Space Jews

Dan Grossman
2 min readOct 11, 2021
Photo by Shot by Cerqueira on Unsplash

Not Leonard Nimoy or William Shatner

of Star Trek fame

but the Cohens, Steins, and Goldbergs

who led the world Zionist congresses

and conspired also to control Hollywood

after 100 years colonizing Tralfamadore.

These must be the kikes Dave Chappelle

was referring to; his shtick is nothing new.

Just think of T.S. Eliot:

“The Jew is underneath the lot”

and Amiri Baraka:

“Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers to stay home”

Steven Spielberg should make a film with these poets

kissing each other’s cheeks

in flagrante delicto

but who would play them?

I’ll play my Jew card and call my friend Bleistein

in Hollywood and suggest

David Schwimmer for Baraka

and Sammy Davis Jr. for Eliot:

Let’s mix it up a bit.

I really don’t give a shit

what Sarah Silverman said about “Jewface,”

about non-Jews playing Jews.

because Sean Penn did a good Harvey Milk,

Al Pacino did a good Roy Cohn,

and Renée Zellweger did a good Sonia Horowitz.

On the other hand,

Millie Perkins as Anne Frank not so much.

Charlton Heston and Christian Bale as Moses

not so much.

Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan …

I don’t know what the fuck was going on.

Frankly.

You don’t have to be Jewish

to wear Jewish genes, but it helps

so said Gilda Radner.

But while I’ve got Bleistein on the line

I’ll propose another movie:

a no-holds-barred-drag-out fight

between Black and Jewish comics

Seinfelds and Pryors

that takes place on Moonbase Alpha

a rumble in the space jungle

refereed by Andy Kaufman

and Martin Landau in the guise

of Commander Koenig

with Don King playing himself.

Maybe there’ll be a cameo for Dave Chappelle

I’d cast him as Norman Mailer.

— Dan Grossman

See more of Dan’s work on his site indycorrespondent.org

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Dan Grossman

Currently I live in Carmel, in the Greater Indianapolis area; I am the managing editor of NUVO and a research ass't for the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute