Khan!, the Chinese private detective, has already been canceled because he does not play chop-shtik as well as Charlie Chan used to.
While training as an Orthodox rabbi in Brooklyn, though, he used to slip up to the Catskill resorts on weekends, where he did a stand-up comic shtik using the name Jerry Herring.
Howard Kurtz in mediabistro.com (blog) I wasn't thrilled, but I just shrugged it off as Imus's insult shtik,says Kurtz, who has said that Imus helped make one of his books a best seller. "I don't believe for a second that he doesn't like Jewish people."
Al Franken in Newsweek The more people who meet me, it puts a lie to the 'He's from Hollywood!' shtik,says Franken.