This season’s jokes were shot in a historic soundstage in Hollywood. Yes, that Hollywood. Tinsletown. The Dream Factory. Shooting there felt like we had come a mighty long way from our humble beginnings in an empty storefront in Highland Park, New Jersey. (In actuality it was 2768 miles, if you take 1-40, the Southern route, which you might want to do with the weather we’ve been having up North.) In fact, it wasn’t as far as it seemed. The first shoot, in New Jersey, was organized and cast primarily by my dad. The third shoot, in Hollywood, was organized and cast in large part by my cohort Eric Spiegelman’s dad. I found this mirrored paternal joke-gathering activity, from East coast to West, immensely satisfying. It felt like an apt summary of what we are trying to do. After all, in Hollywood or New Jersey, old Jews are old Jews. Maybe the chais on gold chains are a little easier to see in LA, nestled as they are in thatches of thick gray hair over tan chests and half buttoned Prada shirts. But, Hollywood or not, these men and women are still your aunts and uncles, your wise-cracking attorneys and your periodontists. Their jokes, some new, some not-so-new, were all reassuringly familiar. And why shouldn’t they be? These jokes are the oral history of a culture. As such, in our book, which will be released this fall by (shameless plug) Random House’s Villard Press, we have organized the jokes into chapters that represent important categories of American Jewish life. We have: Jewish Mothers, Food, Success, Rabbis, Husbands & Wives, Sex, Illness, Death and Oral Sex. You’ll want to read it for the insightful social criticism, the intellectual rigor and for the blowjob jokes. This season, in order to address complaints of depression caused by OJTJ withdrawal on Monday and Wednesday, we have new jokes on the first four days of the week. And, in honor of Passover, we’ll have bitter-herb Friday, with jokes presented by my disgruntled and somewhat angry second cousin Herbert. (Just kidding, every Friday we have a greatest hits compilation of the past week’s jokes. Anyway, cousin Herbert is much less bitter since he agreed to take the Zoloft.) Enjoy, and remember, laugh loud. We don’t hear so good.Tumblr (3.0; @oldjewstellingjokes)http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ17ah3AA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Malcolm Busch, “Drobkin”</h2> <p>One of the very best jokes on this site.</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/8432975951http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/8432975951Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:20:49 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gd3CYQA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Fred Rubin, “Air Conditioning”</h2> <p>Fred Rubin is intimately familiar with reruns. He wrote a lot of popular sitcoms from the 1980s!</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/8390444548http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/8390444548Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:49:02 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gpnHYwA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Ed Bornstein, “Milk Cow”</h2> <p>Ed Bornstein is the only person from Kentucky to appear on OJTJ.</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/8342941862http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/8342941862Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:11:44 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gobIKgA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Reruns! Cliff Lander, “Monkey and the Peanut”</p> <p>Do you know how many animal jokes we have in our library? So, so many.</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/8135196818http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/8135196818Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:55:37 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gaCFPAA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Dan Okrent, “Three Old Jews”</h2> <p>This is another classic joke. If you don’t love it, we’ll give you your money back.</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/8091085617http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/8091085617Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:21:28 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gqTSNwA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Ed McKirdy, “Talking Dog”</h2> <p>Another classic of classics.</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/8049241933http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/8049241933Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:06:03 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1go7eXAA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Ettie Steinberg, “Plastic Surgery”</h2> <p>Ettie Steinberg is one of the very best.</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7889169175http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7889169175Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:49:48 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gp" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Bernie Leibowitz, “The Jogger”</h2> <p>Yes.</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7849003062http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7849003062Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:23:24 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gf" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Norm Politziner, “The Best Hooker You Got”</h2> <p>We’re doing technical things to get the next season of OJTJ ready. I’d describe them to you, but you’d just hear the sound of a muted trumpet and daydream of macaroons.</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7807482152http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7807482152Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:14:02 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gqn1ZwA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Adriane Berg, “Morris Died”</h2> <p>One more week of reruns? Probably.</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7767220005http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7767220005Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:50:07 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gfvnYAA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Howie Bromberg, “Lamborghini”</h2> <p>Boca jokes coming soon!</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7620159589http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7620159589Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:04:54 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gpuFKwA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Ronnie Haber, “Long Island Duck”</h2> <p>This one’s great.</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7579774357http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7579774357Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:14:23 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gf3ZPwA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Bernie Leibowitz, “Philadelphia Waiter”</h2> <p>Man, is this a great joke.</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7537279175http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7537279175Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:00:19 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1goLuAgA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Richard Levine, “Show Me The Baby”</h2> <p>We’re getting there! Boca jokes coming soon!</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7491536960http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7491536960Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:06:30 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gf3ZUQA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Larry Aarons, “The Lone Ranger”</h2> <p>We move on, every day inching closer to the Boca Raton jokes.</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7345871301http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7345871301Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:47:06 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gpmJMAA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Richard Levine, “Guess How Old I Am?”</h2> <p>Reruns continue as we do the tech things we need to do before we play the jokes we filmed in Boca Raton. Soon!</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7305529376http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7305529376Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:24:08 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gozfWwA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Ronnie Haber & Judy Beeber, “Phone Call from Long Island”</h2> <p>Here’s a delightful little bit from earlier on in the last season of Old Jews Telling Jokes.</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7267555430http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7267555430Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:59:29 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gf" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Marty Adickman, “Dating Advice from the Rabbi”</h2> <p>More of the best of the past season, as we figure out how the Internet is going to bring you the Boca Raton jokes.</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7086638160http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7086638160Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:28:04 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gfvmcwA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Jonathan Avirom, “A Frog that Does Oral”</h2> <p>We’re still in reruns. New jokes soon! From Florida!</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7049763383http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7049763383Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:39:02 -0700<iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/hsJ1gfrCSgA" width="400" height="238" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Reruns! Ettie Steinberg, “Cure for Horniness”</h2> <p>Another classic from this season. Old Jews Telling Jokes, Boca Raton, is on its way!</p>http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7015335011http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/post/7015335011Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:45:57 -0700