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Comedy

From left: Rich Rumelt, the board president of The Workers Circle; Ann Toback, the group's executive director; Seth Rogen; and Mark Rogen at the organization's ceremony in New York City, Dec. 2, 2019. (JTA/Mark Stephen Kornbluth)
Posted inTV & Film

Seth Rogen and father honored for contributions to Jewish and Yiddish culture

by JTA December 3, 2019December 3, 2019
Louis C.K. performs at The New York Comedy Festival at The Theater at Madison Square Garden, Nov. 1, 2016. (JTA/Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Bob Woodruff Foundation)
Posted inComedy

Louis C.K. jokes in Israel: I’d rather be in Auschwitz than New York City

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA December 2, 2019December 2, 2019
Sacha Baron Cohen speaks at the Anti-Defamation League's Never Is Now conference in New York, Nov. 21, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Jennifer Liseo-ADL)
Posted inCulture

Sacha Baron Cohen calls social media ‘the greatest propaganda machine in history’ at ADL conference

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA November 21, 2019November 22, 2019
Tiffany Haddish hosting "Kids Say the Darndest Things"
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Jewish man in ‘Irishman’; Tiffany Haddish hosts ‘The Darndest Things’; etc.

by Nate Bloom October 28, 2019
Paul Rudd (left) and Zach Galifianakis in "Between Two Ferns: The Movie"
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Jesse Eisenberg returns to ‘Zombieland’; Timothée Chalamet is Henry V; Jenny Slate’s first stand-up special

by Nate Bloom October 11, 2019October 11, 2019
Wald holds up a sign that says "Are we not drawn onwards, we Jews, drawn onward to a new era?"
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: Alan Wald, the ‘holy’ palindromist

by Patricia Corrigan August 13, 2019
Sarah Silverman said of today’s America: “Incitements of violence based on lies and the disingenuous re-framings of truth.” (Photo/Gage Skidmore-Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inComedy

A Florida pastor called for Sarah Silverman’s death

by JTA August 13, 2019
Andy Kindler performs in Los Angeles, Sept. 21, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Emma McIntyre-Getty Images)
Posted inComedy

This Jewish comedian thinks Trump is good for comedy — ‘if we don’t die!’

by Steve North and JTA July 25, 2019
A cover of Mad Magazine, which will no longer publish new content, from 1968 (Photo/JTA-Elizabeth W. Kearley-Getty Images)
Posted inComedy

How Mad magazine taught me to think like a Jewish intellectual

by Andrew Silow-Carroll July 9, 2019
Vanessa Bayer is best known as a former "Saturday Night Live" cast member, but she's also the author of a new children's book that reflects her own experience with illness as a child.
Posted inBooks

SNL alum Vanessa Bayer on comedy, her new children’s book and childhood illness

by Dan Pine June 21, 2019June 21, 2019

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