Monroe Silver (December 21, 1875 – May 3, 1947) was an American actor and singer who was also a comedian and monologist using a Jewish dialect-accent in his performances.

[1] Lee De Forest recorded Silver doing "Cohen on the Telephone" for the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.

From 1925 to 1935, Silver appeared on The Goodrich Silvertown Orchestra radio show.

Some performers like Barney Bernard and Louis Mann tried to imitate him in the early 1920s, while Silver himself adapted the monologues of British vaudevillian Joe Hayman and others.

[4] Silver made many recordings with Billy Murray, as an Irish and Jewish dialect combo "Casey and Cohen".