The Schmooze lies at the intersection of high and low culture. Here, the latest developments and trends in Jewish art, books, dance, film, music, media, television and theater are all assimilated into one handy pop culture blog.
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Inside The White House Correspondents’ Dinner With Obama’s Former Joke Writer
Barack Obama’s former speechwriter is opening up about what it was like writing jokes for the president — and his thoughts on Donald Trump skipping The White House Correspondents’ Dinner. David Litt, who currently heads the comedy series “Funny or Die” told Vulture that he balanced his formal speechwriting duties with writing quips for the…
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‘Mean Girls’ Gets A Fetch Musical Adaptation
You can’t sit with “Mean Girls the Musical,” but you can buy tickets to the Washington, D.C. world premiere of the upcoming Broadway musical, starting this Friday. Rumblings about the musical have been about as loud as the stomach of a person doing a 72-hour cranberry juice cleanse, but unlike the “South Beach Fat Flush,”…
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Barbra Streisand’s 5 Greatest Performances For Her 75th Birthday
Barbra Streisand, Broadway queen, turns 75 today. To celebrate her matchless contributions to American theater and film, check out five of her best on-screen moments, from “Funny Girl” to “The Way We Were.” 1) Her haunting performance of “Papa Can You Heart Me?” in “Yentl” 2) Her impassioned pacifist speech as a young firebrand communist…
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Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson’s First Business Venture Was ‘The Jew-iest’
Abbi Jacobson is one of our favorite broads out there, but she wasn’t always known for her largesse. She told Wealthsimple last week that as an enterprising 8-year-old she bought pencils with NFL team logos and resold them at a local craft fair for five times the original cost. She ended up raking in the…
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Why This Writer Doesn’t Regret His Failed Hitler Sitcom
What happens when you write a zany sitcom about Adolf Hitler, his wife and their Jewish next door neighbors? Well, not a whole lot. “Heil Honey, I’m Home,” a British comedy show produced in 1990, only made it one episode in before it was promptly pulled off the air. The show’s creator Geoff Atkinson spoke…
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WATCH: Trevor Noah Bids Bill O’Reilly The Ultimate Farewell
Shalom and see ya never, Bill O’Reilly. The Fox News host was ousted yesterday after a New York Times exposé revealed that the many sexual assault harassment cases filed against the TV host resulted in a total of $13 million settlements, split between Fox News and O’Reilly. You know, like the check at a steak…
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Larry David And Julia Louis-Dreyfus Were ‘Miserable’ Together On SNL
On the surface, landing a spot on “Saturday Night Live” seems like a prime gig for any aspiring comedian. But for Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who was only 21 when she joined the late-night cast, it turned out to be a completely “miserable” time. “It wasn’t what I’d hoped it would be,” Louis-Dreyfus told TODAY’s Willie Geist…
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The 6 Jews You Need To Follow On Instagram
Remember most of human history, when gazing at other people in admiration while rooting round through their belongings risked at least, a social interaction, at most, a restraining order? Now, thanks to Instagram, your insecurity can mingle with your morbid curiosity and your fantasies can flirt with your personal aesthetics, all at a party thrown…
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5 Things To Know About Vanessa Bayer, SNL’s Jacob The Bar Mitzvah Boy
“Saturday Night Live” star Vanessa Bayer might not be a household name quite yet, but she’s definitely climbing the comedy ranks to sit right alongside alums Tina, Amy, Jimmy, Seth and the rest. The 35-year-old Jewish comedian has successfully slipped from SNL, where she nails awkward adolescence as Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy, to the…
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4 Judy Blume Books You Need To Re-Read Now
I didn’t learn about changing bodies, breakups, friendship fights, and procreation from my middle school health class. That half hour was mostly reserved for the P.E. coach to talk about basketball with all the cool 13-year-old jocks. Instead, I turned to Judy Blume, who was a friend, storyteller, mentor and sex educator all rolled into…
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7 Secrets Amy Schumer And Goldie Hawn Revealed On Their ‘Snatched’ Tour
Mother’s Day: a time to strew various things with sprigs of lavender, attend brunch, hastily order flowers, and (if you’re Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn) trek through South America forests, pursued by kidnappers. “Snatched,” (double entendre intended, we imagine) starring Schumer and Hawn, arrives in theaters on May 12th, just in time for Mother’s Day….
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