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(informal) a resort area in the Catskill Mountains of New York that was patronized primarily by Jewish guests
many comedians learned their trade playing the borscht circuit
How To Use borscht belt In A Sentence
- Here, too, it resembles "The Producers," which was a last-gasp homage to the anything-for-a-laugh Borscht Belt schtickery on which the stand-up comedy of my childhood was based, with four-letter words sprinkled on top to give it a factitiously up-to-date air. The Re-'Producers'
- He may be the last link to the old Borscht Belt comedians, the old Vegas, the old nightclubs and stage shows, the real swank days of lounge culture.
- Son of the Beach falls just short of being a classic along the lines of a ZAZ Brothers creation or the glorious past parodies of Mel Brooks Borscht Belt burlesques.
- Grossinger's, the resort many considered the gem of the Borscht Belt and the premier mountain destination, is now abandoned, moss and plants growing through carpets, over pools, and around doorways that were once teeming with children. Annemarie Dooling: Mountain Resorts of the Past Earning a Second Life
