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"Dispatches from Quarantine" producer Tiffany Woolf (top left) introduces her sons to comic legend Carl Reiner (bottom) on a Zoom call. (Photo/Courtesy Silver Screen Studios)
Posted inUncategorized

Local producer’s quarantine web series includes Carl Reiner’s final interview

by Dan Pine August 17, 2020August 17, 2020
Seth Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum in “An American Pickle.” (Photo/HBO Max)
Posted inFilm

Very Jewish ‘American Pickle’ is sweet, sour and surreal

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz August 10, 2020August 10, 2020
two older men and one older woman struggle to get the corpse of another older man out of bed
Posted inTV

Move over ‘Shtisel’ — time to give other Israeli TV shows a look

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz July 29, 2020August 2, 2020
Julia Lindon in a scene from “Lady Liberty.” (Photo/Courtesy Classy Kid Productions)
Posted inTV

‘Lady Liberty’: Jewish Film Institute has Pride in livestream of funny TV pilot

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 15, 2020
Marc Maron in his Netflix comedy special "End Times Fun."
Posted inTV & Film

Marc Maron’s new standup special is perfect pandemic comedy for stressed-out parents

by Amy Klein and JTA April 17, 2020
Taika Waititi, center, wrote and directed "Jojo Rabbit." Roman Griffin Davis, jumping to his right, co-stars. (Photo/Kimberley French-Twentieth Century Fox)
Posted inFilm

‘Jojo Rabbit’ is a satirical lesson in how children learn to hate

by Emily Burack and JTA October 21, 2019October 23, 2019
headshot of sayed kashua
Posted inCulture

Palestinian Israeli writer, creator of TV comedy ‘Arab Labor,’ to speak in S.F.

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 4, 2019October 4, 2019
Kais Nashif plays Salam, an underachiever who works on a soap opera in “Tel Aviv on Fire.” (Photo/Courtesy S.F. Jewish Film Festival)
Posted inFilm

‘Tel Aviv on Fire,’ comedy about Palestinian soap opera writer, burns bright

by Michael Fox August 6, 2019August 6, 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 bald man in a green tshirt and jeans strikes a pose on a stage with a chair
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: He abandoned journalism for stand-up comedy and one-man shows

by Patricia Corrigan April 9, 2019

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