comedy

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.

By MORDECHAI BECK
02/06/2024

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.

By AMY KLEIN
24/05/2024

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.

By JACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
21/05/2024

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.

By ELIZABETH KARPEN/JTA
08/05/2024
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