I heard him on an interview he had pretty recently explain that the Yiddish comes from his grandparents, but he's aware it's significantly different from yeshivish or chassidishe, Ultra-Orthodox Yiddish. And of course, it takes a real chassidishe person messing up English to know how to mess up English like a chassidishe person.
I heard him on an interview he had pretty recently explain that the Yiddish comes from his grandparents, but he's aware it's significantly different from yeshivish or chassidishe, Ultra-Orthodox Yiddish. And of course, it takes a real chassidishe person messing up English to know how to mess up English like a chassidishe person.
I don't think he meant the accent. I don't think it's likely his grandparents had an American Yiddish accent, since they were probably from Europe. He's copying American Yiddish, but he's just not keeping the accent consistent. For example, it's either shmitzig and kigel or shmutzig and kugel, but he used shmitzig and kugel.