccyd53
5 жыл бұрын
A penguin walks into a bar and says to the bartender, "Whisky. No ice..."
@Normalhowaboutyou
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve been in this business about 20 years performing producing writing managing clubs... he was the classic storytelling comedian.
@pfeifferpack
10 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this. I loved Myron Cohen. Such memories of his performances as the family gathered at the TV all laughed together.
@davidappel9113
7 жыл бұрын
excellent
@Nadia930
10 жыл бұрын
Brings back so many funny memories.
@BrandonM10
6 жыл бұрын
Marla Berger god damn, how old ARE you?
@uslines
3 жыл бұрын
Was my Irish-American dad's favorite comedian. So long ago now.
@baronvonnembles
6 жыл бұрын
Great stuff. He was only 49 here but he looks ten years older with the conservative dress and bald head.
@thevintagehouse4891
5 жыл бұрын
A latter-day master of what I think they called "dialect humor", which flourished in the early 20th century.
@musicom67
5 жыл бұрын
He's been watching Gertrude Berg's "The Goldbergs" - same mannerisms and of course, 'dialect'....
@debraleesparks
10 жыл бұрын
I remember watching him, and all the other great comics on the Ed Sullivan show,, back in the early 60's.
@winnifredforbes8712
4 жыл бұрын
Debra Sparks Me too! I bet you're surprised to get a response after six years of waiting!
@debraleesparks
4 жыл бұрын
Winnifred Forbes yes, I sure am !!!
@ruthlewis6678
5 жыл бұрын
Loved this man. He was sooooo funny.
@jaymaynes
5 жыл бұрын
"Bring back the fly, I'll give you a raisin". Funny! :D
@Go1US1Marines
4 жыл бұрын
He was a Sunday night staple on the Ed Sullivan Show. I loved the comics Ed showcased.
@arthur19521
5 жыл бұрын
I saw him perform in Vegas back in 1975. He is amazing.
@phillipecook3227
5 жыл бұрын
Completely new to me. A gentle humour delivered in a style which I'm guessing was rare in the early 1950s? He clearly drank from the wellspring of a rich cultural background ... his reference to WW2 .... extraordinary to think it had only ended 6 years before this broadcast.
@jacqiwei7672
3 жыл бұрын
could you tell where the reference is? i cant for the love of god find where he put in a WW2 reference.
@phillipecook3227
3 жыл бұрын
@@jacqiwei7672 6.00 " the last war". He's speaking in 1951.
@jacqiwei7672
3 жыл бұрын
@@phillipecook3227 thanks haha I guess I didn’t look hard enough 👍
@barbaraeifler390
8 жыл бұрын
Loved. Watching him on Es Sullivan,,,,,,,,,,
@Nonduality
9 жыл бұрын
Masterful, polished, nuanced.
@RavMan40
6 жыл бұрын
Well said...Brother...a joy to watch.
@austinsmith1546
5 жыл бұрын
Nuanced is not at all a correct descriptor for this act.
@jamesfeldman4234
4 жыл бұрын
In my youth, I won a deluxe dinner and show for two as a prize for having the correct answer in a call-in radio show. I remember only my date that evening, the dessert ("flaming" cherries jubilee), and one of the best live shows in my lifetime, with great seats, featuring not one, but three great entertainers performing onstage: Myron Cohen, Joel Grey, and Michel Legrand.
@bobareebop
4 жыл бұрын
Wow! What a lineup!
@stephenperretti8847
4 жыл бұрын
The Kate Smith show. Wow. I'm 74years old. This is a dim memory. I remember those flowers in front of her. Her theme song, I think, was "when the moon comes over the mountain" . In 1951 I was four years old. I think I must have seen a later season. But, maybe, we had a tv then. I'll have to look up the dates of the Donald O'Connor show. I remember that one too.
@stephenmaniloff8493
4 жыл бұрын
I’m 74 also and have similar memories...and you see what my name is....Who knew?😊👍
@stephenperretti8847
4 жыл бұрын
And... You spell your name CORRECTLY !!
