Comedy
‘Fantasy Life,’ a Jewish-American dramedy, stars neurotic New Yorkers
The movie is more reminiscent of the films of Noah Baumbach, Nicole Holofcener, and Lisa Cholodenko at their best, or even, at moments, of James L. Brooks.
Spanish film, 'My Friend Eva' - an unromantic comedy, defined by covert cynicism
Laughing through it: Israeli comedy films to celebrate Independence Day
Eretz Nehederet searches for light at the end of the bomb shelter in season finale
Psychologist explains why laughing, comedy helps during wartime
One way we can help ourselves deal with the stress of war is to laugh. Laughter can calm our worries and heal our emotional wounds.
Israel's Monty Python: Adopting British humor to Hebrew
How could this British troupe’s humor translate itself into Israeli Hebrew? It certainly was a challenge, but it was a gauntlet that was picked up by Zohar Sharon and Ron Oppenheim.
Vancouver comic festival bans Jewish artist over past IDF service
The festival assured that it would revise its policies and submission guidelines and adhere to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel’s guidelines.
'Comedy for Koby' brings humor in a time of tragedy
Jews using comedy as a remedy for tragedy is an old tradition. The 'Comedy for Koby' show will arrive in Israel in late may to uphold this tradition when the country appears to need it the most.
Israel’s Jewish humor show offers a serious message for a dark time: We will survive
Nearly every sketch in the show satirizes an event from millennia’s worth of Jewish and Israeli religious texts and history. Its guiding principle is irreverence.
Rabbi Jill Hausman makes surprise appearance on 'Saturday Night Live,' reacts to jokes about Jews
Rabbi Jill Hausman, of Manhattan's Actors’ Temple, made a cameo on "Saturday Night Live," participating in a segment that involved reading edgy jokes.
Israel's Eurovision contestant Eden Golan saves other contestants in Eretz Nehederet sketch
Comedy show satire features Defense Minister confronting Eurovision critics. Sketches parody campus activism and political response.
Jerry Seinfeld gets silly in a movie about taking breakfast seriously
'I don’t want them to take anything away from it. I want them to just watch it and hopefully get a laugh or two,' Seinfeld says.
UK police investigate British comedian for social media death threats about Jewish woman
The now deleted-post led to Dane Baptiste’s agent dropping him as a client.
A new dark comedy asks: Was Bulgaria’s King Boris III a friend or a foe of the Jews?
While Boris III is believed to have been horrified by the Nazis’ antisemitism, he was pressured into signing a law that sent Bulgarian Jews to concentration camps.
