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Mr. Lorayne would hear the names of hundreds of audience members and then rattle them off — “Mr. Stinson, Miss Graf, Mrs. Graf, Miss Finkelstein” — in his rapid-fire New Yorkese.

“Mr. Stinson,” he continued in his rapid-fire New Yorkese, gathering speed.

So over the years it’s become customary to sub in the vague New Yorkese that Hollywood uses as a universal signifier for white working class.

And he speaks only the language of New Yorkese circa the 1980s.

There’s also the pleasure of hearing the Hebrew and Yiddish phrases — more than I thought I would recognize — that have made their way into contemporary New Yorkese: mazel tov, babke, kishkes.