The Schmooze

James Bond, The Mensch?

Image by Funny or Die

By Anne Cohen April 21, 2014

“What is that?”

“They’re guns, James.”

“I know but so many? I mean I’m one guy. How many guns does a person need?”

The opening of Funny or Die’s new video says it all: 007 goes mensch.

The comedy site’s new video offers a solution to a recent comment by Harvey Weistein deploring the amount of violence in Hollywood movies. Starring Phil Rosenthal and Patton Oswalt, the spoof shows nebbishy Bond asking for a Prius, encouraging bombshell Bond girl Ivana Havesex that she can “do anything” with her political science major and name-dropping that he and ScarJo’s dad go to the same shul.

Watch the full video below:

Jewish James Bond with Phil Rosenthal and Patton Oswalt from Phil Rosenthal

Anne Cohen was the Forward’s deputy digital media editor. When she’s not looking for the secret Jewish history of Voodoo in New Orleans, or making lists about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she writes for The Assimilator. She graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with an M.S. magazine concentration in 2012.

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