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‘I suggest you all do it’: Tiffany Haddish urges visiting Israel

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In an Instagram Live video she shot after boarding a plane to Israel on Tuesday, actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish described the purpose of her trip, calling it “educational.” “I need to go see for myself, I’m one of those people,”...
Eretz Nehederet. Source: Screenshot.

US actor Michael Rapaport appears in Israeli satirical show

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American-Jewish actor Michael Rapaport arrived in Israel on Tuesday morning to appear in the satirical show Eretz Nehederet. Since the brutal Hamas attack on southwestern Israel on Oct. 7, Rapaport, who is known for his portrayal...
Sacha Baron Cohen as Ali G speaking to the Harvard class of 2004 in front of Memorial Church in Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Mass. June 9, 2004. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen to revive comedic persona Ali G

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As the Jewish comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s character would say: “Booyakasha!” The dim-witted, “hip-hop journalist” Ali G, who duped celebrities and politicians alike decades ago with nonsensical interview questions, will headline a new stand-up tour, Variety reported. (Someone close...
Photo: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

‘Pee-wee’s Playhouse’ star Paul Reubens dies at age 70

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“Please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing for the last six years,” a post on Paul Reubens’s Instagram account noted on Monday. “I have always felt a huge amount of...
Film director and comedian Mel Brooks at the 20th Century Fox lot on Oct. 23, 2014 in Century City, Calif. Credit: Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock

For Mel Brooks, world history (no joke!) repeats itself

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Nearly 40 years after his “History of the World, Part I” debuted in 1981, Mel Brooks released “History of the World, Part II” on the eve of Purim, which began on March 6. Brooks (he’ll...

After beer incident goes viral, comedian uses Jimmy Kimmel performance to joke about growing...

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Jewish comedian Ariel Elias, the star of a recent viral video clip in which a beer is thrown at her on stage before she calmly chugs some of it, continued her newfound time in...
Elon Gold. Credit: Courtesy.

A festival of laughs comes to Brooklyn, N.Y.

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There are Jewish comedians. And then there is Jewish comedy. The first-ever Chosen Comedy Festival, set for Aug. 16 in Brooklyn, N.Y., will bring both. “There’s so much about Jewish comedy that is talked about in...
Actor Will Smith slaps Chris Rock, fellow actor, comedian and host of the 94th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 27, 2022. Source: Screenshot.

Jewish comedians react to Academy Awards ‘slap heard round the world’

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When Will Smith jumped up on stage at the Academy Awards on Sunday night to approach fellow comedian and actor Chris Rock, the host of the show, many in the audience assumed it was...
Comedian Gary Gulman. Credit: Courtesy.

Gary Gulman: From ‘great depresh’ to great success

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For more than two decades, Gary Gulman has made a good living making people laugh, so it was a shock to many to hear something was making him cry. The Jewish comedian, who will...
Bob Saget (right) with his “Full House” co-stars John Stamos and Candace Cameron Bure at the Cool Comedy, Hot Cuisine 2019 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Californian on April 25, 2019. Credit: Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock.

Fellow comedians recall Bob Saget, quintessentially Jewish funnyman, who died at age 65

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Robert (“Bob”) Saget was best known as the understanding and loving father Danny Tanner in the ABC hit sitcom “Full House.” As a recently widowed father of DJ, Stephanie and Michelle (Candice Cameron Bure,...