Taking into account the relative tininess of the Jewish population, there's a disproportionate number of Jews who go into comedy. My analysis can explain that fact. That's all.
Can you show that there's the slightest logical or literary connection between Islam and the comedy of secularized Muslims?
Monty Python's humour is hardly based in Christianity. They were satirizing Christianity from a secular, historical-critical perspective. By contrast, Jewish humour is based in their experience of being downtrodden outsiders, which is codified in their very scriptures.
I said nothing whatsoever about "inherent superiority" or about a "racial" predilection for humour. Those are strawmen. I'm talking about the humour in Jewish scriptures that was caused by Jewish history. Anyone who identifies with that Jewish culture will necessarily be steeped in a humorous perspective on religion. Mostly, Jews are, of course, but Jewish humour can rub off on anyone, so there's no racial component, just a cultural one. (See my recent article on the shibboleth of "racism").
Yes, the Tanakh is bursting with totalitarian wish fulfillment that was slipped in with hindsight. As I say in the article, monotheism is implicitly totalitarian. So Jews aren't superhuman saints. They wrestled with the implications of monotheism from the perspective of the oppressed. They imagined that their ancestors must have kicked ass in God's name, but those were later fantasies of the Jewish priests who were taken with the might of the Persian empire.
What shines through the Jewish scriptures, though, is the undercutting of that monotheistic lust for apocalyptic tyranny. Jews present the dystopian longings only to implicitly satirize them, by showing how God is saddled with bungling chosen ones.
As Jack Miles shows in God: A Biography, the humanization of God's character already mocks the mystical identification of God with the absolute. Monotheism comes across as preposterous when God is presented as an all-too human character. But monotheists had to humanize God because their idea of God combined the traits of the gods from the pantheon, leading to all kinds of contradictions that made for the realistic, flawed character of Yahweh. And when you get to Job and Ecclesiastes, the punchline becomes crystal clear.
As for modern Israel, that was a political project of Zionism that dealt with the fact that Jews were almost wiped out in WWII. Israel is surrounded by enemies, so the satirical nature of their religion takes a backseat to the politics of Israel.
Throwing around the word "bigot," by the way, looks to me like an overcompensation. Incidentally, I'm Jewish in the cultural sense. I went to synagogue for the high holidays, I went to Hebrew school, and I had a bar mitzvah.
Are you supposed to be some kind of philosopher? You don't sound like it in these comments, since they're consistently uncharitable. Why not try steelmanning arguments you disagree with, for the sake of improving the dialogue?
