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How the humorless cruelty of Trump supporters betrays a Jewish tradition of insult comedy

JL;DR SUMMARY Benjamin Ivry critiques the misguided attempts of certain right-wing comedians to emulate the art of Jewish insult comedy, famously practiced by Don Rickles and others. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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