Volume 4, Issue 2 Resources
BELOW IS A SAMPLING OF RESOURCES THAT PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION ON JEWISH WOMEN IN COMEDY.
Links to the comedians featured in this issue:
Fran Drescher
Betsy Salkind
Alana Eisner
Recommended books:
Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the 21st Century by Simcha Weinstein (2009).
"Your primer to the ever-changing face of Jewish comedy at the dawn of the 21st century: the new faces, their outrageous routines and their sometimes surprising seriousness about the most de pressing issues of our time."
Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say about the Jews by Joseph Telushkin (Harpercollins, 1998). Check out this fascinating and scholarly look at what makes Jews funny and what’s behind the humor.
Some of our favorite queens of shtick today:
More links to check out:
Jewish Humor in America: From the Borscht Belt to Broadway and beyond by William Novak
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