You can give a shout-out to the really old jews you love here. It's the end of an era, you hockey puck!

90 YEARS YOUNG on may 8th. Love you, Don!

https://robertbrancatelli.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/don-rickles.jpg

Al Jaffee, you are an American hero and one of my spiritual mentors. Bless you. 95 YEARS YOUNG.

http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/5056942233_38d86ed37c_b.jpg

Sam Gross, you are a spring chicken at 82 and you warped my brain in such a wonderful way when I was a child and when I met you when I was a kid you were so nice and you got cigar ashes in the book I had you sign. I will treasure those ashes always.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Sam_Gross_on_September_17,_2014.jpg/220px-Sam_Gross_on_September_17,_2014.jpg

Mel, well, what can I say? You are a living link to everything I love about this stupid country and I have known you as long as I have known myself. There are few who can compare.

http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/images2/M/melbrooks.jpg

Thank you Al Jaffee, for giving me the courage to shout out my own snappy answers to stupid questions

"Is it raining out?"
"No, I always shower with my clothes on before entering a house."

Professor Irwin Corey, oldest living commie comedian

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/13/article-0-0E5BAE0400000578-693_306x387.jpg

Bernie doesn't qualify yet, I suppose?

can't believe Morbz' first post on this thread wasn't about Jerry Lewis

wow, irwin corey, yeah. that is the kind of Brooklyn hipster i can get down with.

i don't love Jerry. He's rather a nasty human being.

Weird that Charles Grodin is older than Bernie (81)

http://www.theaterpizzazz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/charles-grodin-vineyard-theatres-30th-anniversary-gala_3562708.jpg

Stan Lee, 93

http://www.followingthenerd.com/site/wp-content/uploads/stan-lee-1.jpg

Noam is 87

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/6/6e/20140129170212!Chomsky.jpg

wow, charles grodin is as old as my dad. i did not know that. long may he wave! and my dad too...

props to my dad for providing portnoy's complaint on the bookshelf in the 70's. you go, philip!

https://livrada.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/philip-roth_wide-362eb58ad046d98914101cd43b45834e76922bad.jpg

and also fear of flying. thanks, dad! i didn't know what was going on. i'd read anything. (erica has to wait to get on this thread though. she's a young and frisky 74!)

I thought Cloris Leachman (90) was Jewish, but apparently not

The great Jules Feiffer, 87, by Drew Friedman, only 57 ("Jules scratches his jewels" always cracks me up):

https://spookycomics.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/drew-jules1.jpg

We've got some over here too. Dennis Norden is 94!

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTcE99Z_4eylTWE0vZnzu-ZlajFFRM-t6XdXhTKKAPD22QAAn0I4A:www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00380/121286722_Birthday_380866c.jpg

Elaine May! 1000x funnier than that dead-at-last yenta Rivers

http://www.awardsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/elaine-may.jpg

she's 84 btw

i love Jules. this book was a big hit with me as a kid:

http://img0003.psstatic.com/107273157_amazoncom-passionella-and-other-stories-jules-feiffer-.jpg

and of course i read jules every week in the Voice when i was a kid. what kid didn't back then?

seeing the hairlines in these dudes' younger photos is making me feel very in touch with my Jewishness.

Gary Marshall, age 81. (His WTF interview last week was good.)

http://www.signature-reads.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/garry-marshall-headshot.jpg

Garry Marshall's not Jewish though..?

Italian dad, Welsh-Irish mom

"You said, 'schmucks see Wayne Newton.' I like him. That makes me a schmuck?"

Bill Shatner, 85

http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/images/slides/331/896/6/S3318966/slug/l/people-william-shatner-1.jpg

Haha, sorry, Garry Marshall's Bronx style fooled me.

Shecky Greene, 90

https://www.growingbolder.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/860136a.jpg

Barry Malzberg, 77
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Famazingstoriesmag.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F12%2Fmalzberg-barry.jpg&f=1

Shelley Berman, 91

http://media.jrn.com/images/420110623121108001_4522371_ver1.0_640_480.jpg

amazing when you think of how many smoke-filled rooms shecky and shelley have been in over the decades.

Morbz, you ever listen to gilbert gottfried's podcasts? sometimes he'll do a good interview with someone like shecky. people who don't get interviewed a lot.

i've heard maybe 1.5 of them

Kirk Douglas, 99.4

http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/WNT/abc_wn_pow_120629_wg.jpg

he'll do an entire show devoted to an interview with ken berry. which doesn't happen every day.

Bill Kristol, 63

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Politics/ABC_bill_kristol_this_week_jt_130818_16x9_608.jpg

when kirk douglas's father quit smoking he would keep a pack of cigarettes in his breast pocket and every once in a while he'd take the pack out and say to it: WHO IS STRONGER? ME OR YOU? ME!

he was a hard man.

we know you love him. xp

that was the ragman?

indeed.

man reading this thread you realise old jews are better than new jews

Harold Lipshitz, 85

http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/hal-linden.jpg

huh I had no idea Kirk Douglas was Jewish

Alfred can you honestly say you "love" Bill Kristol wtf

KD born Izzy Demsky

Israel Kristal, 112

http://i.imgur.com/O07yDq7.jpg

(plaque reads "Oldest Really Old Jew")

i never really thought of mel and gene as being from the same generation. probably because gene got a later start.

This anecdote from Denis Norden (age, 94) made me chuckle:

When Norden was asked by the Evening Standard's literary editor to review Gershon Legman's massive volume, The Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humour, the excited and proud reviewer snapped up a dozen copies of the paper and took a few of them to his parents. While his mother just checked to see that her son's name had been prominently printed before returning to her cooking, "my father... shook his head and, indicating the book's title, sighed: ‘So this is what you're now the big expert on?'"

http://i.imgur.com/jkYGxT4.jpg

Gershon Kingsley, 93

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1eQEv2UJ8Y

Sylvere Lotringer, 78
http://cdn0.walkerartcenter.org/static/cache/3b/3be1be2e3fddb9fcc1dc9e06185be93d.jpg

Hèléne Cixous, 79
http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02688/07janpyann04-he_TH_2688233f.jpg

kinda forgot if he was or wasn't...sorry! lee konitz, 89 years young!

https://jazzinphoto.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/lee-konitz-terry-cryer.jpg

love to my stepdad, Martin Abraham Sussman, at 82 he's old enough to hang on this thread for sure

and, sadly, he's hanging by a thread, too

hang in there dude

aw, so sorry. i feel like i get closer to that all the time with my parents. it's no fun. best to you and your family. 82 is nothing to sneeze at! that's a lot of living.

Tom Lehrer, 88.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640x360/p01jwkcq.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LslsgH3-UFU

i just heard the news! love ya, shelley! i listened to your record albums a bunch when i was a little kid. so funny!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QWRN8O7P2qk/VhyGUjnKB8I/AAAAAAAAPpw/5e9VRmJzQC0/s1600/Shelley%2BBerman%2Bon%2Bthe%2BTelephone.jpg