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Jewish Humor

When Marty Funkhouser (right, played by Bob Einstein) tells Larry David he can’t compete in the big golf tournament because it’s on Shabbat, David says, “You’re Koufaxing us?” Courtesy of HBO

The oral history of ‘Palestinian Chicken,’ Larry David’s favorite episode of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’

Louis Keene, The ForwardPublished February 4, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. One of Curb Your Enthusiasm’s most beloved episodes had been rattling around its creators’ heads for a quarter century....

Five things to know about Jon Stewart’s Jewish mother

Five things to know about Jon Stewart’s Jewish mother

Beth Harpaz, The ForwardPublished January 28, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Jon Stewart returns in February as a once-a-week host for his old late-night program, The Daily Show. Stewart, whose original...

Free advice to teens from Aunt Amy, that they didn't ask for

Free advice to teens from Aunt Amy, that they didn’t ask for

Amy Fenster Brown, Special To The Jewish LightPublished January 25, 2024

Dear Teens and Young People, You are special and wonderful and perfect just the way you are. But there are some things you need to know to be even better. Well, good news! Aunt Amy has got your back with some advice you didn’t ask for. It’s easy...

Jon Stewart to return as part-time host of ‘The Daily Show’

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished January 24, 2024

(JTA) — As the 2024 presidential election appears headed toward a Trump-Biden rematch, another familiar face is returning to help Americans keep up with — or at least joke about — the news. Jon Stewart, the iconic Jewish comedian and longtime host...

'Amusing Jews' podcast celebrates Jewish influences in American pop culture

‘Amusing Jews’ podcast celebrates Jewish influences in American pop culture

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished January 9, 2024

Who couldn't use more laughs? A podcast that is designed to do just that is called "Amusing Jews." The show celebrates Jewish contributors and their impact on American popular culture. Co-hosted by Jonathan Friedmann, an expert in the sociology of...

Brett Goldstein adds third show in St. Louis

Brett Goldstein adds third show in St. Louis

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished January 9, 2024

Comedian Brett Goldstein has added another show to his "The Second Best Night of Your Life" tour at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis. The new show will take place on Saturday, May 18, at 4:00 p.m. Due to high demand, the previously announced shows...

Jerry Seinfeld, © Matthew Sobocinski-USA TODAY NET; Joan Rivers, © Mary Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Mel Brooks (HBO)

Some of the best Jewish jokes from the best Jewish comedians

By Chanie KirschnerPublished January 1, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Jewish jokes. They’re hilarious, heartfelt and sometimes just what the doctor ordered when we need a break from the...

Funny Yiddish things my bubbe said to me

Funny Yiddish things my bubbe said to me

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished December 19, 2023

Since joining the Jewish Light, I’ve reflected on my own Jewish experience growing up, and part of that was the Yiddish my grandparents would use, particularly my maternal grandparents, whom I affectionately named Mama and Baba. Both would use Yiddish...

'Roy Kent' AKA actor Brett Goldstein to light up the Fabulous Fox in May 17

‘Roy Kent’ AKA actor Brett Goldstein to light up the Fabulous Fox in May 17

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished December 13, 2023

Jewish actor Brett Goldstein is a two-time Emmy Award winner and is best known for his scene-stealing performance as the brash yet lovable Roy Kent on the Peabody-winning Apple TV+ series, “Ted Lasso.”  But, before he broke through as the onscreen,...

Eradicate latke stink? That would be a Hanukkah miracle

Eradicate latke stink? That would be a Hanukkah miracle

Amy Fenster BrownPublished December 6, 2023

The definition of a miracle is an extraordinary event not characterized by natural or scientific law, therefore being a supernatural act of divine agency. I didn’t know God started her own agency, but I’m super proud of her.  As we light the first...

“Eretz Nehederet,” a satirical TVshow in Israel, mocked far-left American student activists in a recent English-language video. (Via YouTube)

Comedians defend Israel the best way they know how: Make ’em laugh

Amy Klein, JTAPublished November 16, 2023

(JTA) — In his viral video on social media after the Hamas attack on Israel, comedian Daniel-Ryan Spaulding riffs on the imagined reactions of an intolerably “woke” activist. “If there was a Hamas terrorist attack at a queer rave in Brooklyn...

JewCE co-creators Fabrice Sapolsky and Dr. Miriam Eve Mora pose in front of the poster of the event. (Fabrice Sapolsky)

How Jewish St. Louis comic lovers can join in this weekends JewCE festivities in NYC

Jacob Henry, JTAPublished November 10, 2023

(New York Jewish Week) —  Jews and comic books — two deeply entwined entities — will be the subject of a new pop culture event this weekend in New York, but all fans in St. Louis are invited to attend and enjoy virtually. Billed as the “ultimate...

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