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Listening to a recording of the Rat Pack live at the Sands
Posted on 2/2/14 at 2:55 pm
Posted on 2/2/14 at 2:55 pm
must have been sometime in the late 50's early 60's....
maybe someone here could help me understand a few things:
first off, some of the stuff was extremely funny and it was amazing to listen to the bantering going back and forth
but listening to Dean Martin going on with some of his jokes "the high holy days are REALLY high at my temple", "Lincoln was Jewish, he got shot in the temple"...it seems to me that a Vegas at that time was a western version of the Catskills with a heavily Jewish clientele, just wondering if anyone around here would know something?
maybe someone here could help me understand a few things:
first off, some of the stuff was extremely funny and it was amazing to listen to the bantering going back and forth
but listening to Dean Martin going on with some of his jokes "the high holy days are REALLY high at my temple", "Lincoln was Jewish, he got shot in the temple"...it seems to me that a Vegas at that time was a western version of the Catskills with a heavily Jewish clientele, just wondering if anyone around here would know something?
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Posted on 2/2/14 at 3:37 pm to vl100butch
Sammy Davis Jr was Jewish, and it was a different time when people weren't as sensitive to jokes
Posted on 2/2/14 at 3:55 pm to hobotiger
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Sammy Davis Jr was Jewish, and it was a different time when people weren't as sensitive to jokes
yeah, i knew he was Jewish...he had a bit going back and forth with Sinatra and Martin...
Posted on 2/2/14 at 4:29 pm to vl100butch
It's not so much that the Vegas customer base was Jewish, it's that those behind the scenes were -- especially comedy writers. Comedy was dominated by Jews in those days, and many comedians would make Jewish references in their work, even if only a fraction of the audience had experience with Jewish life.
Posted on 2/2/14 at 4:42 pm to Kafka
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It's not so much that the Vegas customer base was Jewish, it's that those behind the scenes were -- especially comedy writers. Comedy was dominated by Jews in those days, and many comedians would make Jewish references in their work, even if only a fraction of the audience had experience with Jewish life.
thanks, that makes a lot of sense to me...like Bob Hope's passover joke at the Oscars..."tonight's Oscar night, or as we call it at my house, Passover"
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