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Eli Batalion, left, as Leizer, and Jamie Elman, as Chaimie, discuss their favorite sukkah activities in the web series 'YidLife Crisis.' (Courtesy)
September 23, 2018, 1:50 am
‘YidLife Crisis’ celebrates newly legalized species in ‘Sukkannabis’ episode
Kicking off season 3, Chaimie and Leizer make the most of the harvest festival and smoke an incense offering in the sukkah in honor of Canada’s upcoming cannabis legalization
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Raphael Bob-Waksberg, right, in studio with “BoJack Horseman” actor Aaron Paul. (Netflix via JTA)
September 16, 2018, 2:18 am
The creator of ‘BoJack Horseman’ comes from a home of funny Jews
Raphael Bob-Waksberg doubts he would now make some of the jokes he made about anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Nazis in the show’s first season
By Renee Ghert-Zand
House Homeland Security Committee member Rep. Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
August 5, 2018, 6:19 pm
Congressman still showing off bogus pro-Israel award from Sacha Baron Cohen
On his website, Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania touts his medal from the nonexistent ‘Yerushalayim Television’
By Luke Tress
Orny Adams is headlining the 'Ethnic Show' at Montreal’s prestigious Just For Laughs festival. (Courtesy of Just For Laughs/via JTA)
July 26, 2018, 10:58 am
Comedian Orny Adams talks about his Jewish background (just not onstage)
The observational humorist skips the identity politics and pokes fun at the ‘small things that bother us every day’
By Steve North
Sacha Baron Cohen in Who Is America?, July 2018 (YouTube screenshot)
July 16, 2018, 8:51 am
Sacha Baron Cohen is back befuddling folks who should really know better
First episode of ‘Who Is America’ snares Bernie Sanders and Trent Lott, and sees Cohen as an Israeli character trying to get gun-rights advocates to endorse arming preschoolers
By Mark Kennedy
Rachel Brosnahan won for best actress in a television series - musical or comedy for "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" at the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards, January 8, 2018. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
July 13, 2018, 8:05 am
‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ Sarah Silverman’s show snag Emmy nods
Rachel Brosnahan, the non-Jewish star of very Jewy ’Maisel,’ nominated for best lead actress in a comedy series; notably missing: Roseanne Barr
By JTA
Sacha Baron Cohen arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 4, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
July 8, 2018, 11:39 pm
Sacha Baron Cohen to poke fun at US in new show
After comedian releases mysterious video of Trump, posters asking ‘Who is America?’ appear in Brooklyn promoting his new Showtime program
By TOI staff
Ali G. (Sacha Baron Cohen), right, interviews Donald Trump (YouTube)
July 5, 2018, 6:42 am
Sacha Baron Cohen trolls old foe Trump with cryptic new video
British comedian takes aim at the president with mysterious Independence Day message
By TOI staff
Comedian Judy Gold. (Courtesy)
May 27, 2018, 5:56 am
In an erstwhile yeshiva boy’s comedy club, Jewish jokes reign supreme
Are Jews funnier because they suffered? The Times of Israel asks three New York comics who regularly perform at Yeshiva University alum Dani Zoldan’s renowned venue, Stand Up NY
By Michelle Divon
Comedian Moshe Kasher performing in 'The Honeymoon Special' (Netflix)
May 25, 2018, 4:20 am
Raised half secular, half Satmar, comic Moshe Kasher is half serious on Judaism
Going head-to-head, newly married Jewish comedians Kasher and wife Natasha Leggero crush it in Netflix’s ‘The Honeymoon Stand Up Special’
By Tracy Frydberg
The latest three American comics to appear in Israel for a Comedy for Koby show, with Moody McCarthy (left), Jessica Kirson and Alonzo Bodden (Courtesy Comedy for Koby)
May 22, 2018, 2:53 pm
Trio of comics to perform in latest season of Comedy for Koby
Moody McCarthy, Jessica Kirson and Alonzo Bodden will appear on Israeli stages during the last week of May
By Jessica Steinberg
The four stars of 'Shababnikim,' HOT's new series about young yeshiva guys, which will be screened in English as a Times of Israel Presents event on May 30 (Courtesy HOT)
April 30, 2018, 5:58 am
Young men in black are the stars of HOT’s award-winning ‘Shababnikim’
The show about yeshiva guys is a first for writer Eliran Malka, who collaborated with longtime producer Danny Paran
By Jessica Steinberg
Abbi Jacobson, left, and Ilana Glazer speaking in Beverly Hills, California, July 25, 2017. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Viacom)
April 13, 2018, 5:15 am
The most Jewish moments from ‘Broad City,’ as it comes to a close
Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson say the next season of their Comedy Central wacky sitcom with be its last
By Gabe Friedman
Gad Elmaleh performing during his new Netflix special, 'American Dream.' (Netflix)
April 8, 2018, 6:29 am
France’s funniest guy is a Moroccan Jew in pursuit of the American laugh
Gad Elmaleh’s mom might not think her son is all that funny, but audiences will disagree after watching the French comedian’s new Netflix special, ‘American Dream’
By Tracy Frydberg
Prof. Jeremy Dauber, author of 'Jewish Comedy: A Serious History.' (Courtesy)
March 11, 2018, 6:16 am
From Sholem Aleichem to ‘Broad City,’ scholar presents tradition of Jewish humor
Speaking at London’s Jewish Book Week on Sunday, Prof. Jeremy Dauber takes a serious look at a culture’s rich history of comedy
By Anne Joseph
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