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Yid Vid: Looking for Jewish Comedians in All the Wrong Places

By Daniel Treiman March 11, 2008

To borrow the words of a famous Jewish comedian: pretty, pretty, pretty good!

Hat tip: L.A. Jewish Journal. (I don’t know how we got scooped on this one given the Forward’s longstanding association with a certain Jewish comedian who’s featured prominently in this video.)

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