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-Oy vei! (Yiddish: אױ װײ) is an exclamation of dismay or exasperation meaning "woe is me" or "oh, no". This exclamation was borrowed from Yiddish. A related exclamation is "vey iz mir" (װײ'ז מיר)—"woe is me" or "oy very iz mir" (Yiddish: אױ װײ'ז מיר). Sometimes, Oy is just used by itself.
-It is related to the expression "Oy gevalt" (Yiddsh: אױ גװאַלד oy gvald).
-In New York City, it was used on a sign on the Williamsburg Bridge which read "Leaving Brooklyn: Oy vey!"
-In 1992, the band Tin Machine released a live album entitled Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby, a joke on U2's Achtung, Baby.
-In The Simpsons episode "Like Father, Like Clown," Krusty's father, Rabbi Hyman Krustofski, cries out "Oy vey iz mir!" when his son's identity is revealed at a comedy club.
-There was a Jewish parody of James Bond, who was called "Oy Oy Seven".
-In Leo Rosten's The Joys of Yiddish, he says that a woman in labor who is crying "Oy!" is not yet ready for the doctor. Once she yells "Gevalt!" then it's time.
-In Madagascar, Gloria the hippo mutters it during a conversation with King Julien of the Lemurs.
-In "What Women Want," when Mel Gibson's character is in his marital counselor's (Bette Midler) office and he hears what she thinks, she thinks "Oy Vei." He then says, "You can say that again."