Bravo Modi! In your sensitive insightful way you managed to show an Israeli Jew from Tel Aviv university what Jewish means and be proud of it… כל הכבוד!🇮🇱🩷👏
irony, self-mocking, word-based language-rich, rhythm and cadence, punctures pomposity, stereotypical characters mocked with love, like mothers, business ken.
My theory of humour... There is NO ear wax humour. Virtually every other substance emanating from the human body - liquid, solid, viscous - can be funny. But not ear wax. Why? Because every single one of those substances, be it saliva, mucous, tears, urine, dandruff, breast milk, semen, etc., is *supposed* to be something one can control. So when a person is unable to control it, it's funny to us. Guy has to meet his girlfriend's parents for the first time, and he comes in with HUGE sweat stains leaching through his shirt. Funny, no? Person is so drunk, they wet themselves. Funny. Co-worker momentarily chokes on their coffee and sneezes all over their computer keyboard, coating it with snot and saliva. Funny. But ear wax is simply....there. We can't control it, and often don't even know it's there. So because it can't be controlled, we can't *lose* control. Ergo, incapable of being funny. Some humour consists of crossing social acceptability lines. But it's funnier when the person conveying it initially seems to adhere to social convention before crossing the line. It's funny because they appear to have lost control of their decorum. One of my old high school teachers told an apocryphal story about famous Jewish painter Marc Chagall. Apparently, when he lived in New York, Chagall liked to go to Central Park and sketch people e saw there. One day he sees an alte rebbe and a young yeshiva bocher seated on a bench having a discussion. He starts to sketch them. He sees the discussion between them get a little more animated, and finally somewhat angry. Chagall is intrigued and gets closer and closer, eager to hear what the discourse between the older teacher and young student is about. Finally he gets close enough to hear the old rebbe exclaim in astonishment "Mir gezukt fuck you?!!". Now THAT's funny, because the old man crossed a line we were not expecting him to cross. The British tradition in humour often revolves around trying to control one's emotions and maintain decorum and dignity while under duress. Consider Sasha Baron-Cohen's Ali G character. Ali G himself is not funny, just stupid. But what IS funny is how his guests - often famous people - struggle to put up a civil front in the face of his blatant stupidity. Sasha's genius lies in setting a context in which Ali G does not seem like a put-on but is genuinely ignorant, and the cameras are rolling. John Cleese's character of Basil Fawlty on Fawlty Towers is another case of someone desperately trying to keep their outrage under control in trying circumstances. Both examples are about maintaining control, and either losing it or coming perilously close to doing so. Losing control IS funny.
It’s interesting how a comedians see the world. Thanks for the laughs.
as a none Jew sitting alone I laugh so much with Modi
Bravo Modi!
In your sensitive insightful way you
managed to show an Israeli Jew from Tel Aviv university what Jewish means and be proud of it…
כל הכבוד!🇮🇱🩷👏
😂 I I LOVE MODI..his shows are hilarious !
We love you Modi!!!
Modi is funny because he doesn’t laugh at his own jokes, and he is good with different accents.
Yoely should be running for president!!!
You mean “familiarity” by the audience. They can relate
irony, self-mocking, word-based language-rich, rhythm and cadence, punctures pomposity, stereotypical characters mocked with love, like mothers, business ken.
Sheesh ...! Surprised at how many times he failed to understand some slightly-not-simple questions.🤔
My theory of humour...
There is NO ear wax humour. Virtually every other substance emanating from the human body - liquid, solid, viscous - can be funny. But not ear wax. Why? Because every single one of those substances, be it saliva, mucous, tears, urine, dandruff, breast milk, semen, etc., is *supposed* to be something one can control. So when a person is unable to control it, it's funny to us. Guy has to meet his girlfriend's parents for the first time, and he comes in with HUGE sweat stains leaching through his shirt. Funny, no? Person is so drunk, they wet themselves. Funny. Co-worker momentarily chokes on their coffee and sneezes all over their computer keyboard, coating it with snot and saliva. Funny.
But ear wax is simply....there. We can't control it, and often don't even know it's there. So because it can't be controlled, we can't *lose* control. Ergo, incapable of being funny.
Some humour consists of crossing social acceptability lines. But it's funnier when the person conveying it initially seems to adhere to social convention before crossing the line. It's funny because they appear to have lost control of their decorum. One of my old high school teachers told an apocryphal story about famous Jewish painter Marc Chagall. Apparently, when he lived in New York, Chagall liked to go to Central Park and sketch people e saw there. One day he sees an alte rebbe and a young yeshiva bocher seated on a bench having a discussion. He starts to sketch them. He sees the discussion between them get a little more animated, and finally somewhat angry. Chagall is intrigued and gets closer and closer, eager to hear what the discourse between the older teacher and young student is about. Finally he gets close enough to hear the old rebbe exclaim in astonishment "Mir gezukt fuck you?!!". Now THAT's funny, because the old man crossed a line we were not expecting him to cross.
The British tradition in humour often revolves around trying to control one's emotions and maintain decorum and dignity while under duress. Consider Sasha Baron-Cohen's Ali G character. Ali G himself is not funny, just stupid. But what IS funny is how his guests - often famous people - struggle to put up a civil front in the face of his blatant stupidity. Sasha's genius lies in setting a context in which Ali G does not seem like a put-on but is genuinely ignorant, and the cameras are rolling. John Cleese's character of Basil Fawlty on Fawlty Towers is another case of someone desperately trying to keep their outrage under control in trying circumstances. Both examples are about maintaining control, and either losing it or coming perilously close to doing so. Losing control IS funny.