Yid Vid: Obama’s Not the Only One Conjuring Washington and Lincoln
By Daniel Treiman
Barack Obama, as we all know by now, is quite fond of summoning up the spirit of Abraham Lincoln. That’s why it was such a surprise when the presidential predecessor Obama decided to invoke in his inaugural address was not “Honest Abe” but the fellow who (as lore has it) could not tell a lie about chopping down a cherry tree. But our new president isn’t the only one conjuring the spirits of the American Cincinnatus and the Great Emancipator for elevated purposes:
Limmud LA from Gordon Eick on Vimeo.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should note that the script for the video was written by Nick Weiss, the brother of Forward staff writer Anthony Weiss. Nick Weiss also provides the voice of Lincoln.
December 29, 2008, 5:01pm
Yid Vid: Hanukkah in Santa Monica — a Great Miracle Didn’t Happen There
By Daniel Treiman
As Hanukkah nears its end, the good folks at Temple Emanuel in Cherry Hill, N.J., can breathe easily. Their world-record of 541 dreidels spinning simultaneously has withstood a challenge mounted by Sha’arei Am in Santa Monica, Calif.:
Take that, Tom Lehrer!
UPDATE: There appears to be some uncertainty as to exactly who holds the dreidel world record: Last year students at the University of Maryland spun a prodigious number of dreidels, Sports Illustrated reports, and back in 2003, we reported that “the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center at Indiana University broke the world record — previously held by Maryland — for the number of dreidels spun at once, when more than 500 students and members of the local community came out to spin 713 dreidels for 10 seconds.” It’s all very confusing, but don’t despair. We have crack a crack reporter on the case and will let you know more as soon as we know more.
UPDATE II: Here’s what we found out.
December 29, 2008, 12:05am
Eighth Night Yid Vid: What Is This Hanukkah Thing All About?
By Daniel Treiman
So we’ve had seven nights of Hanukkah videos. We’ve watched singing cowboys, rapping Jewesses, will.i.am impersonators, melodious philosemitism, a comic spilling the beans on George Clooney, Adam Sandler dropping names, and Lipa Schmeltzer doing his thing. But, a viewer might fairly complain, we still don’t have any better sense of what this holiday is all about than when we began. Fair enough.
Fortunately, Rabbi Laura Baum can explain what Hanukkah is all about — and in only three minutes:
The rest of her video series is pretty good, too. Rabbi Baum also examines the Hanukkah blessings, takes a deeper look at the “myth” of the miraculously long-lasting oil, makes some edible Hanukkah art, explains that “real women eat cheese, or at least they feed it to their men before they kill them,” teaches us that there are many ways of lighting Hanukkah candles, and offers a little bit of historical perspective on the Festival of Lights.
Of course, this may raise hackles from those who look to Eight Nights of Yid Vid not for educational content but rather for a little lighthearted diversion. For those who feel this way, I found this video of a woman performing a very nice dreidel dance.
December 27, 2008, 7:45pm
Seventh Night Yid Vid: A Little Bit of Lipa
By Daniel Treiman
Ain’t no Hanukkah song like a Hanukkah song sung by Hasidic pop giant Lipa Schmeltzer (alas, it’s only a promo, so it gets cut off a little abruptly):
Sure, Lipa may not top the pop charts like Hasidic reggae phenom Matisyahu. But Matisyahu isn’t nearly as much zany fun. (Exhibit A: Check Lipa out promoting the “Big Event” charity concert — which sparked a big brouhaha earlier this year after it was canceled following complaints by rabbis who warned it was liable to cause “ribaldry and lightheadedness.”)
Hat tip: Jewish Music Review
December 26, 2008, 2:59pm
Sixth Night Yid Vid: When the Zohan Named Names
By Daniel Treiman
Before “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan,” there was the “Chanukah Song”:
And here’s his “Chanukah Song,” version 3.0:
It should be noted that, while some maintain that the “Chanukah song” is the “single most important Jewish song of the past quarter-century,” Adam Sandler doesn’t necessarily bring academic precision to his song-writing.
