Jackie Mason’s daughter among standups at Jewish comedy fest
“I am the daughter of the ultimate Jew. It’s my pedigree, so for a Jewish comedy festival – I’m there.”
Gad Elmaleh: comedian graces top American stages
The best-known comedian in France and the Francophonie will perform at Carnegie Hall on Feb. 11, 2017, performing on the same stage previously graced by many musical and artistic legends
Finally, The Producers in both English AND Yiddish
If Cecil B. De Mille could have made an epic satire, The Producers, which played at the Segal Centre until July 10, would have been it
Let’s face it: Jerry Seinfeld is irrelevant
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is stuck in a weird middle ground, writes Michael Fraiman
Comic reinvents herself as jazz singer
Marla Lukofsky blazed the trail for women in the male-dominated field of standup comedy and now she’s reinvented herself as a serious jazz singer
Anti-Semitic trolls attack comedian over Child’s First Book of Trump
“I never experienced anti-Semitism until speaking out against Trump,” says Michael Ian Black, author of A Child’s First Book of Trump
Stephen Colbert uses swastika to mock Trump’s response to Orlando
America, 2016. Where a comedian mocks a major party’s presumptive presidential nominee by drawing a large Nazi symbol on television, and no one is really surprised
Une entrevue avec l’inégalable Gad Elmaleh
Le grand rêve américain de Gad Elmaleh bat son plein
After 5-year hiatus, Curb Your Enthusiasm to return with 9th season
“In the immortal words of Julius Caesar, ‘I left, I did nothing, I returned,’” says Larry David of his return to HBO
East Coast vs. West Coast: the great Jewish rivalry continues
For us Hosers, it’s West Coast vs. East Coast, with each coast bringing its own strengths and weaknesses
