Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America

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From the earliest jokes told on the Lower East Side to the comedy routines honed in the Catskills, Ashkenazi Jews developed radically new forms of comedic output in the 20th century. On film and television, pioneering Jewish comics broke norms and challenged taboos of American culture.

In our newest self-paced online course, delve into the history of Jewish comedy and its explosive development in the United States. See hundreds of unique archival objects, including vintage jokebooks, early comedy records, film, television, and radio clips, photographs, and posters, along with interviews and discussions with leading scholars and personalities from the world of Jewish comedy.

Hosted by YidLife Crisis (Eli Batalion & Jamie Elman)

FEATURING:

W. Kamau Bell — Lewis Black — Drew Friedman — Jena Friedman
Judy Gold — Robert Klein — Marc Maron — Paul Reiser
Modi Rosenfeld — Billy West — Michael Wex — Alan Zweibel

And more!

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