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

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