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Comedy

Characters on the closing skit of the first episode of the new season of Israel's "The Jews are Coming" tell a story of Jewish trauma and perseverance that spans thousands of years. (Screenshot)
Posted inTV & Film

Israel’s Jewish humor show offers a serious message for a dark time: We will survive

Ben Sales by Ben Sales May 23, 2024
Jerry Seinfeld performing in 2019. (Photo/Ralph_PH via Flickr CC BY 2.0)
Posted inComedy

In Seinfeld’s new anti-woke kvetch, a tale of two Pop-Tart jokes

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar April 29, 2024
Comedian Modi Rosenfeld (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Rosenfeld)
Posted inUncategorized, Comedy

Modi, a comedian popular with Orthodox crowds, has a new special. He wants non-Jews to watch, too.

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg March 27, 2024March 27, 2024
Israelis featured on the @israelsowhite Instagram account, which celebrates diverse Jewish heritage and pokes fun at claims that Israelis are “white colonizers.” (Photo/Courtesy Ben Younger)
Posted inFilm

Instagram’s ‘IsraelSoWhite’ mocks notion of Israelis as ‘white colonizers’

Beth Harpaz by Beth Harpaz February 12, 2024February 12, 2024
Jon Stewart is returning to his old perch on "The Daily Show" — but only part-time. (Photo/Comedy Central)
Posted inTV

Jon Stewart is coming back to ‘The Daily Show.’ Will his old audience follow?

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar January 25, 2024
(From left) Writers and directors Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker attend the 30th Anniversary screening of "Airplane!" at the Walter Reade Theater on Aug. 9, 2010 in New York City. (Photo/JTA-Neilson Barnard-Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

The Jewish team behind the classic comedy ‘Airplane!’ explains how it got off the ground

by Lenny Picker January 11, 2024January 11, 2024
A pink-haired parody of a Berkeley progressive corrects her fellow "Three Wise Persons" on gender politics in a recent video from the Israeli sketch comedy series "Eretz Nehederet." (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inAnalysis

Viral videos about Bay Area antisemitism blur the line between reality and satire

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten December 29, 2023January 3, 2024
(Photo/JTA-Getty Images; Collage/JTA-Grace Yagel)
Posted inObituaries

20 Jewish celebrities who died in 2023

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman December 19, 2023
Norman Lear attends the Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony honoring Marla Gibbs on July 20, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Amy Sussman-Getty Images)
Posted inTV & Film

Norman Lear, Jewish creator of pioneering TV comedies including ‘All in the Family,’ dies at 101

by Andrew Lapin December 6, 2023
“Eretz Nehederet,” a satirical TV show in Israel, mocked far-left American student activists in a recent English-language video. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inComedy

Comedians defend Israel the best way they know how: Make ’em laugh

by Amy Klein November 17, 2023

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