Larry David wants ‘the idiots out there’ to stay home
Comedian Larry David called on “the idiots out there” to stay home and watch TV in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Festivus for the rest of us
Marc Weisblott breaks down five ways the Seinfeld legacy has lived on.
Big Mouth and the never-ending quest for sexual acceptance
Big Mouth is clever, but it’s truly unique as a link between real-world young adulthood and the kind of nebbish adult Jewish comic with whom we’ve become so familiar.
Sarcasm is the Jewish sword
Two American giants exited the literary world in May: Tom Wolfe and Philip Roth. Apart from their brilliance in mapping America’s social and cultural landscape, they could not have been more different in temperament and style. Roth’s writing was intensely personal, mordant and Jewishly obsessed; Wolfe’s was detached, exuberant and cosmopolitan. It is not by […]
Joke fell flat, but Larry David has a right to tell it
The comedian’s controversial joke on a recent episode of Saturday Night Live was an enormous roll of the dice. Unsurprisingly, he crapped out.
Your daily spiel for Friday, April 28
In today’s spiel: Interim leader of Marine Le Pen’s party booted for denying Holocaust details; Larry David’s daughter makes a (not-that-funny) Web series.
