In the weeks following the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, Elon Gold couldn’t feel funny. How could the Jewish comedian, who normally performs almost every other night, crack jokes as he was still ...
Hosted by nonbinary and formerly Orthodox comedian Raye Schiller, “Big Yenta Energy” celebrates Judaism, queer identities — and gossip. (New York Jewish Week) — Growing up in an Orthodox community in ...
A Jewish comedian is taking over TikTok with her "brave" stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict. During a recent performance in a comedy club, an audience member asked Ashley Gavin: "How do you feel ...
In his viral video on social media after the Hamas attack on Israel, comedian Daniel-Ryan Spaulding riffs on the imagined reactions of an intolerably “woke” activist. “If there was a Hamas terrorist ...
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the unclaimed record for most ceremonial first pitches thrown by one person in a baseball season would be 40. So New York City-based comic Eitan Levine ...
Jewish comedians due to perform at Edinburgh Fringe have had their shows cancelled due to bar staff having 'safety concerns'. Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon were due to perform at the Whistlebinkies ...
Comedian Richard Lewis, who parlayed his neurotic Jewish personality and self-deprecating humor into a 50-year career as a standup and actor, died Wednesday. He was 76. Lewis had been in ill health ...
Sophie Tucker, from Even More Old Jewish Comedians (Drew Friedman) Marty Ingels, from Even More Old Jewish Comedians (Drew Freidman) Mae Questel, from Even More Old Jewish Comedians (Drew Freidman) ...
Israeli comic Matan Peretz is back on the performance circuit after taking a break to fight in the Gaza War -- as well as figure out how to be funny in a time of historic horror.