December 25, 2008, 7:03pm
Fifth Night Yid Vid: George Clooney vs. Richard Kind on the December Dilemma
By Daniel Treiman
December 24, 2008, 4:49pm
Fourth Night Yid Vid: Very Jewish Christmas Wishes
By Daniel Treiman
Maybe she can get in touch with this guy, if and when he gets his Christmas wish:
So all you want for Christmas is to be Jewish? No problem, my singing friend. While you wait, I’ll leave you with this to tide you over. You should know, however, that there is a counterargument. (The counter-argument is quite funny but, viewer beware, features some language that should no be repeated on a family blog).
Merry Chrismukkah!
December 23, 2008, 4:13pm
Third Night Yid Vid: Chabad Channels Will.i.am
By Daniel Treiman
Yes, Chabad of Malibu can light your menorah. Like will.i.am’s pro-Obama video upon which it is based, the Chabad video features a woman saying “Yes we can” in Hebrew. Unlike the will.i.am video, Chabad doesn’t have Jewish/Danish-American actress Scarlett Johansson — or any other women for that matter — singing along. For which, of course, there’s a ready explanation. That, however, begs the question: Did the folks who made or performed in the Chabad video allow themselves to listen to the original?
Hat tip: Jeffrey Goldberg
December 22, 2008, 6:44pm
Second Night Yid Vid: Hip-Hop Hooray for Hanukkah
By Daniel Treiman
Be forewarned, it’s a little crude, a little rude, but then again, what would you expect from a hip-hop defense of Hanukkah:
The question is: How do M.C. Jew C and Lil’ Mitzvah stack up against Miriam and Shoshana, the geniuses featured in last year’s second-night Yid Vid?
December 21, 2008, 5:49pm
First Night Yid Vid: Mamas, Don’t Let Your Cowboys Grow Up To Play With Dreidels
By Daniel Treiman
Last December, the Bintel Blog marked the Festival of Lights and Latkes with eight crazy nights of offbeat Hanukkah-themed videos for your viewing enjoyment. We watched intergalactic, interfaith warfare; dancing Israeli donuts; Aussie punk rockers; manic terrorists; soulful (and not as soulful) holiday songs; NBA stars playing defense, (faux) O.G. hip-hop straight outta Pico-Robertson; and gambling monkeys.
All in all, it’s a tough act to follow if, ahem, I do say so myself. Fortunately, in what one might call a Hanukkah miracle, I happened upon these dreidel-loving kosher cowboys:
Take that, Erran Baron Cohen!
Hat tip: Gruntig.
December 12, 2008, 2:02pm
Yid Vid: Sephardic and Ashkenazic, Haredi and Hip-Hop-ish, Who Says We All Can’t Get Along?
By Daniel Treiman
Orthodox pop phenom Gad Elbaz and Israeli reggaeton artist Alon de Loco built a bridge in song:
Now, into my e-mail inbox comes further proof of the power of music to bring people together. Indeed, it is powerful enough even to overcome the narcissism of minor differences:
October 27, 2008, 1:57pm
Yid Vid: Animating the Portion
By Daniel Treiman
Sarah Lefton, a San Francisco-based Jewish innovator, who was responsible for giving the world the Jewish Fashion Conspiracy, which sold schmattes bearing clever semitic slogans, has a cool new conspiracy brewing.
This time, her co-conspirators include those learned in the ways of Torah and those learned in the ways of animation. The result is the G-dcast — a weekly animated presentation of the Torah portion.
It’s off to a strong beginning, with a Bereshit cartoon narrated by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner:
October 27, 2008, 12:59pm
Yid Vid: Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones Address the Economic Crisis
By Daniel Treiman
While Barney Frank and Ben Bernanke have been working on addressing the economic crisis, two younger, slightly more glamorous Jews are thinking of some outside-the-box solutions.
