Italians Aren’t Kosher
Julia comes from an incredibly religious, Jewish family. During a radio program she conned her unwitting parents to call in and then, on air, convinced them she had started dating this very Catholic Italian guy she had met at school. Within seconds the air waves were bathed a flurry of yiddish insults and one of the most absurdly stereotypical Jewish family arguments.
WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE
Submitted By: Michael K and Entertonement.com
@crazyemails
LMAO.
Oh, god, so many fond memories of my grandmother threatening to die every time something happened she didn’t like. *dying myself* Her jerky parents got exactly what they deserved.
At first I thought this was real. Lol.
As someone that was raised an orthodox jew, I can tell you that this is completely fake. The parents sound like Italian parents if anything. They didn’t drop a single Hebrew word, apart from kosher, and please, any dumbass can use kosher in day-to-day speech.
Small minded bigots.
Poor dad. I kinda feel sorry for his bigoted palpitating heart. But mom??? Guilt trip central. WHEW!
Ha ha ha ha! XD
OMFG! That was fuckin’ great.
My dogs, however, started crying
Poor babies don’t like the racism.
LOL Jews.
Hehe, wonder what this dad actually did to his daughter :p
Seemed like both he and her mum was ready to kill :p
This is hilarious! I like how at the end there he tries to act all nonchalant about it and throw in a joke of his own, like he was cool the whole time.
Wow. This is right up there with the radio DJs that prank called that Nascar fan about African Americans driving in Nascar. Hilarious if not offensive.
HA HA
Racism
blergh, that must have been the most disgusting piece of racism, hatred and ignorance i’ver ever heard. if i was their daughter i’d never ever go back home again. i’d rather live in a prison or on the street or in a heap of shit.
I agree. I didn’t find it funny in the least. Absolutely disgusting.
Exactly. It’s weird how at the end nobody seems to have a problem with the incredible bigotry and racism displayed here, even the daughter. As if the joke is not the racism itself, because they all (including the DJ and the daughter) agree with that, it’s just the way her parents get all worked up.
If it’s real, that is. Especially the dad does sound suspiciously Italian here and there…
“I’m coming over there, and if I find this guy, I’m going to jail for killing him! Get HOME RIGHT NOW!!!!”
That was like the height! LOL
I think I would disown my parents. Of course that girl is probably equally racist, or has a bunch of emotional/mental conflict issues from being raised by those jackasses. Distinctions between forms of people who follow God/Jesus are just ridiculous, and good ways to divide God’s followers and create fights. Stupid humans. I think she should go and marry a German Satanist just to see if her parents really would “kill themselves with a knife”. It would probably be doing the world a favor.
That noise at the end was hilarious ahahaha.
hilarious
Wow. What bigotry..
Julie laughs at the end? Hey? “My Daddy is a fricken crazy psycho ass, hahahaha!” Thats not cricket
Man alive, its hard to believe there are people like this out there… And i’ve seen some prejudice in my time!
Wow… just simply stunning. For all the hate that has been spat at Jews throughout history, these 2 are setting their race & religion back about 5,000 years. this is how my mother would react to my bringin a guy home (which is why I never did).
That was hilarious! I could hear the dad’s veins about to burst in his head. The dad even sounded Italian, or is that a regional accent? Is this from NY/NJ area?
I loved the “kill me with a knife” guilt trip by the mom!
I think it’s from Z100 (100.3FM). They do a “Phone tap”, and I think someone else said KZZU did or does it? But I don’t know what radio station that is. But I do know that Z100 is NJ/NY area.
at least he was good-hearted about it in the end. he was obviously relieved it wasn’t real though.
crazy racism and religionism (??)
Both the parents and the boyfriend are religious bigots.
Is it kosher to mail a lump of C4 strapped to a timer to your parents?
