old timers

in this film seem to stonewall the director. I thought that was very interesting. I thought it was because he was some young kid whose questions rubbed them a wrong way, but the director reveals later that he is 61, so he cannot be ignorant of how things are best presented to the generation before him.

At first I felt that they rejected the premise that they did "Jewish comedy." That this was a term of art for a comedy schtick rather than Jews who are also comedians, and that it was a weighted classification in the comedy world or in their generation. I would have liked this explained more if any of this is the case.

But then, I think it was something else. Maybe that generation didn't like blunt discussions about anything Jewish? I don't know. I wish this all would have been laid out better.

Seems like lots of missed learning and teaching opportunities and interesting convos blown off.

All in all, I think I am putting too much into this film. It is really just a vanity piece with an amorphous premise that looses a lot of potentially interesting and funny exploration. Loved the others calling the director out for this though. Maybe that is the Jewishness that is still around without an accent that Howie Mandel was talking about. I like that open, frank sort of discussion that can be had without risking ruining the social relationship. I don't think that is a goy trait or whatever the proper use of the term is.