Rudner is a frequent collaborator with her writer/producer husband, Martin Bergman.
By SHAWN RODGERSUpdated: FEBRUARY 23, 2016 10:45LOL Comedy from Hollywood/ Wikimedia Commons(photo credit: LOL COMEDY FROM HOLLYWOOD/ WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)
American Jewish comedian, actress and author Rita Rudner is bringing her unique style of comedy and epigrammatic one-liners to Herzliya’s Zappa Club on April 9 with her Las Vegas show, An Evening with Rita Rudner.Over the course of a 14-year run and 2,000-plus shows, Rudner has sold one-and-a-half million tickets and become the longest-running solo comedy show in the history of Las Vegas, even being named Las Vegas’ Comedian Of The Year nine years in a row.Rudner’s appearances in the late ’80s on The Tonight Show, Late Night with Letterman and Comic Relief established her as one of the country’s premier stand-up comedians.Rita Rudner Israel announcement Winner of the 1990 American Comedy Award for Funniest Stand Up Comedienne, she starred in her first award-winning HBO special Born To Be Mild later that same year.Rudner is a frequent collaborator with her writer/producer husband, Martin Bergman.The couple’s first produced film script was the 1992 British comedy Peter’s Friends, in which Rudner acted alongside Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh.For tickets and more info visit www.leaan.co.il or *8780 https://www.youtube.com/embed/dKOLr8AXYhQ