Nope, but lets just say it is!
dads voice was funny though
might be the missing foreskin
That’s inappropriate, man
Why?
cause he is referencing the fact that Jewish people are in some very tangible ways different than non-Jewish people, and we are all enlightened enough to be offended by this observation, but only because it is put in a funny way.
Oh my goodness….
This is…
No way.
No fucking way.
Stereotypical Jewish potty-mouth mothers and fathers aren’t kosher…
No, probably not. But you could find out.
Hmmm…Set up and exposed on a city wide radio broadcast and now he’s a international laughing stock…Love it
More things like this should be done to christian fundamentalists…
He was jewish.
I was singling out christian fundamentalist/evangelicals for future treatments in this manner…
This is the best example of bigotry. Why “singling out” evangelicals? Why not Buddhists, atheists, agnostics, or any other believers of all sorts?
Because the evangelicals/fundamentalists have the longest and worst track record for trying to impose their wants for society on the rest of us.
Your right-it is bigotry. But it’s something they have earned thru the aforementioned track record. It’s not something that was just whipped up willy nilly for no logical reason…
What? Lots of evangelicals are jerkasses. Where in the Bible does it say “Thou shalt get on cable TV and try to swindle cash from Me-fearing, hard-working people who are just too dumb to see the inherent stupidity in the whole scheme”?
Yes, evangelicals are as special breed that deserve to be bitch-slapped. If you want to believe in your god, go right ahead, but I don’t want to hear it, and if you make me hear it, we are gonna have problems.
Mama Mia!
Wow. Just wow.
That was an old, what they call “Phone Tap” on KZZU a few years ago
I highly agree with Strange Magic. More ignorant people should be exposed, maybe embarrassment will make them change a bit.
Agree with you, Danielle, but I think the unfortunate thing is people who are truly bigoted are NOT embarrassed. I am quite certain that while these parents might not have liked everyone in the listening audience of z100 (and its many affiliates) to hear what horrible racist a-holes they are, they also don’t think anything they said was wrong. It’s why when politicians get caught forwarding racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. emails or telling bigoted jokes they apologize for “possibly offending” someone but never seem to get just what they did that should cause an outcry. People are sad.
lol jews!
Yeah, Rocco is a big-time asshole. No one click on his link pls
and if the guy was black and they did this prank it would be a crime.
Speaking of assholes… no one click through to the link on Rocco’s username. It’s a lame rickroll, which brings up endless popups on your screen.
Got me in trouble at work fucker.
That was ridiculous. I can’t believe people can be so ignorant. Jesus Christ.
[blasphemy intended]
“To the moon, Alice! Too the moon!”
Holy pile of crazy, Batman.
even though it’s fake I still lol’d
Thank you EFCP, my word of the week is now “KOSHER”.
Sorta reminds me of what happened when my grandparents found out my Dad was marrying a Non-Portuguese/Non-Catholic.
Lost their frickin’ minds.
Of course, they were no death threats exchanged, but it is a shame that my grandparents barely acknowledge me and my brothers because we’re only half Portuguese and not baptised Catholic.
I heard this track before- it just makes me sad.Not to bring anyone down but whenever there is a hateful outburst like this it’s just really depressing.
I don’t really think it’s funny- I think most slightly religious people would be upset because they have so much hate to work against anyway.
Bah.
- I mean slightly religious people who LISTEN to this- not defending her parents made of spiritual FAIL. Just to clarify.
If I had brought home a black or Hispanic woman when I wasa kid,my grandfathers would have come uncorked. Well….1 grandpa would have thought it was cool if I kept it under the radar. The other would have thought it would never be ok. My Grandmothers would have “tsk-tsk”ed then let it go and been very nice to whoever it was…My Dad would never have accepted a non white with me but a Hispanic would have been ok. And my Mom would not have cared at all but would have to follow my Dads lead to keep peace….
