Schtick
Doug is first and foremost a comedian. He peppers his
performance with appropriate and tasteful Jewish jokes.
When he was a toddler, his mother began bringing home
Mickey Katz records. For those of you who are too young to
remember, Mickey Katz (father of Joel Grey) was an extremely
talented Catskills performer who took popular American songs
and "Yiddishized" them. So, in the 1950s, the Ballad of Davy
Crockett became the Ballad of "Duvid" Crockett. And Tenessee
Ernie Ford's woeful refrain in Sixteen Tons of "I owe my soul
to the company store" became "I owe my neshuma to the delicatessen in Mickey Katz' rendition. Doug performs both of these inhilarious homage to Mickey Katz.
He also takes the audience on side trips to classic Delancey
Street, engages everyone in a trip to a Kosher Delicatessen wherethe audience is encouraged to build the perfect deli sandwich followed by a rousing rendition of Roumania,Roumania.