What do Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones think we should be doing? Watch and learn:
Hat tip: Gothamist
October 18, 2008, 7:49pm
Yid Vid: If Amy Winehouse Were a Yiddish-Speaking, Bearded, Orthodox Guy Who Had a Little Too Much Manischewitz…
By Daniel Treiman
…she still wouldn’t want to go to rehab:
There’s something quite appropriate about doing an Amy Winehouse cover while a bit shikered. Here’s Winehouse herself performing a Michael Jackson cover while in a bit of state.
Hat tip: Commentary’s John Podhoretz
UPDATE: The mysterious, bearded, Yiddish-speaking Orthodox guy has been identified! Bintel Blog reader Ralph Kostant helpfully notes in a comment that the fellow in the video “is Marvin Silbermintz of North Hollywood, California, formerly a writer for Jay Leno at the Tonight Show, and a very funny guy.” Indeed, it turns out that this isn’t Silbermintz’s first appearance on the Bintel Blog. We previously showcased his genius back in February.
August 22, 2008, 11:40am
Yid Vid: Cohen @ Mushon
By Daniel Treiman
Why? Why not? They’re dope, fly, fresh and phat… as the kids used to say.
Oh, also, a much more famous Jewish musician recently produced a much stranger video.
August 13, 2008, 11:18am
Yid Vid: Daily Show Correspondent Has Right Idea, Wrong Wall
By Daniel Treiman
The Daily Show’s Olympics correspondent Rob Riggle visits China’s Great Wall and takes part “in a custom 6,000 years old.” The action begins around 3:30 into the video:
Hat tip to Bintel Blog reader Jack Miller
July 30, 2008, 12:45am
Yid Vid: Natalie Portman Gets Subcontinental
By Daniel Treiman
Natalie Portman takes a page from Bollywood in a video from her bohemian beau Devendra Banhart (who is, no doubt, by now the object of loathing from jealous young Jewish men the world over):
I’m waiting for the inevitable backlash from the Hindu circles that don’t take kindly to such acts of artistic appropriation. In the meantime, the Desi Hits blogger seems to be taking it in stride.
Hat tip: Jewlicious
July 24, 2008, 1:22pm
Yid Vid: David Irving Does New York
By Daniel Treiman
Max Blumenthal, scourge of conservative conferences, turns his camera toward Holocaust denier David Irving, who recently swung by New York City for a stop on his American speaking tour. Blumenthal doesn’t have to work too hard to make his subject look ridiculous:
Irving spoke in a room at an Upper East Side church basement, but the church’s pastor told Blumenthal that event organizers were less than above-board. “Someone made a reservation to have a discussion of a book. The name was not David Irving. We knew nothing about it. We thought it would be just something nice for the community,” he explained. “And it turns out that it was David Irving. We were completely deceived. And really we’re outraged, because we do not cater to that kind of bigotry, and I’m really sorry that this happened.”
My favorite Irving quote from the video: “Adolf Hitler was being kept out of the loop and was probably not at all antisemitic by the time the war began.” Or maybe this one, on the origins of World War II: “Hitler wanted a little war, but it got out of hand.”
Blumenthal also scored some hits on professional contrarian (and Blumenthal family foe) Christopher Hitchens over his seemingly odd relationship with Irving (also discussed in passing here).
For another report on the Irving event, see this article from The New York Sun (for which Blumenthal is the main source).
July 10, 2008, 2:17pm
Yid Vid: Yael Naim Does Britney Spears
By Daniel Treiman
The new issue of Heeb Magazine has a nice interview with Mac-made musical sensation Yael Naim.
From it I learned that the Israeli-born singer, best-known for her brilliant “New Soul,” does a live cover of Britney Spears’s “Toxic.” “I wanted to take something far from what I enjoy and make it mine,” Naim tells Heeb. “Britney Spears was far enough.”
Here’s Naim’s version:
By way of comparison, here’s the original by Britney.
July 10, 2008, 1:50pm
Yid Vid: Adam Sandler Doesn’t Even Like Hummus!
