jewcy.com — Why Anti-Semitic Elmo is Creepier-and Less Funny-Than We Had Thought By Jacob Silverman / June 28, 2012 What began as the kind of "weird and funny, but a tad disturbing" story endemic to New York has skewed irrevocably toward the latter. Anti-Semitic Elmo is, as one might have guessed, a troubled (and possibly mentally ill) man.