CNN Anchor Jake Tapper Talks About Passover and a One Man Seder in Ukraine

In a recent interview with Stephen Colbert, CNN anchor Jake Tapper reminisced about his trip to Ukraine where he interviewed president Vlodomyr Zelenskyy and gave him a box of matzot for Passover.

Tapper explained that it was the first time he didn't have a seder for Passover, but the local Chabad rabbi gave him the seder essentials in a box so he could have a one-man seder in Ukraine.

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Late Show's Stephen Colbert Adds Hanukkah Movies to Hallmark and Lifetime Holiday List

Every December The Hallmark Channel and Lifetime Channel release a deluge of Christmas-themed movies. This year a total of 146 cheesy made-for-TV movies will be broadcast and zero Hanukkah movies. Stephen Colbert, host of The Late Show, thinks this is a shonda.

So on his TV show last week he said that everyone deserves bad holiday movies. He showed the trailers of some upcoming Hanukkah movies, including A Whole Latke Love, Fried Food Frenzy, Home for the Challah-days, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rabbi. Enjoy the trailers, but don't look for the full movies on your TV.

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Comedy Showcase: French Moroccan Jewish Comedian Gad Elmaleh on English Expressions

Gad Elmaleh is a Jewish Moroccan-born French stand-up comedian and actor. He has starred in several feature films, including Coco, Priceless, La Doublure and Midnight in Paris.
 
He has been voted the funniest person in France and was named knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Minister of Culture. He was also named knight of the National Order of Quebec.
He is often referred to as the "Seinfeld of France". In 2015, Elmaleh did a national comedy tour across the United States. His new comedy special American Dream is now available on Netflix.

In this video clip from the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Gad talks about Indian taxi drivers, the hypocrisy of encore performances, and dating language difficulties.

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Mayim Bialik Explains the Difference Between Nerd and Geek

Do you know the difference between a nerd and a geek? Did you think they were synonyms or do they mean different things?

In 2017, when Big Bang Theory actress Mayim Bialik was on a book tour promoting her book Girling Up, she was a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

The interview covered a range of topics but zeroed in on Colbert's pressing the neuroscientist actress on the difference between the terms nerd and geek. Watch the video below and you'll become an expert on the proper use of the two terms.

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60 Years Later, Violinist Itzhak Perlman Returns to the Ed Sullivan Theatre

This week famed violinist Itzhak Perlman returned to the same stage he graced sixty years earlier when he performed on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' as a 13-year-old child prodigy.

In an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, we see a black-and-white clip with Sullivan introducing him as Isaac Perlman.

In part two of the interview, Perlman combines 'Caprice in A Minor' and 'Someone to Watch Over Me' with piano accompaniment from Jon Batiste.

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House Speaker Paul Ryan Discovers His Jewish Roots; Stephen Colbert Offers Him Bris

While participating in the taping of an upcoming episode of the PBS show Finding Your Roots, House Speaker Paul Ryan found out that genetic testing confirmed that he is 3% Jewish.

As CNN reported,

The show's host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., shared the Wisconsin Republican's reaction to discovering his roots during a panel on Tuesday.

"You could have knocked him over with a feather and then he was very proud of it," Gates, who also serves as an executive producer on the show, said during the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles. 

A publicist for the show confirmed Gates' comments during the panel, and Ryan's upcoming appearance on the show, in an email to CNN.

"We don't know who that Jewish person was, but we know it was on his mother's German line, which makes sense," Gates continued. "So somebody who was a Christian German slept with a Jewish German person and that's where that came from."

In a tweet on Wednesday, Ryan, who is Catholic, seemingly hinted at finding out about his roots.

 "Guess I need to start saying 'L'Chaim' now, too!" he tweeted, attaching a GIF of himself holding up a drink. He did not reference the show itself in the social media post.

Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert rushed in to offer Ryan a "Bris-Stravaganza" with mohels standing by. Here's the Colbert video clip. Enjoy!

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Comedy Showcase: Jerry Seinfeld on Donut Holes, Buffets, and TV Dinners

In January 2016 Jerry Seinfeld dropped in on The Late Night Show with Steven Colbert for a comedy set on America's weight problem.

In the 7-minute set, he expounds on the logic of selling donut holes vs. donut plugs, and the marketing strategy behind restaurant buffets and TV dinners.

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Comedy Showcase: Jerry Seinfeld on Donut Holes, Buffets, and TV Dinners

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld dropped in to the Stephen Colbert show earlier this year to show that he hasn't lost his touch with standup comedy. 

After years of being associated with his Seinfeld TV sitcom series, he picked up the microphone and carried on for seven minutes on food and weight related topics, with funny observations on the state of the nation's girth, donut holes, buffets, and TV dinners.

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"Fiddler on the Roof" Cast Crashes The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York City, where The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is taped, is just across the street from the Broadway Theatre, where the new version of Fiddler on the Roof is performed every day.

Both shows start around the same time and long lines form every evening around Broadway and 53rd Street. That coincidence provides the setup for a funny skit involving a Jewish family from Kansas that winds up in Colbert's audience instead of in the Fiddler audience.

What follows is sheer fun and hilarity. Enjoy!

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