Many funny people suffer from depression, substance abuse, and other mental health problems. Therefore to be funny, you must be sad. Getting treatment or asking for help dulls your funny. Right? Nah, says Sarah Silverman in a new, freely available documentary from Funny Or Die and SoulPancake. Untreated mental health issues aren’t the secret sauce…
Nick Kroll, the adult version guy who would have passed along the message that his best friend had a crush on your best friend during a USY trip, played a public game of Jewpardy with his childhood rabbi on YouTube this week. And people say it’s not the golden age of Judaism. The comic, actor,…
The saga of Volodymyr Zelensky — the Jewish comedian elected president of Ukraine — was already mind-boggling. Now it’s taken a turn for the surreal, as the 41-year-old has assumed a place not just as head of a country of 44 million people, but also at the center of a potentially historic American political scandal….
Ever since Vanessa Bayer, who gave the world Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy, the cast of Saturday Night Live has been in desperate need of funny Jewish women. (In fact, it’s not clear how they’ve been making the show up to this point without them.) The show that launched the likes of Gilda Radner, Rachel…
In “Brüno,” Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2009 follow-up to “Borat,” the title character and his boyfriend insert a series of household items into each other’s bodies, including but not limited to — an open champagne bottle, a spewing fire-extinguisher, and a hand-held vacuum. When Sacha Baron Cohen’s grandmother saw “Brüno” in theaters, she saw none of…
Kristen Wiig, very famous bridesmaid, will soon be a bride. Wiig is engaged to one Avi Rothman, per multiple news reports on Friday. At the Forward, Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray soda streamed out our ears, and the magen david chains tightened around our neck. For, nu — Avi Rothman is Jewish. Queen of comedy, “Saturday Night…
There is a time in a reporter’s life when she has to stand up and tell the truth. Even if the truth is unpopular. Even if it’s weird, and upsetting, and makes people say, “Didn’t this newspaper used to be about socialism?” That time is now and the truth is this: The “Angry Birds Movie…
Canadian Jewish comedian Steve Hofstetter took on an anti-Semitic heckler in a video posted on his YouTube channel earlier this year. In his act, Hofstetter mocked the white supremacists who chanted anti-Semitic slogans at a violent rally in Charlotesville, Virginia in 2017. A member of the audience responded with a claim that Jews control television….
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