Are Jews defying stereotypes in baseball?
It used to be that you couldn’t talk baseball with a Jew for 60 seconds without hearing about Sandy Koufax. The only thing with Youkilis is that they talk about him defying stereotypes, but he’s fighting with Manny Ramirez and I always get worried about people getting angry. What if he hurts Manny Ramirez and he can’t play, and they blame the Jew for costing them the game? There’s still paranoia. If Bill Buckner had been Jewish, it would have been very upsetting. I can’t imagine that it would’ve been much more than 24 hours before somebody said – maybe not in public – “God, that fucking Jew.” I don’t know. I think I may be paranoid. Where did you start doing stand-up in Boston? Nick’s Comedy Stop. Billy Martin was the host— the open mic guy there. I think he’s the head writer for Bill Maher now. At the time, he was pretty unknown. I’ve heard you still drop into [the tiny Harvard Square comedy club] The Comedy Studio. I go in there all the time. I just try out new jokes. It’s probably t
