A new comedy special speaks directly to Jewish women
She helped launch the careers of everyone from Jay Leno to Jim Carrey, but her legacy on promoting women comics is more mixed
Check out his killer set about his athletic twin brother and his impossible-to-pronounce Hebrew name
The groundbreaking comedian died at 81 after a weeklong hospitalization
Aspiring comedian Josh Orlian delivers dirty jokes on America’s Got Talent
The intimate, obscene, lovable, fearless stand-up of ‘We Are Miracles’ shows the comedian at her sweet, shameless best
‘Let’s take off the face of the clock and watch the gears’
But in an in-depth interview with Tablet Magazine, he also gets serious about Israel, anti-Semitism, and why Italians love him
Art historian Miriam Katz wants to bring stand-up comedy into the serious world of galleries and museums
He’s one of the most inventive stand-up comedians around. So, why does he sound like a throwback?
To understand what comedy today reveals about Jews, look at the jokes gentile comedians tell about us
Once an institutionalized mental patient, the comic Moshe Kasher unleashes his psychological self-abuse in the new memoir Kasher in the Rye
Sarah Silverman seemed poised to usher in a new generation of secure, sexual, and powerful female comics. Instead, she went for empty shocks and cheap laughs.
