Film and television have given us some standout Jewish characters and here are some of the funny lines they have delivered on screen.
- “I know, I know — we are Your chosen people. But, once in a while, can’t You choose someone else?”
-Tevye, “Fiddler on the Roof” (1971)
- “We have so much in common: her favorite color is black, my favorite color is black; her parents murdered by Cossacks, my parents murdered by Cossacks.”
-Herschel Greenbaum, “An American Pickle” (2020)
- “Alright, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
-Reg, “Monty Python’s Life of Bryan” (1979)
- “We were chosen by God — you were chosen by a pathetic little man who can’t even grow a full mustache.”
-Elsa, Jojo Rabbit (2019)
- “There’s things here! There’s rocks, there’s trees, there’s birds, there’s squirrels – come on, we’ll bless them all until we get vashnigyered.”
-Rabbi Tuckman, “Men in Tights” (1993)
- “You rush a miracle, you get rotten miracles.”
-Miracle Max, “The Princess Bride” (1987)
- “I don’t roll on Shabbos!”
-Walter Sobchak, “The Big Lebowski” (1998)
- “If Jews control the media, why can’t I get on Jimmy Kimmel?”
-Krusty the Clown, “The Simpsons”
- “Did you hear the one about the Jewish terrorist? He was gonna hijack a plane, but he didn’t wanna use his miles.”
-Hesh Rabkin, “The Sopranos”
- “I didn’t want to throw you off with too much Jewiness on a first date.”
-Rabbi Raquel, “Transparent”