Im assuming you are Uncle Davids daughter? I never met Uncle David but my father always said he was the single funniest person in his life growing up and often mentioned him. He actually mentioned many times how he was still one of the funniest if not funniest people he'd ever known and this is a man who was friends with Lenny Bruce and George Carlin. Last time I checked they were fairly funny as well.
Although we've never met , we did share my fathers incredible humor which Im sure was in many ways molded by your fathers, so i thank him for that. Im sure your father was extremely funny, rest assured he would have loved what my father turned into and im gonna go out on a limb and say my old man could have given him a strong run for the money in the humor dept!
Im really glad you left a note. this is the only note Ive had the strength to answer thus far as you are family and my fathers respect for your father broke me out of me funk while reading your note. Your seder reference knocked me out of my blues.
One of the funniest memories of my childhood was of my father with me and my mom and brothers at my mothers family seder. There was always a contentious relationship between my father and his in laws. So much tension that indeed it reminded me of a W.C Fields film even at the age of 8, I knew better and found tons of humor in it, I could have easily been saddened by it. He found a way to make it light and defer the bad relationship he had with them. Im not sure how old I was but my father in the middle of what I always ( SORRY MOM! ) deemed to be a bullshit seder decided to take an extra lean piece of corned beef and have it hang out of his mouth and started yelling "Doctor .........Doctor .......MY TONGUE MY TONGUE!!!!! " He was not really a prop comic but on this night he just rolled with it and we all , just were rolling on the floor. I barely got through the 4 questions.......i think that night there were three questions........and one of them was "Why on this night am I laughing so hard?"
Side note, he always wanted to pay his friend Walt Hazzard a couple of bucks to walk in as Elijah the Prophet when the doors were opened. I think that was one of the hippest ideas we never pulled off. So Mel Brooks of him.
I dont think he ever once behaved at a seder. I now know that for a fact based on your childhood memories of him. He would always help me find the Afi Komen as well.
he was such a funny funny funny , incredible individual.
thank you so much for your note, it brought back a ton of funny memories and believe me, I have tons and tons of them to begin with.
Judy
Im assuming you are Uncle Davids daughter? I never met Uncle David but my father always said he was the single funniest person in his life growing up and often mentioned him. He actually mentioned many times how he was still one of the funniest if not funniest people he'd ever known and this is a man who was friends with Lenny Bruce and George Carlin. Last time I checked they were fairly funny as well.
Although we've never met , we did share my fathers incredible humor which Im sure was in many ways molded by your fathers, so i thank him for that. Im sure your father was extremely funny, rest assured he would have loved what my father turned into and im gonna go out on a limb and say my old man could have given him a strong run for the money in the humor dept!
Im really glad you left a note. this is the only note Ive had the strength to answer thus far as you are family and my fathers respect for your father broke me out of me funk while reading your note. Your seder reference knocked me out of my blues.
One of the funniest memories of my childhood was of my father with me and my mom and brothers at my mothers family seder. There was always a contentious relationship between my father and his in laws. So much tension that indeed it reminded me of a W.C Fields film even at the age of 8, I knew better and found tons of humor in it, I could have easily been saddened by it. He found a way to make it light and defer the bad relationship he had with them. Im not sure how old I was but my father in the middle of what I always ( SORRY MOM! ) deemed to be a bullshit seder decided to take an extra lean piece of corned beef and have it hang out of his mouth and started yelling "Doctor .........Doctor .......MY TONGUE MY TONGUE!!!!! " He was not really a prop comic but on this night he just rolled with it and we all , just were rolling on the floor. I barely got through the 4 questions.......i think that night there were three questions........and one of them was "Why on this night am I laughing so hard?"
Side note, he always wanted to pay his friend Walt Hazzard a couple of bucks to walk in as Elijah the Prophet when the doors were opened. I think that was one of the hippest ideas we never pulled off. So Mel Brooks of him.
I dont think he ever once behaved at a seder. I now know that for a fact based on your childhood memories of him. He would always help me find the Afi Komen as well.
he was such a funny funny funny , incredible individual.
thank you so much for your note, it brought back a ton of funny memories and believe me, I have tons and tons of them to begin with.
thank you so much.
adam