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Film & TV Were the Three Stooges a lot more Jewish than we realized?
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Culture Jewish rapper Kosha Dillz and Israeli comedian Or Mash appear on Nick Cannon’s ‘Wild ’N Out’
Up-and-comer Mash is the first Israeli-born performer on the VH1 improv show
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Culture With his ‘Jewish or antisemitic’ viral videos, Eitan Levine is stepping into a comedy lineage
Though Levine hadn’t heard of Lenny Bruce's Jewish and goyish bit, his act relies on the same intuitive understanding of Jewish vibes
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Culture Everything I learned about Jewish humor I learned from Mad magazine
For a Catholic kid from a white-bread town, the usual gang of idiots offered an education and a lifeline
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Culture How Gene Wilder became such a unique Jewish comedian
Gene Wilder had an atypical approach to Jewish humor
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Culture George Carlin’s ‘Class Clown’ is 50 years old — does it still hold up?
A new Judd Apatow-directed documentary on HBO leads our critic to revisit an album he loved in sixth grade
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Culture Was George Carlin really a prophet?
Though the stand-up comic opposed all religions, he followed in the tradition of Amos, Isaiah and Jeremiah
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