Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Brett Gelman to Judy Gold, how Jewish comics are keeping the Chosen People smiling. In the weeks following the Oct. 7 attack ...

On the morning of Oct. 7, Israeli stand-up comedian Erik Angel knew he would have to cancel his show scheduled for that Saturday night in New York. He had spent the day before celebrating his wedding ...

Renowned Jewish comedienne Sarah Silverman was among a long line of A-list comedians who performed at the Anti-Defamation League’s NextGen young professionals’ “Stand-Up Against Hate” comedy night at ...

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon Prime explores the fictional life of a female stand-up comedian in the late 1950s. But while Midge Maisel is fictional, the character is rooted in the real-life ...

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — As “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” tries to make abundantly clear, stand-up comedy is a New York Jewish thing. The show is set in an era when Jewish comics were defining ...

Comedian Gibran Saleem had never met a Jewish person until starting his graduate studies at New York University more than a decade ago. The child of Pakistani immigrants, Saleem was raised in a Muslim ...

As the host of a recent episode of “Saturday Night Live,” Dave Chappelle devoted much of his 15-minute monologue to the widely denounced antisemitic statements and activity involving rapper Kanye West ...

Jewish and Muslim stand-up comedians will share a stage this March in Milwaukee. Started by an Israeli immigrant to New York, the "Comedy for Peace" show has toured the country with the aim of ...

In the weeks following the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, Elon Gold couldn’t feel funny. How could the Jewish comedian, who normally performs almost every other night, crack jokes as he was still ...

Israeli comic Matan Peretz is back on the performance circuit after taking a break to fight in the Gaza War -- as well as figure out how to be funny in a time of historic horror.