By Daniel Treiman
There was nary a review of Adam Sandler’s “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” that didn’t mention the movie’s steady stream of hummus jokes. The irony is that, as the following shocking video reveals, Sandler doesn’t even like hummus. And when he appeared to be eating the mashed-chickpea spread in the film, he was actually eating yogurt!
How deep do the lies go? Next we’re liable learn that there’s no such thing as Fizzy Bubbeleh.
Perhaps Sandler isn’t the most important living Jewish commentator after all…
Hat tip: Jewcy’s Tamar Fox
UPDATE AND WARNING: Despite what the video window says, it is available to be viewed. Just hit play. Also, be warned, Sandler does something somewhat disgusting with a fish in the video.
June 29, 2008, 4:57pm
Yid Vid: Alec Baldwin’s Favorite Jewish Holiday Is…
By Daniel Treiman
The bad news is that you have to wait until the end of the video to find out. The good news is that, in the meantime, you get to learn about famed New York ess-ery Barney Greengrass — “the Sturgeon King” — which is celebrating its 100th birthday.
A few years back, my friend Victor Wishna looked into the question of whether sturgeon — that consummate Jewish delicacy — is, in fact, kosher.
June 13, 2008, 4:52pm
Yid Vid: Colbert on Israel’s New National Bird
By Daniel Treiman
For an even more learned take on the hoopoe, see Jonathan Rosen’s op-ed in The New York Times.
Hat tip: Jewlicious
May 6, 2008, 3:00pm
Yid Vid: Birthright Enlists Israel’s Reigning YouTube Queens
By Daniel Treiman
In the past decade, Birthright Israel has established itself as the Jewish community’s unquestioned leader in providing free Israel trips to young Jews. More recently, it has also become, quite possibly, the Jewish community’s No. 1 patron of the art of YouTube video-making.
For its latest effort, Birthright enlists Israel’s leading lip-syncers, Tasha and Dishka, two young ladies from Ramle who became YouTube sensations with their lively interpretation of The Pixies’ “Hey” — which has now been viewed more than 22 million times(!).
For Birthright, the dynamic duo of viral video lip-syncs in various holy land hot spots to the song “All Eyes on Me” by Israeli power-pop band The Carsitters — all in honor of Israel’s 60th birthday.
The verdict?: It’s not bad, but it’s no “Hey.”
Hat tip: Jewlicious.
April 18, 2008, 4:10pm
Yid Vid: Rosh Hashanah Girl Returns… for Passover
By Marissa Brostoff
Michelle Citrin and William Levin, the Jewish YouTube impresarios who last year brought us “I Gotta Love You Rosh Hashanah” (a Taglit-Birthright Israel –sponsored parody of a parody) are back with “20 Things To Do With Matzah” (sponsored by Streit’s matzo factory).
Says Levin of filming the new video, “Most people are cleaning their homes of chametz this time of year. We’re cleaning our apartments of matzo.”
April 18, 2008, 12:28pm
Yid Vid: Orangutans Enjoy Matzo (But Not Too Much, Lest…)
By Daniel Treiman
Elsewhere in the Forward-sphere, our bilingual bard, Stanley Siegelman, notes that Passover also has something to offer lovers, children, communists, drunks and Eliot Spitzer.
April 1, 2008, 7:56pm
Yid Vid: Israel Through British Eyes
By Daniel Treiman
Staffers from the British pro-Israel advocacy group Bicom took to the streets to find out what ordinary Britons know about Israel. They compiled some of the sillier responses into a YouTube highlight reel:
I personally like how the woman in the kaffiyeh thought the capital of Israel was “Iran.”
Of course, I’m sure one could ask Israelis about Britain and then cherry-pick the dumbest responses and make a video that’s every bit as funny. One also wonders whether the people who are being held up for ridicule for their lack of knowledge about a small Middle Eastern country are going to feel any more favorable toward Israel for it. Then again, I guess people still like Jay Leno.