@AmericanIsraeliJew
10 жыл бұрын
My father really gets a kick out of his terrific facial expressions.
@riverside9557
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah I love the one he makes at 1:22.
@winstonsmith3070
4 жыл бұрын
The Jewish comedians from this era were the best ever. Myron Cohen was among them.
@RjBenjamin353
6 жыл бұрын
A form of art, gone. Gone forever
@richardleonard4281
6 жыл бұрын
I miss Myron Cohen.
@EliezerPennywhistler
7 жыл бұрын
I LIKE being called "Ladies and Gentlemen"!
@johnhurley7868
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. And a man of good will. I saw him only on Ed Sullivan when I was a kid, and I was lucky.
@opiegoldenberg2640
5 жыл бұрын
My grandparents had a scrapbook of all the hotels that they had visited in the Catskills way back when--flyers and postcards..etc--there was also a photo taken at a dinner table with them and a man who was a dead ringer for Myron--i wonder?
@laceyleblanc8873
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely hilarious! I am new to his work, but I'm hooked! This is proof that you don't have to use fowl language or put anyone down to be funny. He was raw and natural talent!
@jimmyraybob
9 ай бұрын
Fowl language is for the birds.
@mordechai-
5 ай бұрын
Foul language back then would have gotten him censored and blacklisted. Look what happened to Jackie Mason, who only used a gesture, and the Smothers Brothers. Their careers were ruined for years.
@imisstoronto3121
10 жыл бұрын
I remember him on Ed Sullivan; this is right after the war and a lot of comedians coming up were Jewish, from New York and trained on the Borsht Belt. The addition of Yiddish is something I haven't heard in a long time; really miss it.
@blinko656
10 жыл бұрын
What was the Borsh Belt.??
@imisstoronto3121
10 жыл бұрын
the Borscht Belt was the name of an area of the Catskill Mountains in New York State. There were a lot of summer resorts that catered to New Yorkers. Places like Grossingers, Fallsview, the Nevele, etc. They had evening entertainments, where the up and coming comics would try out new material and try to get noticed. Again, this is in the 50's and 60's. Did you ever see Dirty Dancing? That takes place in one of those resorts.
@blinko656
10 жыл бұрын
I did see Dirty Dancing and I see the coralation. The kids stay in the cabin and the parents go to the show. I miss the simple jokes by Dangerfield and Youngmen. Thank You.
@blinko656
10 жыл бұрын
Dangerfield when asked if he thought his operation would go well repled, "If it goes well I will be out in two weeks, if it goes bad I will be out in one hour." He died of complications. True story.
@bartonpercival3216
Жыл бұрын
@@blinko656 "What a crowd, what a crowd. I tell ya I'm alright now but last week I was in rough shape ya know" 👌
@southernexposure123
5 жыл бұрын
It's 50 years later and he's still funny.
@greglapointe1311
5 жыл бұрын
Closer to 70 years and yes, still funny
@southernexposure123
5 жыл бұрын
@@greglapointe1311 Your math is better. lol
@forego49
11 жыл бұрын
Totally amazing video
@jimdavis2385
5 жыл бұрын
Unaware of this great master, but what a pleasure to hear his stories
@writereducator
4 жыл бұрын
I was born two years later, but I'd never heard of him. My loss. He's great.
@josephlemko3027
2 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite comedians. Thanks for posting this clip.👍
@tonygodfrey7813
Жыл бұрын
Missed his comedy for so long. Thinking about it makes me feel old. But happy memories.
@gregorybuell8637
5 жыл бұрын
The last one about the 3 statues is the best I'm still laughing
@CarlDuke
11 жыл бұрын
I remember comedian Jack Carter's line. He said, Did you hear the news? Kate Smith just decided to break up and become a trio.
@shalomcohen1309
2 жыл бұрын
Oy, Myron, you still give me such nochess! 💕
@joehiggs100
4 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for posting. An archive gem. I'd never heard of this guy before tonight.
