SHOWTIME Banks On Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Comedy
Yank, the upcoming Showtime network series, is basically the comedic version of "Chaim Potok's The Chosen".
Superman’s Jewish Roots (According To Hizbollah)
According to a recent Hizbollah TV broadcast, Krypton's only surviving son might actually be Jewish! What a novel and unexpected theory.
“Neurosis Is A Funny State of Being” – Shed Simove talks Comedy, Philosophy, and Rabbinic Sex Toys
Americans may know Shed Simove as the creator of the "Rampant Rabbi" dildo, but when it comes subversive laughs, Shed is quite the renaissance man.
Here’s Susan: 313, Sarah Silverman’s Rejected NBC Pilot, In Its Entirety
Watch Sarah 313, and wonder what might have been...
Some Kind of Comedian: Danny Lobell
It's tough being Scottish/Jewish/Orthodox-raised LA comic, but Danny Lobell makes it look easy. Megan Sass sits down to chat with the red-hot comedian.
When Comedy Went to School: The Heeb Review
It gives a great, if somewhat impressionistic, picture of this lost world (including some salacious details about the trysting that went on between the ladies up in the Catskills without their husbands and the young, male hotel staff members)
It’s Chlobbering Time! Matt Fraction Chats About The Thing’s – And His Own – Jewish Roots
With his latest Fantastic Four issue taking us back to a 1940's, Jewish-Lower-East-Side-looking "Yancy Street," comics writer Matt Fraction discusses The Thing's heritage, family and desire for Matzoh-ball soup.
Spider-Jew
It's hardly offensive (or funny), but the fact that the minute-long 'toon ends with a "to be continued" sparks enough interest to see if the questionable SalamtakProductions has anything significant up its slee...