London’s Jewish Chronicle has the story of the making of the video.
March 27, 2008, 8:00pm
Yid Vid: Yael Naim May Be Big on TV, But Hadar Manor Is Queen of the Tube
By Daniel Treiman
What is it with young Israeli singer-songwriters making great music in Europe?
First, we saw the ascent of 30-year-old Yael Naim, the Paris-based songstress who became suddenly famous after her beautiful single “New Soul” was used in an Apple commercial. Now, across the Channel, another young Israeli is getting a bit of attention of her own. Hadar Manor, a 26-year-old not too many years out of the IDF, was recently named “Busker Queen of London’s Underground.”
While Manor’s YouTube video views aren’t anywhere near Naim numbers yet (i.e. millions), I wouldn’t be surprised if we hear more from this young singer who’s already garnering raves in Britain.
Watch Manor’s (prophetic?) “Queen of the Underground” in which she showcases her song-writing skills (and apparent affinity for kaffiyehs):
View Naim’s “New Soul” here:
Hat tip: The L.A. Jewish Journal’s weekly V.J.
March 21, 2008, 12:00pm
Yid Vid: Two Ways of Celebrating Purim
By Daniel Treiman
The Nahariya way:
The Bobover way:
March 14, 2008, 3:27pm
Yid Vid: 'Jewno'
By Gabriel Sanders
March 12, 2008, 1:13pm
Yid Vid: Israeli TV Makes Intermarriage Seem Funny, Grave
By Daniel Treiman
This is a great report from Israel’s Channel 10 on intermarriage in America. The report offers an incisive outsider’s perspective on this sensitive issue that manages to be simultaneously funny and serious and offers a thoroughly human look at an American Jewish dilemma without proffering easy answers.
It was posted on YouTube late last year. The comments on the video’s YouTube page are interesting.
Hat tip: JTA’s Ami Eden.
March 11, 2008, 6:11pm
Yid Vid: Looking for Jewish Comedians in All the Wrong Places
By Daniel Treiman
To borrow the words of a famous Jewish comedian: pretty, pretty, pretty good!
Hat tip: L.A. Jewish Journal. (I don’t know how we got scooped on this one given the Forward’s longstanding association with a certain Jewish comedian who’s featured prominently in this video.)
March 10, 2008, 6:50pm
Yid Vid: Fiddler on the Goof?
By Marissa Brostoff
“Fiddler on the Roof” and “Avenue Q” are two major Broadway musicals that celebrate community and kvetch about poverty through the cunning use of puppets. Oh wait, that last part is only “Avenue Q.” But not anymore…
February 21, 2008, 4:58pm
Yid Vid: Rahm for Veep
By Daniel Treiman
Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Chicago is used to being a Democratic power-broker. But this campaign season, the man who led the Democratic effort to take back the House of Representatives has found himself sitting uncomfortably on the sidelines. On the one hand, he was a key aide to President Clinton, a post that launched his political career — and thus owes the Clintons big time. On the other hand, it would be profoundly awkward for him to go against local hero (and friend) Barack Obama.
When asked about the race, Emanuel has taken to telling reporters that he’s hiding under his desk.
Well, not anymore. The famously potty-mouthed partisan pugilist — who is often called a “pitbull” — has launched a bid for the vice-presidential nomination. But only in jest.
The following video offers some, er, testimonials from Emanuel’s political and personal associates. My favorite: “Rahm Emanuel for vice president?” Illinois Senator Dick Durbin asks. “What’s his slogan? ‘A lot of audacity, but not much hope’?” (The guy in the shiny purple yarmulke is pretty funny, too.)
Hat tip: Politico
February 19, 2008, 5:19pm
Yid Vid: Accessories for Modern Jewish Living
By Daniel Treiman
A highlight from the Chabad telethon:
January 31, 2008, 3:47pm
Yid Vid: Writers' Strike Leaves Woody Allen Speechless
By Aram David
January 24, 2008, 1:18pm
Yid Vid: ‘Beatles’ vs. Julie Andrews
By Daniel Treiman
The Beatles video is, of course, dubbed. The Fab Four didn’t really sing in the mameloshn, though they were, apparently, known to warble a bit in German.