@davidpiercy2898
5 жыл бұрын
Myron was SUPER....shows comics today it is possible to get laughs without being vulgar.....
@yaknbo
10 жыл бұрын
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you....
@depaola63
5 жыл бұрын
Kate Smith !! ...I'll bet 1951 was a GREAT year to be thriving in the USA !! ( I was born in 1963)
@markdrinkard4150
5 жыл бұрын
Now the snowflakes of America are labeling her a racist,, so sad how this natiln is going!
@gwarlow
5 жыл бұрын
Nicky Depaola Yes. You could buy a nice house on one salary, the media was actually independent (not owned by one of six major corporations and the police patrolled on foot and knew (and spoke with) people that they passed on the street. On the other hand, Afro-Americans were riding at the back of the bus, could not drink from the water fountains of white people and could not enter certain restaurants. The "good old days" were not without flaws. We seem to often think that the past/future was/will be better than the present. Fascinating.
@davidmurray380
8 жыл бұрын
My fathers favorite comic! Never a dirty word. You don't need four letter words to be funny!
@johnnycash187
7 жыл бұрын
I disagree, if he would've said cunt it would've been a hundred and ten percent funnier. This comedy does not hold up at all today.
@warren52nz
5 жыл бұрын
_"You don't need four letter words to be funny!"_ Sure. And you don't need pepper on your eggs either. Get it???
@beaugeste2899
5 жыл бұрын
Johnny Cash -Humor has little or nothing to do with cussing-unless your intellect is that of a seven year old.
@dtlittlemoore5122
5 жыл бұрын
True. TV has standards for families as do cruise ships and churches. However, if I'm in a nightclub or a bar I want to hear the language of my environment. And if I brought my mom or minor daughter there I should be chastised, not the comedian.
@montsemajanmartinez9824
4 жыл бұрын
"a sharp mind doesn't need a rough word to get a bite" -author unknown
@CarlDuke
11 жыл бұрын
Wow. Just as I remember Myron from his Ed Sullivan show appearances. Haven't seen anything like this on youtube before. And farblunjet is French, hmmmmmmmmm. Myron began his career as a garment salesman who told jokes to customers. He was so funny that people suggested he become a comedian, which he did. Please keep posting these great items.
@maxforgottenscuttlebuttskits
5 жыл бұрын
*falls down a flight of stairs and is an hour late to work “So this took you an hour? -boss
@nospape1
4 ай бұрын
Amazing! Anyone in the family could listen to a comic like Myron Cohen.
@mikehartman7261
5 жыл бұрын
I can't help but believe that Jackie Mason was heavily influenced by this man.
@hitty9
5 жыл бұрын
Who wasn't influenced by everyone else back then. They were all buds!
@pauljones2255
3 жыл бұрын
Both Myron Cohen and Jackie Mason played the two Jewish robot tailors in Woody Allen's Sleeper.
@catherinehazur7336
2 жыл бұрын
I agree 100%.
@winnifredforbes8712
4 жыл бұрын
I love Jewish humour. Their sarcasm is beautiful!
@alguienconunvideojuego4606
Жыл бұрын
No.
@ebnphlo
Жыл бұрын
5:51-6:58 😂 perfectly delivered & tastefully communicated in one minute!
@anonymousmobster2444
3 жыл бұрын
I love how easy it was to make people laugh back then
@charleswinokoor6023
3 жыл бұрын
Cohen had an extremely creative comic mind.
@tommunyon2874
Жыл бұрын
I still remember some of his jokes after all these many years, but can't tell them with the twist he was able to put on them.
@obinnaokaroh7786
2 жыл бұрын
Absolute class !
@cats0182
5 жыл бұрын
Borscht Belt humor. It and the hotels that allowed it to be perfected and the comedians who held us spell-bound are all gone.
