This is a little long — eleven minutes — but some of you may enjoy it.
One of my favorite entertainers, a gentleman named Bruce Adler, passed away earlier this year. Mr. Adler was a star of musical theater but when he wasn't doing that, he kept the Catskills tradition alive. He toured, mainly around New York and Florida, playing to predominantly Jewish audiences with an act that was one part Grossinger's and two parts Yiddish Music Hall. He sang, danced and told Jew jokes and, yeah, it was mostly ancient material but boy, did he know how to work an audience.
When he died, I regretted that I didn't have a video link I could provide to show him in that part of his career. Well, now I do. Here's Bruce Adler doing the kind of act you would have seen if you'd gone to one of those famous resort hotels that formed part of the Borscht Belt…