Rosé pri hagafen, everybody. “Wine Country,” a mid-life crisis comedy starring Jewish actresses Rachel Dratch and Maya Rudolph, as well as Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Ana Gasteyer and Paula Pell, dropped on Netflix on Friday, like the Shabbat Bride alighting. The bad news: Reviews suggest that this will not be the next “Bridesmaids.” The good…
Sing, goddess, of the genius of Gérard’s daughter Julia Louis-Dreyfus Brilliant, beautiful, that raven haired genius That brought down Emmy after Emmy, SAG awards dropping like rain Upon fair and foggy Washington, D.C. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who has more Emmy Awards for acting than there are days in the week, was rightfully honored with one of…
Jews love to get offended, and for good reason — the world is disgusting and most people hate us! So when we heard that the fourth season of Tina Fey’s Netflix show “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” was offensive towards Jews, we were eager to throw ourselves into the fray. One of our favorite Jewish publications…
After a particularly boring season on Broadway, there are few surprises among this season’s nominees for the Tony Awards. “SpongeBob SquarePants” and “Mean Girls” predictably mopped up nominations, scoring 12 apiece in a season in which new musicals were scarce. Equally predictably, “Escape to Margaritaville,” the Jimmy Buffet musical, won no Tony love; somewhat more…
Amy Poehler. Maya Rudolph. Tina Fey. Rachel Dratch. Paula Pell. Ana Gasteyer. Emily Spivey. These are seven of the funniest people alive. They all happen to be women. They all happen to be in their 40’s and 50’s. They all happen to be best friends. And they are making a movie. If you aren’t screaming,…
During a recent Weekend Update skit on Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey introduced us to a new concept: “Sheetcaking.” Fey performed a skit about dealing with feelings of anxiety and hopelessness in the wake of the Charlottesville white supremacist riots. Her satirical solution? Tell your woes to a sheet cake and then devour it, much…
When Tina Fey appeared on SNL’s Weekend Update to weigh in on the violence in Charlottesville, she shared her personal coping method, which she calls “sheet caking.” Instead of protesting neo-Nazis in person, thereby giving them attention and increasing the risk of getting hurt, Fey suggested something far more superficial, at least on the surface….
Seeing Tina Fey in a spoof of “Girls” on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live wasn’t just exhilarating because Our Lady of Feminist Comedy (pardon the Catholic reference) had returned, but because it also reinforced a world-order in which age and experience yields wisdom, both in humor and in life. In the skit, Fey…
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