Of course I just did what I wanted to anyhow and never brought it up…
Now that my Dad is getting old(er) he’s reembracing his small town Waco Texas baptist roots and is going on about how many gays there are and the sin etc….He’s learned not to brooch the subject with me though and I’m not even gay…..He knows I’ll stand up against anything that the bible calls a sin and neither of us wants that particular fuss to break out.
This honestly and truly disgusts me. Coming from a religious home, I completely see where this father is coming from. This is their religion, you can’t call them small-minded for sticking to it.
Are you kidding? Of course you can! Religion in general breeds small mindedness because it encourages people NOT to think for themselves and to just accept what they’re told.
you see where their coming from? how the hell is that possible. and i must say, i wont call him small minded for sticking to his religion, ill call him small minded for believing in the shit forced into his head when he was a child, and even though he didn’t exactly have a choice surely he should have enough sense not to lose his mind when his daughter tells him shes going out with someone of a different race. And i mean how the hell could he not tell this was fake?
Fake. Coming from a religious Jewish family, all the people in this call can hardly be religious. The only Jewish things they said are the word “Jewish”, and the word “Kosher” which was hardly used in a proper context..
Wow, a whole bunch of people who know nothing about their own religion, but scream about it anyway.
Sure I can…and often to…
And with much glee in the process…
This reply was for Lizzy who says I/we can’t make fun of bigots and religious nuts…
It’s my hobby and I like it to much to quit
She didn’t made this history up. She did copied it from a movie on cable tv, which explains it all.
If you were an Italian or Jewish New Yorker, you would realize this is entirely too common and hilarious. Z100 plays these all the time.
sounds like my house growing up
As an Italian, I’m defintely offended
This is why religion is stupid, it has these pointless rules that breed hatred and segregation
I agree.
If you listen to when the dad first spoke to the guy, he tried to keep calm and resolve things amicably, but then the “italian guy” tried to provoke him. The goal of the show was to piss off the Dad … so guys pls, stop calling him racist.
By my view, he didn’t provoke the dad. The “Italian guy”, as you referred to him, knew her dad was bigoted toward Italians. He was drawing the bigotry out—baiting him, as they say—to embarrass seemingly decent people for their ill-conceived notions of genetic/behavioral relationships. If her parents weren’t bigots, they wouldn’t have reacted that way. Her parents are bigots (don’t know about the racist tag, or if we consider Jews a race versus ethnicity). You can’t excuse a racist because someone put them in a position to be reactionary. Sometimes keeping up appearances can be a good thing, especially in the age of the internets. Politeness is a forgotten virtue. What was he supposed to do, pretend not to be Italian? I mean, it’s not like their noses/penchant for creation of ethnic enclaves in urban areas aren’t comparable. (You see what I did there?)
“I got a cross on my neck, and I believe in Christianity”
“Well, we don’t believe in that.”
“Well, you should.”
That’s not provoking? I don’t see how *telling someone that they shouldn’t believe their religion* can be considered merely “baiting.” It’s pretty straight-up harassing. The first line there can be called baiting, and if you’ll notice, the father doesn’t fall for it. The second line crosses a boundary. Sorry, but I’ve got to rather firmly disagree with you here. Like I mentioned below, if you’ll pay attention, the guy doesn’t really say anything against Italians. Just against this specific guy.
Nah….Just because he tried to hide it does not clear him of being a asshole….
Dave, if you listen to the clip they were clearly against the relationship solely because of his ethnicity before he was even introduced on the phone.
You say this like he and his wife were completely reasonable and fine, until he provoked him.
The racism started a long time before the DJ even touched the phone.
You wouldn’t happen to be Jewish would you Dave?
It amazes me that Jews can be racist beyond belief in the U.S. and yet everyone just lets them run riot.
If you are critical of anyone that is jewish you are automatically anti-semitic. Same way if you are critical of Barack Obama you are called a racist.
6 years of ethnical cleansing of your people during WW2 and you still don’t get the irony do you?
Dave, you’ve got to be sh1tting me. He tried to be amicable and resolve the situation? He had already said he would kill the guy for dating his daughter. How the hell is that amicable?
Reminds me of my (Brooklyn born and raised and very Italian) parent’s reaction when they found out he was dating a “wasp” – from California, no less! There are hillbillies everywhere, eh?
(They were fine with me after we met and I stayed with them often when visiting NY. But their kneejerk reaction was surprisingly enraged!)
This is actually really sad….
This… This is why I don’t listen to the radio. These little pranks that the DJs pull are really rather stupid. And I’m sorta ashamed. I’m Christian, not Jewish, but I admit. All religions share one giant problem that Nick pointed out. It’s rather sad really. -.-
words fail me….
Reminds me a bit of “The Nanny”…at the beginning when the mother threatens to kill herself and all that stuff ^^
One of the funniest things I’ve heard in a while.
For those of you feeling all sad and crap about racism and bigotry, consider this. When you angrily confront people like this, they get angry in return and perpetuate the situation. It solves nothing.
Instead of being all indignant about it, *laugh*. Their over the top, psychotic level of bigotry is hilarious! Look down on them, laugh, and enjoy their idiocy as though they were clowns. Being angry gives them power. Laughing and mockery takes it away. Lighten up… not everything requires righteous indignation.
I always thought that “looking down” on someone because of their beliefs was bigotry. Hm.
I’m going to guess that you are niether Jewish nor Italian, but being the subject of racism is not funny in the slightest. To simply laugh at a bigot does nothing to help those who are being called out…
so its ok for jews to be racist?
I feel so sorry for that poor girl.
I think the best thing she could do for herself is to live her own life, no matter what her parents think, and if they have so much of a problem that they threaten to pull her out of school (wtf????) and come take her home, she should have a place planned out where she can go that her parents don’t know about, and can’t reach her.
The religious fanaticism and unwarranted ethnic hatred don’t bother me nearly as much as these people’s assumption that they can halt their daughter’s education and future over her choice of who to be with. Even if it was a joke, I’m still appalled at both parents.
I’m an Italian Jew and this is just fucking hilarious
I’m an Italian Catholic, and I thought it was hilarious too.
I am an Italian atheist. I laughed at it, but it left a bitter aftertaste.
im not italian, christian, jewish, or athiest. and this was halarious
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This is a bit blown out of proportion for the purposes of radio audience. Re-listen, and pay attention. The issue that the parents have, specifically, is that the guy isn’t Jewish. I may have missed something, but I’m pretty sure nothing bad is ever said specifically about Italians, just the word used as a pejorative. But it’s used specifically only as a pejorative with regards to who an appropriate partner is, and as a substitute for “non-Jew.”
I want to emphasize: I’m not excusing anything said. Just want to put some context in there.
I’m Jewish, but I’m non-religious, and I’m very much left-wing progressive. But even for me, religion is a factor when I seriously think about relationships. Because it’s a part of my legacy to any future kids I may have. And legacies are important. It’s not a deal-breaker by any means, but it registers.
When someone believes *very* strongly in their religion, they want to make sure that it becomes a part of their legacy to their children and grandchildren. And when they think that this is something that’s guaranteed, but then find themselves in a position where it’s threatened, they react poorly.
Again, I’m not defending anything from the audio clip. Just asking that people look a bit deeper and try to see it from the parents’ perspectives.
This doesn’t seem real at all, I have trouble believing this wasn’t choreographed
Hahaha…..OMG!!! This is ridiculous! This is just ridiculous. The guy actually sounded like Scarface!!
” I don’t like you, I don’t like anything about you, and if I see you, I’ll break you in 10 little pieces”
um…am I the only one who thinks this is obviously fake?
@fish:”Because it’s a part of my legacy” LOL what legacy is that? Religious legacy? You mean the convenient parts that you’re OK with? Or is it the ones based on fear and conformity.
