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I always thought Goldberg was a classic Jewish name so is Whoopie Goldberg her real name?

Question #81746. Asked by billythebrit.

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Her real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson.

Her stage name was taken from "whoopie cushion", which she initially wanted as her name, but chose the last moniker of Goldberg after her mother pointed out that her initial name pick was not Jewish enough to make her rich. According to a 2006 interview, she stated that, "If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.' And that's where the name came from."[5] Her name has also been used in reference to a beauty treatment offered in some new age spas. "Getting the Goldberg" involves an entirely kosher procedure in which the eyebrows are completely removed, and the face is gently buffed with a thin layer of wax.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg

Jun 10 2007, 10:11 AM
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By the way, Goldberg is not always a Jewish name. (Certainly Johann S. Bach didn't write his most famous set of variations for anywone Jewish.)

Jun 10 2007, 2:26 PM
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