COMEDY: BIG BOOK OF JEWISH CONSPIRACIES

Conspiracy theory
According to "The Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies," no. Jews were responsible for the Renaissance, the French Revolution, inciting World War I and assassinating JFK, let alone foisting on mankind the counterintuitive peculiarity of buying bottled water -- back in the plague infested Europe of the 1300s. Jews were of course behind the Crusades, the Great Depression, the sexual revolution, introducing malt liquor -- and violence -- into Harlem, and ending pro baseball's reserve clause which led to sky high priced concessions. But less well known is that it was a Jew, Guillermo de la Nussbaum, who, quite by accident, discovered America, and that it was a Jew, Moritz Gelbfisch, who outfitted the Klan. To the most dimwitted reader, it might be too late to point out that the book is a work of satirical fiction.

What The Daily Show with Jon Stewart's America, the Book is to a seventh grade American history book, The Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies is to Grayzel's History of the Jews. The authors, knowledgeable, witty and pop-culturally savvy, employ every comic device to laugh at those who believe such numbskullery.