It's self-effacing it's hard-luck the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.
I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's...
Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public...
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.