On 11/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Yoshie Furuhashi</b> <<a href="mailto:critical.montages@gmail.com">critical.montages@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Is that true? If it is, Hebrew as Kazakh could give a very<br>interesting twist to Cohen's minstrelsy . . . provided the audience<br>understood the language (though the point would be lost on me as I<br>don't know Hebrew, alas). Has any reviewer discussed this point?
<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Yep. The regularly awesome Jody Rosen did here in Slate, locating Cohen in the vaudeville tradition of ethnic/racial humor:<br><br><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2152773/">http://www.slate.com/id/2152773/
</a><br><br>[Man I feel lonely when it comes to Cohen. He's just not that funny to me, and I love some good cringe comedy. Worse, I feel like I'm not into it because it's too broad, that everyone's in on the joke.]<br><br>
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