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Culture Q & A: She’s Sarah Silverman’s Sister — And Just Officiated Tiffany Haddish’s Bat Mitzvah
Sure, there are a lot of Jews in Hollywood. But not one of them has ever had quite as memorable a showbiz bat mitzvah as Tiffany Haddish. Haddish, whose father is an Eritrean-born Ethiopian Jew, became bat mitzvah on December 3, her 40th birthday, and simultaneously premiered her new Netflix special “Black Mitzvah.” The actress…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman Takes Down The ‘Tortured Artist’ Myth: ‘Klonopin Saved My Life’
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…
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Fast Forward Sarah Silverman Says She Was Fired From Film Project Over Blackface Clip
(JTA) — Sarah Silverman said she was fired from a movie role after producers saw a clip of her in blackface, the Jewish comedian said in an interview on The Bill Simmons Podcast. “I recently was going to do two days on a movie, a sweet part in a cool little movie, then at 11…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman’s Devastating Mother’s Day Tribute To Non-Biological Moms
Comedian Sarah Silverman is kind of our collective beloved Jewish child — we think everything she does is gorgeous, above-average, and maybe should qualify her to be president. But even if you don’t regard the 48-year-old comic as a kind of high-ponytailed messiah, you have to admit that the Mother’s Day tribute she posted to…
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Life The Top 20 Jewish Comedians Of The Trump Era
Every day this week we’ll be highlighting classic and cutting-edge Jewish comedy, from the best Jewish memes to the best jokes about Jews by non-Jews. L’chaim! It’s a strange time in comedy when world events feel increasingly absurd, but, like…not in a fun way. Comedians can help us contextualize the absurdity. Or they can be…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman And Ilhan Omar Are In A Two-State Solution Lady Gang Now
Politics aside, there are exactly three people in the world who are really good at Twitter: President Donald Trump, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Weird Al Yankovic. The rest of us pretty much have to stick to the painstaking process of thinking through and then carefully fleshing out our ideas. After weeks of controversy, convolution, and…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman Says As The Only Jewish Kid At School She Felt Like a ‘Hairy Monkey’
(JTA) — “I was the hairy Jewish monkey in a sea of blond kids.” That’s not Seth Rogen or Jonah Hill — it’s Sarah Silverman talking about her upbringing in Bedford, New Hampshire, on an upcoming episode of “Finding Your Roots,” the celebrity genealogy show on PBS. Bedford, the comedian explains, was not exactly a…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman Is ‘Heartbroken’ About Women’s March Leadership
On Saturday, a sea of pink knitted hats will once again fill the streets of major cities as, for the third annual Women’s March, women unify in pursuit of human rights. But how many of those women will be Jewish? Comedian Sarah Silverman succinctly summed up much of the American Jewish response to the ongoing…
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