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2025-07-08

Neil Rubinstein

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Watch Neil Rubinstein's Kill Tony episode 726 set with a timestamped video, full transcript, and line-by-line joke breakdown. This set has 3 bits, 5 joke beats, 0.47 punch density, 0.80 tag density.

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This set·3 bits·5 beats·0.47 punch density·0.80 tag density

Yeah, hi, hi everybody.

[Bit 1]

Yeah, I'm Neil Rubinstein.

People miss pronounce it all the time too.

Rubenstein, Rubenstein, Goldberg.

[Bit 2]

I'm named after my grandfather, Norman Rubenstein,

but I know that wasn't his name, you know,

'cause he came over from Poland in the 1930s.

So his name was like a bunch of C's and Z's.

No vowels.

Inside out K for some reason.

And just the immigration guys couldn't read it.

They're like, what are you showing me?

A wifi password?

What's that?

Like we're giving out a lot of Normans today.

You're gonna be Norman from now on.

He said, "My last name's John. Norman Rubinstein."

You guys made me nervous. Holy shit.

We're giving out a lot of Norman say.

He'll be Norman from now on. Norman Rubinstein.

He said, "My last name's Jones."

Like, "Not anymore Jew."

And they just shoved them back down the stairs.

That's how it was for us.

[Bit 3]

Never been a good time in history for the Jews.

No one's been like, "Oh, you're Jewish? Right this way."

Well, once.

Stepped on the well once, but...

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setupYeah, I'm Neil Rubinstein.

setupPeople miss pronounce it all the time too.

punchlineRubenstein, Rubenstein, Goldberg.