Get Yer Catskills Jokes Here! Got a Joke? Share your joke about the Catskills revitalization plan. It's not your parents" Catskills. But it's not quite yours yet, either. A group of developers has hatched a plan to revitalize and rebrand the rugged upstate resorts of the Catskills, that temple of borscht belt one-liners where your older relatives may have gotten married. The Catskill Park Resource Foundation wants to raise $5 million to return the moribund area to its kitschy glory days, complete with casinos, Zen retreats and artisanal cheeses to attract the Brooklyn set. But what do the Catskills stars of yore make of this meshugas? "Where would you go that's a hip resort up there?" scoffed Dick Capri, a Friars Club mainstay who said he performed at nearly every hotel in the area during its midcentury heyday. All the hotels are closed. It's a dry gulch. It's a ghost town. Mr. Capri recalled that the Catskills hotels were never particularly nice to begin with. "They always fixed up the lobby so it looked good when you were checking in," he said. But the dressing rooms were a horror. If a big star came into the place, they would quickly paint the dressing room. Pressed to contribute a few jokes about the redesign, Mr. Capri demurred. "It's tough to do a one-liner about a dead area," he said, a touch of resignation in his voice. You can read Peter Applebome's dispatch from Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., in The New York Times on Tuesday. And we strongly encourage readers to submit their own borscht-belt-flavored thoughts on this revitalization plan in the comments section. We'll get things started with this suggestion from an editor: Remake the Catskills? They should remake my hotel room. It's so small the mice are hunchbacked. No, we're talking small. When I put the key in, I broke the window!