The 37th Annual Jewfro Pride Awards
Last night I watched the prestigious 37th Annual Jewfro Pride awards on an exclusive webcast hosted by jewfaq.org. It was a star studded gala. Anyone who was anyone sporting a jewfro was in attendance. Garry Shandling served as the MC. The event, as always, also served as a fund raiser for the Children of Jewish Mothers Psychoanalytic Fund. A worthy cause if there ever was one.
The highlights are too enumerable to recount, and I would feel more guilt ridden than usual if I omit anyone, so I’ll just jump right ahead to the evening’s winners of the prestigious Intrepid Gabe Kaplan trophy.
Click here for the results!
Best Acquitted Wall of Jewfro:
Phil Spector
Best Fluffy White Cloud Jewfro:
Bob Ross
Best Simon and Garfunkel Jewfro:
Garfunkel
Best Emasculated Jewfro:
TIE: Babs and Richard Simmons
Best Dylan Jewfro:
1981 Shot of Love European Tour
Most Sued Jewfro:
Sacha Baron Cohen
Best Jewfro: Gentile Division/Pop Duo or Group
John Oates
Best Sephardic Jewfro:
Oscar Gamble
Best Jewfro in a Comedic Trio:
Larry Fein
Funniest Contemporary Jewfro:
Seth Rogen
Least Humorous Jewfro:
Paul Reiser (22 years running)
Best Reality Show Jewfro:
Gene Simmons
Most Racist Jewfro:
Michael Richards
Best Gentile Jewfro in Sports:
Don Sutton
Best Jewfro in Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers:
Howie Epstein
Best Who Let This Jewfro Past Security?
Avery Schreiber
Most Creative Jewfro:
Larry David
Best Crime Fighting Jewfro
The Hebrew Hammer
Best Do These Pants Make My Ass Look Fat Jewfro:
Garry Shandling
Best Blogging Jewfro:
Herban Elizabeth Urban
Best Ben Stiller Jewfro:
TIE: Starsky & Hutch/The Royal Tenenbaums
Lifetime Jewfro Achievement Award:
The Cast of Welcome Back Kotter
Everyone is a winner when you wear your Jewfro with pride!
This is friggin’ fabulous!!
How incredibly hysterical…
:) 
Just wonderful Herb!
i love you … you are a sick fuck,, but you gotta love it!!!!!
Rob: Thanks, my friend.
Paisley: Thanks, my friend.
How do you do it?
I wish I had just 1 percent of your talent.
Rock on my dear.
ok - a new category is way overdue. “best gentile jewfro worn by girl with questionable sanity (among other requirements for day to day survival)” - I am digging out the picture of myself back in the day to be included in next year’s consideration. It will be up this weekend- I want my moment in the jewfro limelight -
Oh, how I wish I had a picture for you of all the camp counselors from the Jewish camp I went to back in the 1970’s!
Hysterical Herb … Go the Fro, I had a red one in the 70s … yikes!
This is hilarous, oh lord, the final trophy pic is cracking me up, thanks so much.
Oh so, so riproaringly good……..I am a HUGE Larry David fan……the guy is a genius, pure and simple; your wits are similar!
on a more somber note… your post on ss was breathtaking… the simple ability to find the good in anything… i believe in your case was genetic… what a loving tribute to the familial ties that bind….
Oh lord, that was hilarious!
And on a serious note, thank you for sharing of yourself in the SS comments. Those can’t be easy memories.
Is your middle name really Elizabeth? Was Phil Spector going for an insanity plea? The only wild do I can think of that you left out is Don King, but he’s probably not Jewish.
I loved this!
Frances: You are much too kind! I wish I could take photos that vaguely resembled anything like the ones you take. Your stories around NYC are priceless. I’m just a fool with free time on my hands
But thanks for your generous words.
Kimberley: Please post that picture! I’ll create a new Jewfro category next year just for my readers.
sister AE: That is funny. The 70’s were the golden age of Jewfros. Any fros really.
Redness: Oh my god! I must see a picture of that! I dare you!
UL: Thanks! I wonder if I could get a real trophy made using actual hair.
Jo: Any comparison to LD humbles me. He is one of my comedy heroes, along with George Carlin and Lenny Bruce.
Paisley: Very nice of you to say. I’m sure I got my silly side from him. Thank you for those words.
Robin: Thank you. I appreciate that.
Colleen: My wife’s middle name was Elizabeth, which she always hated. I was born without one, so when we got married she kept her maiden name was her middle name and I took Elizabeth as mine. I’m cool like that
Don King is definitely not a member of my tribe.
Is the awards ceremony available on DVD? ‘Cause I’d like to order a copy.
Patois: I could probably throw something together with stick puppets and a cam corder, if I have enough steel wool and cotton balls for the jewfros.
I sorely needed this! Thanks!
Hilarious! The first person I thought of as I was reading your “definition” was Gabe Kaplan! I loved all of your “winners.” Kudos to including your own image.
Where’s Carrot Top? He looks like Barbara Streisand in her best Jewfro role: “A Star is Born”.
you and i share the same middle name….elizabeth!!!
Gautami: Anytime. My hair is always here for your amusement.
Raymond: Is Carrot Top Jewish? Is is bad enough we are burdened with Barbara. Carrot Top too? Haven’t my people suffered enough?
Jennifer: Small world. But how many people do you know named Herban?
Can we talk about Don King?
Don King: Not a Jew.
Hell Herb, WHAT has this got to do with Sunday Scribblings?
Unless I have to go to the “hospital” because I’m laughing too hard.
I made a wise choice favoriting you on Technorati. Now the other folks need to wise up!
No, I don’t think Carrot Top is a Jew. I thought he might slip in somewhere in the space created by Oscar Gamble…but maybe you know something I don’t: is Oscar Gamble a Jew?
No, sadly Oscar Gamble is not Jewish. Other than Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg, the list of Jewish ball players is rather sad. I have high hope for Ryan Braun however. Ok, I”ll make room for Carrot Top at next year’s cedar.
But all their agents are Jews, that should account for something. This great blog reminds me of a scene from the histerical movie “Knocked Up”.
Alison Scott: I love your curly hair! It’s great… do you use product or anything?
Ben Stone: No… I use, uh, jew it’s called
Point taken on the agents. It is funny you mention Knocked Up. When I was 13, I tried in vain to comb “The Jew” out of my jewfro hair. There was a British wrestler I used to watch on TV who had a classic 80’s mullet. “Gentleman” Chris Adams was his name. One day, I locked myself in the bathroom with a comb and brush and attempted to sculpt a mullet out of my curly hair. Guess the grass is always greener. I have since learned embrace my Jewish hair and reject mullets.
If Herbsylvania is truly in Idaho, I am certain you are the only person in that state that could pick a dradle out of a line-up. I grew up in Idaho and the synagogs are few and far between. By the way for a laugh do a search on Google for synagog. It says do you mean snagajob?
That’s probably because it’s actually spelled “synagogue” in English.
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