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Steinberg's sermons had already caused a stir in the entertainment world, as "the Smothers Brothers were thrown off the air for the sermon I did, just 'cause it was considered irreverent, anti-whatever. No one had ever done any humor on the Bible." For that matter, Steinberg adds, for all the many Jews working in standup comedy, few before him had been so open about their ethnic identity. "They weren't working in my style," he observes. "I don't mean to disparage them, but you had Joey Bishop, Alan King, and Buddy Hackett, who all had to, when they started out, change their names, because they couldn't even appear to have too Jewish a name. That's how tense it was to be openly Jewish. Stand-up hadn't developed into a form where Jewish comedians expressed themselves. The difference was that I was in a curious way militantly Jewish, and not sort of self-deprecating Jewish. And the other comedians didn't deal with Jewish material, even though they were Jewish themselves."
Peace.
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