Showing posts with label Jewish Comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish Comedy. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

A Seven Week Online Series "Is Anything Okay? The History of Jewish Comedy in America" Launches on Thursday

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From the earliest jokes told on the Lower East Side to the comedy routines honed in the Catskills, Ashkenazi Jews developed radically new ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

3 Livestream Jewish Comedy Programs for Christmas Eve - Order Kosher Chinese Takeout and You're All Set

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The clouds of coronavirus lockdowns, isolations, and quarantines this year have revealed a silver lining -- the annual Christmas eve Jewish ...
Sunday, March 1, 2020

Old Time Yiddish Comedy with Henrietta Jacobson and Julius Adler

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Henrietta Jacobson was one of the most venerable actresses and comedians of the Yiddish theater, which flourished on the Lower East Side...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Origins of Jewish Comedy Explored on PBS by Professor Jeremy Dauber

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In a TV interview on the PBS show Metro Focus , host Jack Ford has a conversation with Jeremy Dauber, Columbia professor and author of th...
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Sunday, May 5, 2019

Jewish Comedy from Australia: Meet Rabbi Mendel Goornisht at the Melbourne Jewish Comedy Festival

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Jewish Humor Central has subscribers all over the world, and Australia always places in the top ten countries. We haven't given mu...
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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Funniest Jewish Film Moments (A Tu B'Shvat Treat): The Tree Planting Scene from Sallah Shabati

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One of the funniest films to come out of Israel is Sallah Shabati סאלח שבתי) ) It's a 1964 comedy about the chaos of Israeli immi...
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Thursday, November 19, 2015

Comedy Showcase: The Liberal Jewish Political Comedy of Scott Blakeman

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  Scott Blakeman is a stand-up comic who specializes in Jewish liberal political comedy. Scott is an original member of Laughing Libera...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

"The Jury" - A Classic Comedy Gem From Our Favorite Record Album

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Of all the comedy albums produced in the era of LP records, our favorite has always been You Don't Have to be Jewish . The album is a...
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Thursday, May 7, 2015

Comedy Flashback: Jackie Mason on Smothers Brothers TV Show

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Jackie Mason has been featured on Jewish Humor Central many times over the years and we always get a lot of likes whenever we post some o...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Comedy Flashback: Early Jerry Seinfeld Stand-Up on Why People Have Pets

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Before Jerry Seinfeld scored big with his long-running TV series Seinfeld , he was a regular on the New York stand-up comedy circuit. I...
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Sunday, January 18, 2015

The New Comedians: Meet Ronn Blitzer, Jewish Week Comedy Contest Winner

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Ronn Blitzer was the winner of The Jewish Week competition for Funniest Comedian in New York in June 2013.  Two months later, at the pr...
Friday, November 21, 2014

Remembering Mike Nichols: First of a Series - The $65 Funeral

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Mike Nichols, film, theatre and television director, producer and comedian, died yesterday at the age of 83. He is mostly being remember...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Hasidic Comedian Yisrael (formerly Christopher) Campbell on Why He Was Circumcised Three Times

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Back in October 2009 when we started blogging at Jewish Humor Central, one of our first posts was about Christopher Campbell, a former C...
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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Comedy Showcase: Meet Marion Oxenhorn, America's Funniest Grandma

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Marion Oxenhorn , a mother and grandmother from Morris County, New Jersey, pursued her dream of becoming a stand-up comedian after she...
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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Comedy Showcase Flashback: Stand-up With Gabe Kaplan (1976)

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If you're old enough to remember the TV series Welcome Back, Kotter , which ran from 1975 to 1979, you're old enough to remember ...
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Thursday, August 14, 2014

Comedy Showcase: Modi Rosenfeld at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal

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Modi Rosenfeld is one of our favorite young comedians and we've posted many of his stand-up comedy routines and skits.  Last year h...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Legendary Comedian Milton Berle Reflects on Jewish Humor

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Legendary comedian Milton Berle (1908-2002) was known as Mr. Television, Uncle Milty, and was widely acclaimed as the first television su...
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Monday, August 11, 2014

A Joke to Start the Week - "A Hole in One"

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Another Monday, another Joke to Start the Week. Today's joke comes from the project "When Jews Were Funny," which became a ...
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Sunday, August 3, 2014

Billy Eichner and Rashida Jones Play "Whistle Blow that Jew" on New York Street

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Billy on the Street is a comedy game show on the Fuse TV television network, hosted by Billy Eichner, an American Jewish comedian, where...
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Monday, June 30, 2014

"High Powered Howard" Wins Jewish Week's Funniest Comedian Contest

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(Left to right) Third place winner Saul Daiell, second place winner Miriam Borenstein, Producer Geoff Kole, and first place winner ...