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In his essay, "You Could Die Laughing: Are Jewish Jokes a Humorous Subject?" Joseph Epstein notes that for many years, Jewish comedians made their living by making fun of Jews, but then, in the 1960s, they started branching out and taking aim at other minorities. He then gives this example:

One night in San Francisco I heard a second-line, obviously Jewish comedian named Bobby Slayton–why did so many Jewish comics call themselves Bobby or Jackie?–say that in high school he took Spanish as his required language: “I figured the Puerto Ricans can learn it, how tough could it be?”