Catskills comedian Stewie Stone doing his stand-up routine. Stewie Stone is living proof you can take the kid outa Brooklyn, but you can't take Brooklyn outa the kid. Even his name, Stewie, comes direct from Flatbush. "In Brooklyn," he explains, "we're very big on vowels. We put 'E's at the end of everything - Hermie, Frankie, Stewie." Before Stewie got to be a big man in Vegas, he was a little kid in Brooklyn and comedy was his protector. "I was a terrible introvert, and real small for my age. I found if I could make the rest of the kids laugh, they wouldn't beat me up." But he certainly didn't have dreams of becoming a comic - not yet, at least. "Let's face it," he says, "You don't say 'When I group up I want to be Henny Youngman. One summer Stewie was working with bands in New York on weekends, when he was offered a mid-week job at the famed Concord Hotel in the Catskills. They needed someone to entertain the guests when it rained. For $35 and gas money, Stewie opened his act at the Concord...no lights; just lightning, and the accompaniment of thunder. "I kept praying for rain, 'cause I only got the job if it rained. I tell people I did all the morning shows there. This pace continued - comedian by rainy weekday in the mountains, drummer in the big city on weekends - until one day Stewie was offered a full-time job as social director of the hotel. He packed in his drums, packed up his umbrella, and headed north to make his fame and fortune. The Catskills have always been a great spawning ground for new talent, and Stewie's case was no exception. One day a stranger walked up to him, said, "You're funny. Can you talk on stage?" and proceeded to hire him nation-wide. The turning point came when Stewie opened for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons at Bachelors III in Fort Lauderdale. He then spent four years touring with the group, and played virtually every major nightclub in the States, including the Copa in New York, Mr. Kelly's in Chicago and Pittsburgh's Holiday House. Stewie really hit the jackpot, when he arrived in Las Vegas. He has opened for Paul Anka, Frankie Avalon, Dionne Warwick, Ben Vereen, Bobby Vinton, Sonny and Cher, to name just a few; and has earned himself the reputation of being one of the best in business. More recently, he has been the opening act for Engelbert Humperdinck and the two played to sell-out crowds whereever they appeared. A comic's job is never easy. "When you go out there, you're all alone he explains. "It's like slaying a dragon without armor. You think in your head that you're a knight, but when you get out there it's just you. And if you die, it's total rejection."

Jewish comic legend and prolific movie director, Mel Brooks, talks about his Jewish upbringing, growing up Moshe ("Melvin") Kaminsky in Brooklyn, New York.

One of the great Jewish comedians of our time is Kevin Pollak - a master of imitations and a really super actor in movies. Here he appears doing a comedy act on The David Letterman Show on late-nite television.

An outrageous and hilarious spoof film by Jewish comic star Sarah Silverman entitled "A Very Convenient Truth" aimed directly at the environmental shock documentary by ex-VP Al Gore ("An Inconvenient Truth") for which he won a Nobel Prize. It is funny all the way through - even if you takes Gore's proposals seriously!

"SIXTY SIX" (first five minutes of this great comedy movie) - England, the summer of '66 and the country is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. For 12-year-old Bernie (Sulkin), the biggest day of his life is looming, the day he becomes a man - his Bar Mitzvah. However Bernie's North London family seems a little distracted. His father Manny (Eddie Marsan) is concerned about the giant supermarket opening opposite his grocery shop, a business he shares with his more charismatic younger brother, Jimmy (Serafinowicz) - and it's making Manny's bizarre obsessive compulsive disorder even worse than usual. Between worrying about Manny and Bernie's older brother Alvie, mother Esther (Bonham Carter) barely has time to notice her better behaved younger son, and the only attention Bernie ever gets from Alvie is a punch for stepping onto the wrong side of their shared bedroom. Bernie believes his Bar Mitzvah is about to change all this. He'll no longer be the kid everyone ignores, and he envisions and begins to plan the perfect ceremony and reception, where everyone assembled will acknowledge his new status as a man. Unfortunately for Bernie, things don't quite go according to plan!

Jewish comedian legend Woody Allen in this classic stand-up comic act on the Dean Martin Show in the 1960s.

In the film Circumcise Me, lapsed Catholic turned Orthodox-Jewish-comedian Yisrael Campbell shares the life story that inspired his hilarious comedy act, but on a recent trip to New York City, Campbell revealed some tidbits about his life that you won't see in the film. We caught up with Campbell at his alma mater, the Circle in The Square Drama School, to find out how he went from being a struggling actor named Christopher in Los Angeles to a successful comedian named Yisrael in Jerusalem. Host Alana Newhouse provides the voice over here.

Allan Blumenstyk, a ventriloquist from Israel, introduces "Chaim" as he performs at the International Ventriloquists Convention in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky.

"Hundred and Two Mature: The Art of Harry Lieberman" Trailer - Harry Lieberman, at age 102, shares with wit and wisdom his art, which celebrates Talmudic lore and Jewish life in long-ago Eastern Europe, in this documentary which describes his transformation from retired businessman to artist who, in his old age, is "living on the top of the world." The film shows the connections between Lieberman's art and his life-"memories from 80, 90, 94 years back"-and tells his original stories as background to the paintings. We see him painting, sculpting, and meeting with other senior citizens at the Golden Age Club in Great Neck, New York-where he started painting at the age of 80-and surrounded by young students when working as an "artist in residence" at the Fairfax High School in Los Angeles. A quote from the film: "I am a hundred and two. I know that I'm not young but I don't call myself old either. I call myself a hundred and two mature because the maturity is coming with the age."

The remarkable Jewish comedian and actor Billy Crystal on the David Letterman show in April 2008 - talking about the Jewish New Year and his appearance at bat in Yankee Stadium and much more - very funny!

Catskills comedian Adrianne Tolsch doing her stand-up routine on Florida retirement Jews and there is alot to laugh about that.

Jewish comic legend Jerry Seinfeld returns to standup comedy after the famous last episode of the his amazingly successful TV show that attracted an audience of 75 million. Here is his historic return to standup comedy on the David Letterman show on March 21st, 2001.

This clip brings home the point in such a funny way - kids are not easy to raise - whether or not they are adopted.

One of the most successful Jewish comedians of the last few decades is Jerry Seinfeld - here is a piece of Jewish comic history as Seinfeld debuts his standup comedy act on HBO in 1981. Can you name the famous comedy duo doing the introduction - if so, enter it into the comments box below!

From Rabbi Bob Alper's new comedy DVD, on weddings, dating and the Jewish craziness about them.

Really funny standup comedian Jeffrey Ross routine on dating, relatives, life, and much more!