In case you wondered …

… Joy veh | David Baddiel on the history of Jewish comedy. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

To come back, then, to what appeared to be a passing, but was not, point about the afterlife: Christianity, and most other religions, are all in the clouds, in the great hereafter – Judaism tends to concentrate on the here and now, and indeed its rules. But in minutiae, there is humanity: it is in reaching after the grandiose things in life that civilization gets skewed. To be microscopic, comically, is to create engagement: these people, the joke says, are like you, because like you, they sweat the small stuff. 

I guess Don Adams makes it, because his father was Jewish, But he was raised in his mother's Catholic faith and had a Catholic funeral.