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The Frenchman says, "I'd eat some coq au yin and make love." The American says, "I'd work as hard as I could to build the best raft I could." The Jew says, "I'd learn to live under water." "As Jews have gasped for air," Cohen said, "humor has been our life preserver, en- abling us to survive, to learn to live under water. It's been the schmaltz in our chicken soup." El `Unkosher' Comediennes T LO TURKEY BREAST. . I ARTS I hough most Jewish comedians, from Ed- die Cantor, to Woody Allen, have been men, there have also been a number of Jewish women who have made their livings being funny. Sarah Cohen devotes one of the chapters of her book, `Jewish Wry' to what she calls "the unkosher come- diennes," looking at such masters as Fanny Brice, Sophie Ricker, Ibtie Fields and Joan Rivers. Cohen calls them "un- kosher," she said in an inter- view, because "their very ap- peal violates one of the most sacred commandments for Jewish women — to be kosher. They have unclean lips, lips made dirty by be- ing corrupted, foul- mouthed. They violate the code of gentility and overstep the bounds of respectability. "They are," adds Cohen, "brazen offenders of the faith. They violate the lbrah concept of public modesty. They clamor for all the at- tention they can get. Judaism dictates that they be refined and genteel, but they say what they want to. They take the unclean words we're thinking out of our mouths and utter them." Sophie 'nicker, for exam- ple, billed herself as "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas" talking about sex and standing up for the rights of women who had been wronged. "Her songs often projected the image of a large Jewish mother in heat," said Cohen. As for Rivers, Cohen said, it's hard to say where she'll go after her husband's sui- cide, since her career up to now has been made up of several different personali- ties at different times. "She's been the female schlemiel, the inept, power- less creature begging for sympathy. She magnified the world's rejection before they could do it to her by itemizing her personal liabilities. 'Dress by Oscar de la Renta, body by Oscar Mayer.' She's been insulted and wounded and the humor was used to soothe the pain. "She's also been the yen- ta, the gossip who, like in the shtetl, named people ac- cording to their physical defects. And she's been the feminist, telling women how to profit from men and talk- ing about such things as the indiginities of the gynecolo- gist's office." Despite her success, Cohen said, Rivers still feels ugly and insecure, some- thing true of almost all Jewish comediennes. "Many of the women have poor self- images. They may not con- form to the mainstream standards of beauty, of be- ing blonde and blue-eyed. If you can't be beautiful, then be smart and smart-alecky." On the one hand, said Cohen, its Jewish life that allows girls to be smart and smart-alecky. "American Jewish parents lives' revolve around their kids. The Jewish female child is made to feel she has something important to say. So it's all right for the female child to be witty and have a loud voice. It's a way of getting attention." On the other hand, she said, it's Jewish life that limits just how smart- alecky girls can be, and so, humor is a way of getting revenge. "For women, it's a form of personal obstinancy against a Jewish world that may have excluded them because they defied Jewish tradition."