@gardensofthegods
5 жыл бұрын
I'm curious about that ... can you please tell me if they still have a lot of Comedy going on nowadays in this sickeningly "politically correct " environment where NOBODY is allowed to say ANYTHING about anyone or anything at all without being made to look like a monster ...and people being so HURT and offended . Can you please tell me if you would know if comedy is Alive and Well in that area ? ... or if that is a thing of the past anyway irrespective of the political climate of today ?
@beaugeste2899
5 жыл бұрын
gardensofthegods -Correct. Comedy in Russia is dead. In America we have the whining altreich to laff at, fortunately.
@LoveAlwaysAlwaysLove
5 жыл бұрын
@@gardensofthegods Thin skin today seems to have started at the top with trumps skin as the skinniest. This too shall pass I pray.
@brucekaraus7330
4 жыл бұрын
@@gardensofthegods You need to see more comedians.
@brucekaraus7330
4 жыл бұрын
You mean the places that allowed Jews to perform? Like the Grits Circuit, the Chitlin' Circuit and the Bible Belt there were areas that only allowed certain races, religions, etc to perform. Maybe because anyone can perform anywhere now? If you want to perfect your act, you have to appeal to more than one group.
@ccbones7551
4 жыл бұрын
palm beach had me 🤣
@stevenj9970
Жыл бұрын
WTH!!!!!!!!!! Amazing, I really didn't know him but I'm gonna check out his other videos!!!!!!!!!!
@TomRivieremusic
4 жыл бұрын
He was a real Yedish comedian. You can't get any more Jewish than this guy. I remember his name when I was very young.
@MichaelandCathy1999
4 жыл бұрын
Myron, Benny, Sid, Hope, Berle, Buttons, Skelton, et al, were all products of doing the Catskills and the “Borscht Belt” for years and 1,000’s of show during the height of the Burlesque days. I remember watching in B&W on Sunday evenings the great “leftover” shows of burlesque times , shows like Sullivan, Allen, Burns etc. Last show I remember doing that was Carol Burnett, and that was a hoot as well. You can’t return to the past, but I wish the past would catch up to these days and show this entitled, me-first generation what true showmanship was. But...that’s just me.
@margotbronski2234
5 жыл бұрын
I remember this guy. So funny.
@kraftpr
10 жыл бұрын
Comedians today should take a lesson from Mr. Cohen, a true gentleman. Not a vulgar word.
@Haim007
10 жыл бұрын
He is a Story teller Bill Cosby
@Marsbonfire007
5 жыл бұрын
My father had one of his albums. He let a GD go every once in awhile.
@FaizanAhmad-ju4zq
5 жыл бұрын
Not a vulgar word because he was not born in the vulgar world which exists today.
@billknoop
5 жыл бұрын
He was what they call -- FUNNY. Today's "comedians" and audiences haven't got a clue.
@dtlittlemoore5122
5 жыл бұрын
@@billknoop What WHO call funny? AARP long standing members?! He worked me into a smile. However, if TODAY'S comedians and audience are both clueless then both are happy, right? Are you saying Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and Felipe Esparza aren't funny? Maybe you need a time machine and a MAKE AMERICA BORING AGAIN cap.
@MrJoeybabe25
10 жыл бұрын
I loved Myron Cohen and the other Yiddish comics like Gertrude Berg. One thing I've wondered about though is as Jewish as they were in voice and appearance, did the word "Jew" ever come out of their mouths. Joe in Israel.
@RavMan40
6 жыл бұрын
This rules....!!!!
@georgefranklin4872
5 жыл бұрын
Afraid I'm too young to appreciate this - I wasn't born till 1954
@charlesstuart7290
4 жыл бұрын
My brother could never tell a joke articulately - we used to sarcastically call him Myron Cohen.
@patszer8314
5 ай бұрын
This guy is a riot!
@jaygee9915
9 жыл бұрын
loved him at kutchers hotel
@MichaelNMarcus
10 жыл бұрын
Now I know where my father got his material and dialect.
