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Bar Mitzvah Motivational Dancers
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The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
In talking-head interviews and party footage, Leonard "Gefilta Fresh" Jeffries and Marcus "Dr. Dreidel" Cunningham explain how they became Nassau County's top bar and bat mitzvah party motivators, peppering their pitch with Yiddish, dismissing rival acts and drilling each celebrant's name so the crowd can chant it. Between their high-energy routines, the Jewish parents who hire them let slip that part of the appeal is introducing their sheltered children to Black people, while the duo cheerfully admits the work is as profitable as it is spiritually rewarding.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 6
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
We are not technically chosen. We're chosen by the chosen.
Jews are like Black people, but we were Black people before there were Black people.
We motivate parties. That's what we do.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Rebecca Drysdale
Writer
Peter Atencio
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Director Peter Atencio posted the sketch on Vimeo under the title "Party Motivators," crediting Rebecca Drysdale as its writer.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
Sylvia Rosenblum
And now, we have a special treat. Hold on to your yarmulkes, okay? From east to west, you know they're the best. Getting you in the zone for your milestone. Isn't that cute? Please welcome Gavilta Fresh and Dr. Dreidel! Yeah!
- 00:22
Leonard "Gefilta Fresh" Jeffries ?
What's up, triple fattas? There are Daniel Rosenblum in the Hiz-A-S-A!
- 00:28
All right, let's celebrate, guys! All right.
- 00:37
Sylvia Rosenblum ?
When you see black people at a bar mitzvah, it's very exciting. It's like a scary ride, and the kids just love it.
- 00:43
Leonard "Gefilta Fresh" Jeffries ?
Right now, we are the number one bar slash bot mitts for potty motivators in all of Nassau County.
- 00:48
Marcus "Dr. Dreidel" Cunningham ?
I mean, you got the bot mizzles, you know, boys to men, you know, all of them coming through like a with the recycled dreck.
- 00:57
Leonard "Gefilta Fresh" Jeffries ?
And I mean, the chutzpah of these guys with their fakakta shtick. It's a real shonda on what it's supposed to be. A simka.
- 01:04
Marcus "Dr. Dreidel" Cunningham ?
Yeah. It's supposed to be a simka.
- 01:07
David Schwartzman
You just really can't put a price on the look on your child's face when they see a black person for the first time. It's just magical. Really.
- 01:19
Is he getting back up or what? We are not technically chosen. We're chosen by the chosen. Which is kind of better than being just the chosen. That's right. It's less responsibility.
- 01:29
David Schwartzman ?
Jews are like black people, but we were black people before there were black people. Although I guess that's not true. They were just in a different part of the world.
- 01:37
Oh, black people coming to get me. Help.
- 01:40
Leonard "Gefilta Fresh" Jeffries ?
We find it spiritually intoxicating. We find it culturally fascinating. And we find it monetarily exhilarating. When we say Sarah, you say Schwartzman.
- 02:01
Sarah. Sarah. Yeah. Let's go. Yeah.
- 02:05
Marcus "Dr. Dreidel" Cunningham ?
I mean, the fact that we're willing to put forth the extra time is what sets us apart.
- 02:10
Leonard "Gefilta Fresh" Jeffries ?
I mean, how often is a 13-year-old going to hear their own name?
- 02:14
Marcus "Dr. Dreidel" Cunningham ?
We learn that name. We rehearse it.
- 02:16
Go, go, go!
- 02:21
Marcus "Dr. Dreidel" Cunningham ?
Judaism can be a very somber religion. That's right. You know, something we learned along the way is that the word ghetto means something very different to these people.
- 02:32
Sylvia Rosenblum ?
To tell you the truth, I was a little nervous about the whole thing. No, not because they were black, but because you never really know what those kind of people are going to do.
- 02:41
Marcus "Dr. Dreidel" Cunningham ?
If we can add some fun, some life, some color to a Jewish person's life when they're still young.
- 02:48
Leonard "Gefilta Fresh" Jeffries ?
They might not grow up and run away from black people when they see them. Maybe they won't.
- 02:52
Marcus "Dr. Dreidel" Cunningham ?
Or fire people so willy-nilly when they're older.
- 02:59
Leonard "Gefilta Fresh" Jeffries ?
We provide a service to these people. We motivate parties. That's what we do. That's what we do. We motivate parties.
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