That phone dialogue sounds choreographed. If it’s not choerographed then every Jew with a clue ought to be offended by a characterization the reduces ethnic Jews to feeble witted, provincials.
hi everybody. i am jew from latinoamerica. i try to keep my religion the more i can. For me the religion is very very important. i beleave that everething in my life G”d give it to me. my happiness and my sadness. and i thanks and pray every day to G”d and ask him for health, money and help me to be good with other people. and when i bring to my home food for my daugthers i beleave G”d give it to me. and i think i am a good man and i am very happy. but is not easy, the jew religion have very much laws very hard to keep. nobody that dont beleave will succed to keep the religion the way he should. so, because i wish the same for my daugthers, i teach them to have friendship with jews that keep relgion the way i do. i never told them that we are better than them or they are wrong or something is just another way of life good for them but diferent the way we and my fathers before us life. i dont think i am a racist. if any italian or human being will have the same way of life i beleave is good for me and for the humanity is very wellcome to my family…
These are not my parents but they might as well have been. Their reaction to their daughter’s situation is similiar to my parents’ in a similiar situation. It’s nice to know that other people have parents who think they can control their adult children and don’t have a grip on reality.
why does the dad sound 10x more italian than the “italian” guy. Come on he sounds exactly like tony soprano.
That’s not an Italian accent, that’s a Brooklyn accent.
Wow.
Ok, I have a Jewish girlfriend, and I’m an ex-catholic atheist. I have to feel lucky, hearing that, that her parents are nothing like those two religious bigots.
Seriously, you know, you hear about racial and secular stereotypes, and you think, “oh, yeah, that’s just exaggeration; real people aren’t that insane.”
Well, I’m sorry. I suppose this will seem anti-semitic, but from that audio, I consider the two people that are presented as “Julie”s parents to be Ur-Jews. That is, they are characatures of everything ugly, demonizing, and (I suppose, “mostly”, rather than “entirely”) untrue said about Jewish people.
That’s similar to how I felt about George’s parents on Seinfeld, which is why I qualified who the individuals were – I am in doubt as to whether they’re real people, and not just characters invented for the radio show.
Speaking as someone who is Jewish (although not very religious), I can tell you there’s a big difference between so-called “racism” and the very strong feeling that many Jews have that their children should be involved with and marry only other Jews. Most Jewish people who feel this way are 100% fine with non-romantic relations with other nationalities, and have great respect for other kinds of people, they just feel very, very strongly about continuing Judaic lineage. Who can blame us, after being nearly wiped out so many times?
The mother wasn’t saying that the guy himself wasn’t kosher. She was saying that he didn’t keep kosher, and so his lips had touched unkosher things, such as pork. To her, being raised never eating anything unkosher, that is just revolting. To her, it’s like kissing someone who ate poop.
Yeah, they both went apeshit and lost their minds and acted like lunatics, but it wasn’t racism.
Anyways, I used to listen to the Z morning Zoo all the time (Z-100 is an NYC station, probably also parts of NJ)! I love that the father says he used to listen to the Z Zoo when he was a kid. At least they had a good sense of humor when they found out it was a joke.
You raise a really good point, but I have to disagree with you, it is still racist. One test for that is, what would this clip sound like if it came from a Southern white guy, talking about black people. Racist as hell. Even your post about continuing lineage, in Southern white guy context, sounds incredibly racist. So can Jewish people get away with the same attitudes that would be considered racist if other people held them, just because they were persecuted in the past… It is complicated because there is also a valid religion mixed in with Judaism too, but the KKK is also mixed in with some form of Christianity. I dunno, I call double standard.
Oh, and Josh, that isn’t an “Italian” accent, that’s a NY/NJ accent. Anyone whose family has lived in this area for years sounds like that.
People who listen to “morning zoo” style radio DJs should be shot in the face.
Somebody should give those two a good long sound beating.
Fucking idiots protecting that jewish scumbags. Her parents are fucking bigots. Stop protecting them because they happen to have even bigger noses than the Italians.