@SuperAdamh1
9 жыл бұрын
My father saw him perform in Yiddish.
@dtlittlemoore5122
5 жыл бұрын
It was probably funnier
@13wayz70
4 жыл бұрын
Adam Herbst YEAH RIGHT!
@alexiswinter6948
4 жыл бұрын
They're all gone.
@Carl-LaFong1618
3 жыл бұрын
I saw him perform in Paulm Springs.
@davidgray8191
5 жыл бұрын
Met him in Las Vgas in 1971
@BRONXGIRL10
11 ай бұрын
Happy birthday, Myron (1902)!
@ianredpath8359
4 жыл бұрын
Real comedy.
@ryanellis4474
2 жыл бұрын
Lovely Thank you for posting I miss Norm MacDonald Triple-jabbed Gilbert Gottfried, who died of a “heart condition,” is another lost legend I miss I will pray for America. Please pray for me. God Bless you.
@bernarddover1442
6 жыл бұрын
genius
@nickmad887
9 жыл бұрын
clean fun
@rockinyouallnight
5 ай бұрын
I met Cohen at Lewis's Bistro & Delicatessen in San Francisco back in the old days. Proprietor Freddy Lewis always told me that Myron was a lousy tipper ...until his 3rd glass of Manischewitz.
@Patton7790
Жыл бұрын
I’m 45 and would like more.
@hugohackenbush1554
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful comedian.
@timothyjones3410
5 жыл бұрын
I remember him on Ed Sullivan like, in the early 70's. He had become a shrunken little old man and had lost that urbane quality. Told a joke about a man entering a bake shop at night from a blizzard to buy a single bagel. One bagel? In a snowstorm? Is it for your wife? What, the customer retorts: My MOTHER would send me out on a night like this? My parents were rolling, but they had grown up in the east, and we were just little Floridians..
@nahmaninisithole2734
5 жыл бұрын
Very good Jewish comedian !, Always love to hear and see Kate Smith! I must admit though I was expecting to see a guy with an accordion with a big smile and playing very fast! (Let's see if anybody gets the reference).
@rickkellman5702
5 жыл бұрын
Myron Floren...Lawrence Welk Show. Gotcha!
@fewerbeansplease
5 жыл бұрын
Damn...I thought the reference was to Leonard Cohen. Ha!Ha!
@Joseph-di3zs
5 жыл бұрын
How far comedy has come.
@theappraiserlady
8 ай бұрын
Great
@citizen1163
4 жыл бұрын
I'm not Jewish, never been to America but LOVE Jewish humour! So much that is good has come from jewish immigrants.
@georgeparkins777
8 жыл бұрын
Who spill on the floor? He did! Who, me?!!
@EliezerPennywhistler
7 жыл бұрын
Um, it's "spit". Open your ears.
@annchurchill2638
6 ай бұрын
Nice to hear the voice of Kate Smith again,
@pamelaarescurrinaga3295
5 жыл бұрын
I remember Myron Cohen, we watched Kate Smith on some friends of our families television. KATE SMITH. KATE SMITH. And, once more for good measure : KATE SMITH
@gardensofthegods
5 жыл бұрын
@@majordendrocopos . ...what ....
@majordendrocopos
5 жыл бұрын
gardensofthegods It is on KZitem and was recorded in 1931.
@mu99ins
5 жыл бұрын
@@majordendrocopos I think you are correct, majordendrocopos. Almost as racist as hip hop, if not more, depending on your propensity for being offended and loyalty to whichever racial, cultural or gender grouping.
@majordendrocopos
5 жыл бұрын
mu99ins America in 1931 was openly and unashamedly a segregated racist country, but I am unable to decide whether the song is meant to be serious or ironic. Even the title feels very wrong in 2019.
@DBEdwards
5 жыл бұрын
A comedy legend
@RavMan40
6 жыл бұрын
Palem springs.....Brilliant...
@davemattia
Жыл бұрын
I like how they hid Kate Smith's girth behind a flower arrangement.
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