Saw a weird post on bsky about like the top 25% of high-earning comedians are Jewish, despite being less than 4% of the US population

Yea man, it's weird that historically oppressed people would figure out an alternative for unimaginable trauma, and pass it down

Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Henny Youngman. We can all agree that these are very Jewish names

Pioneers of comedy. Fucking Gene Wilder was born "Jerome Silberman"

@healyn wow, I didn't know that. I did know Rodney Dangerfield was Jacob Cohen!
It's also so cool to listen to Eddie Murphy 80s sets, Pryor, Dick Gregory, and think, "these fellas kept politics out of it"
Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is, White Catholics like myself are the most oppressed class in the history of the world
(I should have given @jackdaw_ruiz a heads up before posting this. Long time coming though, imo)

@healyn

didn't even read the earlier thread, just saw you dropping truth bombs and had to boost. assume it's all good!

@jackdaw_ruiz @healyn I am Jewish and I get paid well but I am NOT a comedian! Explain THAT, healyn.
@breakfastgolem @jackdaw_ruiz I have just been checkmated :(
@healyn @jackdaw_ruiz Sometimes I need to step in and just apply logic to the two of you. Keeps things running smoothly around here.
@breakfastgolem @jackdaw_ruiz the normal style instance is uh, to put it mildly, a little chaotic lol. we do things just a bit differently here 😜
@healyn @breakfastgolem @jackdaw_ruiz next you're going to tell me about the Nobel laureates because they crafty.

@healyn @breakfastgolem

i am reminded of the words of honorary normal.style poster SinΓ©ad O'Connor, who once sang:

"These are dangerous days.To say what you feel is to dig your own grave."

i like to think that it needn't be that way, and, perhaps, we can have a world where we offer to dig each other's graves 😌

@jackdaw_ruiz @breakfastgolem if only I could pin this post...
@healyn @jackdaw_ruiz I've already dug your fuckin' grave, pal.

@breakfastgolem @healyn

make sure it's california king proportions. I wanna be able to stretch out my legs in there.

@breakfastgolem good luck getting me in there!
@breakfastgolem @healyn @jackdaw_ruiz wait how'd you manage to dig a sinkhole?
@healyn as a homosexual, a GAY homosexual, I apologize for the oppression of your people and the entire industry known as β€œgay for pay.”
@healyn I had this conversation long ago but I decided to note all of the Mormons in entertainment. Why are there so many? πŸ™„
@revndm @healyn this one is because they don't care about child labor and actively encourage it
@georgespolitzer @healyn well, to be fair, I’ve long believed that my nieces would benefit from learning to make a good martini.
@healyn a lot of our terms for things to do in comedy and like comedic stage acting comes straight from yiddish loan words. its really cool actually
@georgespolitzer It is incredibly easy to criticize Israel without being really fucking antisemitic
@healyn It’s closer to 80 percent and 2.4 percent. Give us some credit.
@healyn wild that people who weren't allowed in trade guilds would gravitate towards the professions they were allowed to do.
@healyn Also, could be like Jessica Rabbit citing she loves Roger Rabbit over physical appearance because he makes her laugh!