No people are more racist than jews.
Thank you, NOTKOSHER, for proving yourself wrong.
2 of my ex-girlfriends (both of which are still good friends) are Jewish. Very open-minded people, and both atheist. Their religious parents didn’t care about their lack of religion, and didn’t care that they dated an Irish guy, either.
Sounds like you’re just a bigot, projecting his issues onto those he hates. I’d hazard a guess and say it’s because you’re harbouring feelings of inadequacy, and probably some kind of self-loathing that you’ve decided to direct at the rest of the world instead of admitting that you have a problem. You should get help.
Twat waffle alert…Notkosher has been singled out for a bashing with the Frozen Tuna of Wisdom…
It’s always fun to see people like you at My doorstep, NotKosher. Did you know that lightning makes for an effective enema, even after you’re dead?
I am not sure if I exist in the religion we are talking about here, NotKosher, but I too will rape your skanky ass very shortly. (high fives God)
Yes, the guy posing at the boyfriend was totally pushing the father (c’mon, “how about I bring her home naked”??), but absolutely no Orthodox (”incredibly religious”) Jewish girl would do that to her parents. And no Orthodox parents would speak like that, using that kind of language. Except possibly to someone saying “how about I bring her home naked”. Then even my mother-in-law who barely uses the word “damn” would probably swear at this guy.
And after having grown up listening to the Z Morning Zoo, with Elvis and Elliot back in the day, they used to do all sorts of pranks and jokes, but never anything this cruel and mean. I’m disappointed – in them, and in the people that think this is remotely funny.
If this girl knew her parents had such strict views, how unkind of her to provoke them in a public arena so that they could seem like horrible people.
I can understand what her parents mean. The mother said “he eats pork? You can’t kiss him” The problem wasn’t with his italian heritage, it was the fact that he doesn’t live by their ethics. Parents have the right to care about the type of guy their daughter dates.
If a parent pays for you to go to college, you’re a jerk if you reward them by making them look like an idiot to the entire internet. Julia is the WORST.
NEVER EVER are italians “bigger in their pants”
So far as the Jewish parents not wanting their children to marry a non-Jew: yawn. So what?
But how foul-mouthed, angry, tense, and lacking in self-control her parents are is ridiculous!
Whoah, they’re such clowns. The mother attempts to guilt trip the daughter & the father exhibits the same manipulative behavior. I bet the girl isnt allowed to date anyone “non kosher” as her bigot parents put it.
The dad sounds like Yah-go from aladin
“He could be a murderer!”????
wtf
Obv. they would object to her being in a serious relationship with someone who doesn’t share their religious views and values but the fact that they were so rude about it is what makes them emailsfromcrazypeople worthy. and nasty
As long as people believe in gods, this sort of thing will happen.
yea, gotta love all the bigotry that divides the followers of Abrahamic religions
Is anyone else in the mood for zesty spaghetti sauce and meatballs now?
@Hoopy Frood
what…they got no jews in brooklyn??
Good call.@Firelight27
Okay, sorry for the double post, but I have something else to say. Why do we always hear of very, very religious people reacting like poorly when someone with a different religion wants to date their daughter. Honestly, I’m sure it happens a lot, but it happens to people who aren’t religious, too. Most parents won’t like at least one person their child dates. But why is religion such a factor? I’m sorry, I probably sound like an ass right now, but why can’t religion just be more toned down, more suttle? Why can’t everyone just cool their junk about it (religion)? Also, why can’t people stop exploiting immature people? That’s just showing them it’s okay. It’s not. Funny? Sure. Sometimes. Appropirate? Nah.
Christ over a campfire. Way to go religion.
i keep in telling every one that jew are the most fake people i ever met and i live in brookline ma .i think the father and the mother are crazy nobody should react like this and it is not funny it`s racism
Know how you can tell the father is Jewish? At the end the first thing he asks is, “Who’s gonna PAY for the heart attack I almost had?”