I always heard 'Borscht Belt in relation to comedians. >Borscht Belt - TV Tropes tvtropes.org › Tropes borscht belt comedians from tvtropes.org Jackie Mason · George Burns · Mel Brooks · Rodney Dangerfield · Don Rickles · Woody Allen · Buddy Hackett · Carl Reiner · Sid Caesar · Lenny Bruce · Mel Blanc ... -------- >The Borscht Belt, or Yiddish Alps is a colloquial term for the mostly defunct summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in parts of Sullivan, Orange, and Ulster counties in the U.S. state of New York, straddling both Upstate New York and the... Wikipedia