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Jewish Humor

Was Carol Channing Jewish?

Was Carol Channing Jewish?

Published August 22, 2021

It’s a right of Jewish passage to wonder who out there in the world is Jewish too, especially famous people like actors, singers, athletes, and even social media stars and YouTubers. It’s just something we do. So, to better answer the question...

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Is James Franco Jewish?

Published August 20, 2021

It’s a right of Jewish passage to wonder who out there in the world is Jewish too, especially famous people like actors, singers, athletes, and even social media stars and YouTubers. It’s just something we do. So, to better answer the question...

Not even aliens can shake up a clan of New York Jews in ‘The Magnificent Meyersons’

Not even aliens can shake up a clan of New York Jews in ‘The Magnificent Meyersons’

Published August 20, 2021

(JTA) — How did aliens find their way into a nice Jewish dramedy? It’s hard to say for sure how extraterrestrials factor into “The Magnificent Meyersons,” a new independent film written and directed by Evan Oppenheimer. Even for those who watch...

Larry David reportedly yelled at Alan Dershowitz over his ties to Trump and Republicans

Larry David reportedly yelled at Alan Dershowitz over his ties to Trump and Republicans

Published August 20, 2021

(JTA) — Alan Dershowitz’s Martha’s Vineyard vacations are still prettay, prettay uncomfortable. Larry David “screamed” at the prominent legal commentator at a popular convenience store on the island, the New York Post reported...

Great moments in Jewish comic history: Andy Kaufmann with Johnny Carson in 1977

Great moments in Jewish comic history: Andy Kaufmann with Johnny Carson in 1977

Published August 19, 2021

Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman was born in New York and grew up in suburban Long Island. He graduated in 1971 from the now-defunct Grahm Junior College in Boston, where he studied television. Kaufman lived in a hazy borderland between comedy and performance...

Here’s your Jewish joke of the week

Here’s your Jewish joke of the week

Published August 19, 2021

From Groucho Marx to the Borscht Belt to Sarah Silverman, many of America’s best-known comedians have been Jewish. And so important is humor to Jewish culture that a landmark study on American Jewish identity in 2013 found that 42 percent of American...

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Behind the scenes of that ‘Dave’ Bar Mitzvah episode

Lindsey Rabinowitz, HeyAlma.comPublished August 13, 2021
The hora scene included a whole lot of hand sanitizer.
Do you know this Jew? He's the porky hockey hero you’ve never heard of

Do you know this Jew? He’s the porky hockey hero you’ve never heard of

Irv Osterer, ForwardPublished August 13, 2021

This article originally appeared at forward.com. Reposted with permission. When the 2021-22 National Hockey League season opens this October, the Seattle Kraken will be the first professional Emerald City team since the Totems folded in 1975. But,...

Why I can't wait for Mel Brooks' new memoir

Why I can’t wait for Mel Brooks’ new memoir

Jordan PalmerPublished August 13, 2021

“I hope fans of comedy will get a kick out of the stories behind my work, and really enjoy taking this remarkable ride with me.”—Mel Brooks I'm a fan, and I can't wait to take this ride with you Mel. I believe the reason it took Brooks 95-years...

Marc Maron stars in the new Aretha Franklin biopic "Respect." Courtesy: MGM

How Marc Maron became the entertainment industry’s (not-so) secret weapon

DAN BUFFA, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished August 12, 2021

If Marc Maron is in the movie, the experience can't be all bad. But with this entertainer, pretty much anywhere he shows up, good times will follow. He's versatile like good pizza dough; no matter how you stretch it or bake it, the taste is there. That...

Los Angeles loses a century-old Jewish deli as Greenblatt’s shutters permanently

Los Angeles loses a century-old Jewish deli as Greenblatt’s shutters permanently

Published August 12, 2021

(JTA) — Los Angeles’ Greenblatt’s Deli and Fine Wine Shop shuttered abruptly on Wednesday, ending nearly a century-long run for a fixture of Jewish food on Sunset Boulevard. Opened in 1926 and run by a single family since the 1940s, Greenblatt’s...

Here’s your Jewish joke of the week

Here’s your Jewish joke of the week

Published August 11, 2021

From Groucho Marx and the Borscht Belt to Sarah Silverman, many of America’s best-known comedians have been Jewish. And so important is humor to Jewish culture that a landmark study on American Jewish identity in 2013 found that 42 percent of American...

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