“An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American humor, some of it comes out of playing the dozens in which you insult the other person or insult the other person's mother, and so much of Jewish humor is like, you're insulting yourself. It's totally self-deprecating.” KindPersonsSelfFormMotherDifferencesInterestingLike YouTypeAfrican AmericanInsultDozenInsultingSelf DeprecatingJewish Humor Author:Terry Gross
“my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.” FactsMotherTasteInsult Author:Merrill Markoe