''Old Jews Telling Jokes'' is a

web series A web series (also known as webseries, short-form series, and web show) is a series of short scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet (i.e. World Wide Web), which first emerged in the late 1 ...

launched in 2009 created and directed by Sam Hoffman and produced by Eric Spiegelman and Tim Williams for Jetpack Media, Inc. It has since gone on to garner millions of unique views over several original series shot in places like New York, Los Angeles and Boca Raton. In 2010 it was published as a paperback book by Villard. Written by Sam Hoffman with Eric Spiegelman, it is subtitled ''5000 Years of Funny Bits and Not-So-Kosher Laughs." ''Its chapters consist of jokes and humorous anecdotes contributed by several Jewish personalities, including

Ed Koch Edward Irving Koch ( ; December 12, 1924February 1, 2013) was an American politician. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and was mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989. Koch was a lifelong Democrat who ...

Norman Stiles Norman Stiles (born December 4, 1942) is a television writer best known for his work on the show ''Sesame Street''. Stiles worked on the show from 1971 until 1997. Stiles is perhaps best known for writing the episode segments about the death of ...

, John Pleshette and

Annie Korzen Annie Korzen is an American actress, comedian, writer and social media personality. Korzen is well known from the television show ''Seinfeld'', appearing in the recurring role of Doris Klompus, an obnoxious neighbor living in Jerry's parents' F ...

. In the introduction Hoffman says his book "categorized the jokes into chapters, roughly tracing the trajectory of the Jewish experience in America". In addition to the book, it has also been distributed o
DVD
as two audio books

an

, a successful

BBC Four BBC Four is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was launched on 2 March 2002

television series and was named one of the Top 5 podcasts on iTunes in 2010. In 2011 it won a
Audie Award
for Humor. In May 2012, it opened as a
off-broadway play
at the Westside Theater. The BBC adapted the format for ''

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''.

References

External links

Old Jews Telling Jokes website
*{{IMDb title, 1417759 2010 non-fiction books Jewish comedy and humor Joke books Yiddish culture in the United States 2009 web series debuts