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The Jewish comedians who performed at these resorts developed a style of humor that became very popular in the entertainment industry. Borscht Belt humor is characterized by stereotypical Jewish traits, such as SelfDeprecation, [[JewsLoveToArgue insults]], [[JewishComplaining complaints]], [[AwfulWeddedLife marital bickering]], hypochondria, wordplay and liberal use of [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Yiddish]]. The AlterKocker character type was developed here as well.
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The Jewish comedians who performed at these resorts developed a style of humor that became very popular in the entertainment industry. Borscht Belt humor is characterized by stereotypical Jewish traits, such as SelfDeprecation, [[JewsLoveToArgue insults]], [[JewishComplaining complaints]], [[AwfulWeddedLife marital bickering]], hypochondria, {{Hypochondria}}, wordplay and liberal use of [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Yiddish]]. The AlterKocker character type was developed here as well.
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The Jewish comedians who performed at these resorts developed a style of humor that became very popular in the entertainment industry. Borscht Belt humor is characterized by stereotypical Jewish traits, such as SelfDeprecation, [[JewsLoveToArgue insults]], [[JewishComplaining complaints]], marital bickering, hypochondria, wordplay and liberal use of [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Yiddish]]. The AlterKocker character type was developed here as well.
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The Jewish comedians who performed at these resorts developed a style of humor that became very popular in the entertainment industry. Borscht Belt humor is characterized by stereotypical Jewish traits, such as SelfDeprecation, [[JewsLoveToArgue insults]], [[JewishComplaining complaints]], [[AwfulWeddedLife marital bickering, bickering]], hypochondria, wordplay and liberal use of [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Yiddish]]. The AlterKocker character type was developed here as well.
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* In some iterations of his backstory in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', this is where Krusty the Klown's career begqan.
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* The blacklisted comedian Hecky Brown in ''Film/TheFront''.
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* ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'''s [[ThePornomancer Danny]] will invoke this at times and will often tell stories of his FishOutOfWater father which can resemble this.
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* Alan interviewed a Borscht Belt style comedian in the Las Vegas episode of ''KnowingMeKnowingYouWithAlanPartridge''. This being Alan, he failed to get most of the comedian's humor and then told an offensive Jewish joke.
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* Alan interviewed a Borscht Belt style comedian in the Las Vegas episode of ''KnowingMeKnowingYouWithAlanPartridge''.''Series/KnowingMeKnowingYouWithAlanPartridge''. This being Alan, he failed to get most of the comedian's humor and then told an offensive Jewish joke.
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* Mel Brook's ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' features a lot of borscht belt style comedy, including a sequence where Brooks plays a stand-up comedian in ancient Rome. There are cameos by a number of borscht belt comedians, including Sid Caesar, Jackie Mason and Henny Youngman.
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* Mel Brook's ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' features a lot of borscht belt Borscht Belt style comedy, including a sequence where Brooks plays a stand-up comedian in ancient Rome. There are cameos by a number of borscht belt Borscht Belt comedians, including Sid Caesar, Jackie Mason and Henny Youngman.
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* Alan interviewed a Borscht Belt style comedian in the Las Vegas episode of ''KnowingMeKnowingYouWithAlanPartridge''. This being Alan, he failed to get most of the comedian's humor and then told an offensive Jewish joke.
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* Catskill from ''{{Film/Heartbeeps}}'' is a standup comedian robot modeled after a bad Borcht Belt comedian, complete with a database full of horrible Henny Youngman style jokes.
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* The musical ''Top Banana'' gives this sort of background to its comedian protagonist, Jerry Biffle, in the OpeningChorus: "He was found on a Catskill peak / Where they booked him for one split week."
* The musical ''Top Banana'' gives this sort of background to its comedian protagonist, Jerry Biffle, in the OpeningChorus: "He was found on a Catskill peak / Where they booked him for one split week."
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"Borscht Belt" is a style of Jewish comedy. The actual Borscht Belt is a region in the Catskill Mountains of [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkState upstate New York]] that was a popular resort destination in the 1920s through the 1970s for Jews who were excluded from other resorts. Due to the heavily Ashkenazi ancestry of New York Jews, the area is named for borscht, a type of beet soup popular in Central and Eastern Europe.
