Fictional Gemstone | Klopman diamond , as legendary diamonds subject of a joke

Klopman diamond is a legendary and huge diamonds associated to have a curse.

The Klopman Diamond was used as a running gag in the animated television show Garfield and Friends. The Curse of Klopman is an episode of Garfield and Friends that were originally aired on October 28, 1989.





Origin of the Klopman diamond

The Klopman diamonds was originally the subject of a joke, a typical version of which is:

A businessman boarded a plane to find, sitting next to him, an elegant woman wearing the largest, most stunning diamond ring he had ever seen.

He asked her about it. "This is the Klopman diamond," she said.

"It is beautiful, but it's like the Hope diamond; there is a terrible curse that goes with it."

"What's the curse?" the man asked. "Mr. Klopman."


The name "Klopman" was a dark humor and characterized as Yiddish in origin. The fact that it was one of Myron Cohen's standard and the commentators maintain the names and point to the fact that this joke has survived essentially for decades.

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