{"id":810,"date":"2007-01-29T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/01\/rabbi-walks-into-bar.html"},"modified":"2007-01-29T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T09:52:00","slug":"rabbi-walks-into-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/01\/rabbi-walks-into-bar.html","title":{"rendered":"A Rabbi Walks Into a Bar…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally saw “The Aristocrats<\/a>” this weekend, and will refrain from adding–at this late date–to the reams of commentary <\/a>on this documentary about the telling and retelling of a single, legendary, vile joke by professional comedians. In a completely unrelated aside, however, Robin Williams did offer this gem, which may be old news for lots of people, but I’d never heard it:<\/p>\n

A rabbi walks into a bar with a frog on his shoulder. The bartender says, “Where’d you get that?” The frog answers, “Brooklyn. There are hundreds of them there.”<\/p>\n

Brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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