January 15, 2008, 4:53pm
Yid Vid: Hava Nagila Without Borders
By Daniel Treiman
The fun folks over at Jewlicious have assembled a quartet of YouTube videos that testify to the universal appeal of that beloved Jewish standard, Hava Nagila. There are renditions from Thailand, India, Britain and Texas. The Thai one is my personal favorite, but it’s been making its way around cyberspace for quite sometime, so here’s a runner-up, from a “Salute to Israel” dinner at (controversial) Pastor John Hagee’s Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas:
Who knew Christian Zionists had so much down-home ruach?
January 10, 2008, 2:14pm
Yid Vid: Boogying With Bush in Jerusalem
By Daniel Treiman
The kids seem pretty focused on their dance routine — if only these two heads of state would stop getting in the way.
It always seems like an odd juxtaposition when Shimon Peres meets pop music.
Hat tip: Ami Eden (who links to some funny commentary from Keith Olbermann).
December 27, 2007, 5:13pm
Yid Vid: Chabon Speaks
By Daniel Treiman
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon speaks about the controversy surrounding his book “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” how he feels about Israel, getting compared to Philip Roth and being a geek. Crackerjack Judeo-Christian reporter Brad Greenberg asks all the right questions (although I do sort of wish he had asked Chabon whether he loves his wife more than he loves his kids).
December 24, 2007, 5:33pm
Yid Vid: I Like Chinese Food on Christmas — the Video, Not So Much
By Daniel Treiman
Brandon Walker’s “Chinese Food for Christmas” is the big Christmas-season Jewish Internet video hit. It’s been viewed more than a million times on YouTube. There’s even a stripped-down, acoustic version (which has been watched more than 500,000 times!).
The question is: Why?
Personally, I prefer this one:
My favorite line: “You see all Jewish people are eating in Chinese restaurants, but you don’t see a Chinese person eat gefilte fish in a Jewish restaurant.”
Truer words have never been said. There is no reciprocity in Sino-Judaic relations. My point exactly!
P.S. I should add that despite the second video’s title, it was actually filmed in several cities at several different Chinese restaurants (lest anyone come away with the mistaken impression that a kosher Chinese restaurant was serving pork).
December 18, 2007, 6:53pm
Yid Vid: Adam Sandler as Mossad-Agent-Turned-Hairdresser
By Daniel Treiman
So Sandler has made a film in which he plays a crack Mossad agent who decides to move to New York to be a hairdresser.
Weird? Yes. Profound? Maybe.
Sandler, in my humble opinion, perfectly captured the zeitgeist of American Jewry in “50 First Dates,” the film in which he wooed an amnesiac Drew Barrymore. (I’d explain how, but I don’t want to spoil the surprise ending.) From watching the trailer for his upcoming film, “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan,” it seems like Sandler’s summed up the mood of a certain segment of the Israeli populace (i.e. life is hard in Israel, much better to be a hairdresser in New York).
JTA’s Ami Eden (from whom I filched this video) seems to see a certain parallel with Steven Spielberg’s “Munich.” In my view, the parallels go deeper than the cloak-and-dagger stuff. In both films, the protagonists flee to New York, and, for both, their previous line of work follows them across the Atlantic. But I doubt Sandler’s latest will spark much in the way of Jewish communal controversy. (Although we’ll have to wait and see what Leon Wieseltier thinks.)
In any case, there are no Jewish profundities lurking beneath the surface of my favorite Adam Sandler film, “Happy Gilmore.”
December 11, 2007, 5:40pm
Eighth Night Yid Vid: The War on Christmas
By Daniel Treiman
The video’s maker explains:
So, every year my school holds a door-decorating contest at Christmas time. This year, the plan was to have me make this Christmas vs. Hanukkah space battle animation, and play it on a laptop attached to the door, while also projecting a neat light effect onto some thin paper over the doors window. We won! I thought some people might enjoy seeing it.
