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...reaches heights Catskillian. Surely if one had the chance to show a class of Martians any ten American comedies, this would be included in the green syllabus because, as Alex Haley might point out, of its roots. Like tumescent udders (ech!) Mel Brooks's toors hang, full of borscht and seltzer while the crazed milkmaids Mostel, Wilder, Dick Shawn and Kenneth Mars squeeze and squeeze and squeeze. So much of the American comic strain flows through this film that it makes a pallid commentary like Bob Fosse's Lenny a misrepresentation. That movie tried to deal with other, broader things...

Author: By Jonathan Zeitlin, | Title: FILM | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

...prescribed early breaks. He had been "discovered" on the Tonight Show four times, sung with Don Rickles in Reno and Vegas, played the Copa, Jimmy's and the Rainbow Room in Manhattan, signed a $7,500 contract with Epic Records and toured the top spas on the Borscht Belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The $390,000 Man | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

Whether they hail from the land of beets and borscht, knockwurst and Heineken, bark and betel nuts, or milk and honey, there is one issue on which foreign students at Harvard unanimously and vociferously agree: American food is greasy, bland and tasteless...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: You Are What You Eat | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

...trying to make a new life, and it should be possible to make gentle rueful human comedy out of the attempt to muddle through. But Phyllis is paced and played as if it were a zany farce. Fay is hobbled by an ex-husband whose profession is surely borscht-belt comedy. It is impossible to understand why she ever married this yakster. He is a creature of the anything-for-a-laugh desperation that turns both shows into exercises in false hysterics. Still, they are efforts to find the humor in situations that increasingly large numbers of Americans are actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints: The New Season, Part I | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...alternative is to pull up stakes and head to the Borscht-Belt. You can always be assured of a few side-splitters when the boys go into their Jules Podell/Copa routines. Or how about those uproarious "tough audience" anecdotes. Or those "my wife, my kids, my dog" segues? Guaranteed a few guffaws...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: Misch Masch | 12/12/1974 | See Source »

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