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Think, too, of the great stand-up comic Myron Cohen telling the joke about an older Jewish man in Miami who suffers a heart attack right on Collins Avenue and is helped to a stretcher by a young Jewish physician, who puts a pillow under the elderly manβs head and asks: βAre you comfortable?β The old Jew responds, with a Yiddish inflection, βI make a living.
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Michael Krasny (Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means)