RUTHFULLY YOURS

Schooled by people like Al Sharpton, Imus learned the limits to humor – and so did every other comedian. Don’t go there is the message.

But for Jews, the jokes keep on coming…tasteless, offensive, hurtful, harmful, doesn’t matter. Fair game to be Jewish and we’re into a trend.

So now it’s Trevor Noah and who is this, you ask? I asked the same question and the answer is that if you thought Jon Stewart was obnoxious when it came to Israel, wait till you meet this creep. Trevor (no Noah this guy) is a 31-year-old South African who is slated to take Stewart’s place on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show.

Anti-Semitism has skyrocketed all over the world. Bad timing to be using Jews and Israel for a punchline.
Turns out that Trevor has a slight case of sexism and anti-Semitism. People searched his tweets and found him to be terribly unfunny and hateful.

This is the man Comedy Central hired to inflict further damage upon our unsuspecting youth. Another generation ready to be indoctrinated.

Yes I called him a creep and that is not my usual style. But David Remnick says it’s okay, okay to be crude, as long as it’s funny, or even if it’s not funny. Remnick is editor at The New Yorker, the magazine that is America’s paradigm for literature, journalism and humor and has been so since 1925.

People like J. D. Salinger used to write for The New Yorker, but now, under Remnick, the magazine has turned so humorlessly political, which means Liberal, which means Radical Left, which means anti-Israel, leading to trash talk from the mouth of slimy babes like Lena Dunham.

Who is Lena Dunham? I did not know she was famous. Nowadays you wake up in the morning and somebody you never heard of is suddenly famous, and so it is with Lena Dunham. She created and stars in an HBO program called “Girls.” In this she runs around naked half the time. She dares you to call her trashy.

Well she is and David Remnick says it’s okay to insult, all in the name of good fun and humor. I am only using David Remnick as my standard. Ms. Dunham, in what passes for wit these days, wrote a piece for The New Yorker about “Dog or Jewish Boyfriend” and she chose dog in what she called a “Quiz” as to which is best.

People complained. Yes, even Jews can only take so much. Never mind that some of the people in this entire business are themselves Jewish but grew up knowing nothing, absolutely nothing except that hating on your own people is the quickest and surest way to win the love of an audience, themselves ignoramuses.  Jon Stewart, for example.

So here is David Remnick defending Lena Dunham: “The Jewish tradition is rich with the mockery of, and playing with stereotypes”…etc etc…

So anything goes and it’s Kosher L’Pesach, according to the wit and wisdom of The New Yorker.

But wait! So, as one reader asked – suppose the “Quiz” were titled differently? Try, “Dog or Black Boyfriend?”

Would that be kosher for The New Yorker or for anybody? I do not think so. Ask Don Imus. All that and our entire culture covered here.

Timing is everything. We know this about life and we know this about humor.

Anti-Semitism has skyrocketed all over the world. Bad timing to be using Jews and Israel for a punchline.

Yesterday another General from Iran insisted that Israel must be destroyed…and he wasn’t funny.

Here’s funny for that guy: “May you win a million dollars and spend it all on doctors.”

Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. The new thriller from the New York-based novelist, The Bathsheba Deadline, a heroic editor’s singlehanded war on terror and against media bias. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Website: www.jackengelhard.com