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History of the Catskills and Borscht Belt comedy.
+ Last of the Mohicans
+ Growing up in Liberty, NY
+ The difference between Borscht Belt humour and observational comedy
+ The gendered implications of telling a dirty joke
Works used and mentioned:
- Red Nation podcast episode about Last of the Mohicans
- The Catskills; from wilderness to Woodstock by Alf Evers
- The Catskills: its history and how it changed America by Stephen Silverman and Raphael D. Silver
- In the Catskills: a century of Jewish experience in the mountains edited by Phil Brown
- It happened in the Catskills: an oral history in the words of busboys, bellhops, guests, proprietors, comedians, agents, and other who lived it edited by Myrna Frommer and Harvey Frommer
- When comedy went to school directed by Ron Frank & Mevlut Akkaya
- Bible of Dirty Jokes by Eileen Pollack
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