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"Borscht Belt" is a style of Jewish comedy. The actual Borscht Belt is a region in the Catskill Mountains of [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkState upstate New York]] that was a popular resort destination in the 1920s through the 1970s for Jews who were excluded from other resorts. Due to the [[AllJewsAreAshkenazi heavily Ashkenazi ancestry ancestry]] of New York Jews, the area is named for borscht, a type of beet soup popular in Central and Eastern Europe.
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* Mel Brook's ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartOne'' ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' features a lot of borscht belt style comedy, including a sequence where Brooks plays a stand-up comedian in ancient Rome. There are cameos by a number of borscht belt comedians, including Sid Caesar, Jackie Mason and Henny Youngman.
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The Jewish comedians who performed at these resorts developed a style of humor that became very popular in the entertainment industry. Borscht Belt humor is characterized by stereotypical Jewish traits, such as SelfDeprecation, [[JewsLoveToArgue insults]], [[JewishComplaining complaints]], marital bickering, hypochondria, wordplay and liberal use of [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Yiddish]].
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* ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'''s [[ThePornomancer Danny]] will invoke this at times and will often tell stories of his FishOutOfWater father which can resemble this.
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"Borscht Belt" is a style of Jewish comedy. The actual Borscht Belt is a region in the Catskill Mountains of [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkState upstate New York]] that was a popular resort destination in the 1920s through the 1970s for Jews who were excluded from other resorts. Due to the heavily Ashkenazi ancestry of New York Jews, the area is named for borscht, a type of beet soup popular in Central and Eastern Europe.
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* ''Series/TheNanny'' often indulges in Borscht Belt comedy, being centered around its Jewish-American protagonist.
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Sellers was a Jewish comedic actor, but he didn\'t have a Borscht Belt style
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* ''ComingToAmerica'' features Eddie Murphy performing as an old New York Jew who tells a classic Borscht Belt joke: An old Jew asks a waiter to taste his soup, refusing to elaborate further. The waiter finally agrees to taste it and asks where the spoon is. The Jew smiles and says, "Ah ''ha!''"
* In ''{{Goodfellas}}'', Henry and Karen watch Henny Youngman after their famous [[TheOner steady-cam walk]] into the theater. He tells the classic joke, "I take my wife everywhere, but she finds her way home!" Youngman's trouble with his lines was the biggest obstacle to getting the shot.
* In ''{{Goodfellas}}'', Henry and Karen watch Henny Youngman after their famous [[TheOner steady-cam walk]] into the theater. He tells the classic joke, "I take my wife everywhere, but she finds her way home!" Youngman's trouble with his lines was the biggest obstacle to getting the shot.
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* ''ComingToAmerica'' ''Film/ComingToAmerica'' features Eddie Murphy performing as an old New York Jew who tells a classic Borscht Belt joke: An old Jew asks a waiter to taste his soup, refusing to elaborate further. The waiter finally agrees to taste it and asks where the spoon is. The Jew smiles and says, "Ah ''ha!''"
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* ''DirtyDancing'' is set at a Borscht Belt resort, though Borscht Belt comedy does not play a major role in the movie.
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* Buddy on ''TheDickVanDykeShow'' is a former Borscht Belt comedian turned comedy scriptwriter.
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* Any role played by Creator/MelBrooks in his own movies is most likely an example. Most notable though is the Rabbi in ''RobinHoodMenInTights''.
* In ''ThePrincessBride'', Miracle Max and his wife are borscht belt-style characters, with their shrill bickering, haggling over money, complaining, and Yiddish accents.
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* Catskill from ''{{Film/Heartbeeps}}'' is a standup comedian robot modeled after a bad Borcht Belt comedian, complete with a database full of horrible Henny Youngman style jokes.
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* Jimmy Barrett from ''Series/MadMen'' is an old-school Jewish insult comic. His JerkAss persona gets him in trouble starting with his EstablishingCharacterMoment and he seems pretty unhappy, but he gets to deliver a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Don for sleeping with his wife.