The biggest laugh was Marat Balagula. "Marat" is not a common Jewish surname. "Balagula" stems from a Hebrew phrase--"B'al Agula" or "master of the wheel," a carter, which was a respectable trade in Biblical times. But, in Eastern European slang it became "balagula"--an uncouth person, specifically a gangster or thug. That's how "Marat the Gangster" got into the US as a "Jewish refugee."