The Christmas battleship is modelled [sic] after a Christmas tree, while the Hanukkah ship is a star of David. The fighters are sleds and dreidel.
At the end, it turns a little political.
December 10, 2007, 5:11pm
Seventh Night Yid Vid: We Are All Jelly Donuts
By Daniel Treiman
Israeli machismo died in Ramat Poleg.
December 9, 2007, 11:13pm
Sixth Night Yid Vid: Yidcore Channels Adam Sandler
By Daniel Treiman
For more on Australia’s greatest Jewish punk band, read this and this.
December 9, 2007, 3:12am
Fifth Night Yid Vid: Al Qaeda Hanukkah
By Daniel Treiman
Maybe this guy was right after all.
December 7, 2007, 3:20pm
Fourth Night Yid Vid: Hanukkah Caroling
By Daniel Treiman
This one has a touch more soul:
December 6, 2007, 5:02pm
Third Night Yid Vid: Hanukkah as an Excuse to Pester NBA Stars
By Daniel Treiman
It’s good to know that Hanukkah has the Ron Artest seal of approval. Here’s another video from the same guy from last year:
Below is a video of a much funnier Jewish nudnik pestering NBA stars. Alas, it doesn’t have anything to do with Hanukkah:
December 5, 2007, 5:24pm
Second Night Yid Vid: Hanukkah, O.G.-Style
By Daniel Treiman
O.G. is for Orthodox girls (or faux O.G., as the case may be).
Hat tip: Jewlicious.
December 5, 2007, 2:08pm
Yid Vid: They Eschew TV, But If They Were To Buy One, It Would Be HD
By Gabriel Sanders
December 4, 2007, 5:14pm
First Night Yid Vid: In Israel, Even the Monkeys Celebrate Hanukkah
By Daniel Treiman
November 26, 2007, 6:59pm
Yid Vid: Sarah Silverman for the Writers
By Daniel Treiman
Beth of Jewlicious thinks this video just goes to show that Sarah Silverman’s “a moron.” I disagree. I think she actually makes the writers’ case pretty well, albeit in her typical comic faux-moron fashion.
Read the comments on the Jewlicious post for a lively debate about whether Silverman is funny or just vulgar. (I say: yes and yes.)
November 20, 2007, 6:57pm
Yid Vid: A Marxist Take on the Writers' Strike
By Daniel Treiman
Groucho not Karl.
Hat tip: Jewschool.
November 5, 2007, 3:36pm
Yid Vid: Jerry Seinfeld vs. Larry King
By Daniel Treiman
Which is more obnoxious: Larry King’s refusal to prepare for interviews or Jerry Seinfeld’s thin skin?
October 30, 2007, 9:11pm
Yid Vid: She’s Got a Crush on Ann Coulter
By Daniel Treiman
Leah Kauffman, the singer-songwriter behind the “Obama Girl” video, has a new crush: Ann Coulter. Two differences between her “Obama Girl” video and her latest work: This time around, rather than using a lip-syncing model, Kaufman’s in front of the camera and she’s clearly only tongue-in-cheek in her affection for Coulter (a la Andy Samberg’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad love song).
Actually, the video is pretty biting. Kauffman did her people proud. (The Jewish Telegraphic Agency has a nice interview.)
Hat tip: Ami Eden (who has a great new blog on the JTA’s Web site)
October 18, 2007, 4:19pm
Yid Vid: Arlen Specter, Funnyman
By Daniel Treiman
The Chicago Tribune’s Josh Drobnyk has the story:
Arlen Specter, the 77-year-old Pennsylvania senator and former Philadelphia district attorney, doesn’t exactly exude humor. But apparently he’s got a knack for stand-up comedy.
The five-term senator won second place in the annual D.C.’s Funniest Celebrity contest last night, finishing behind an editor for the satirical newspaper The Onion.
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