Season 2 · Episode 163
Jews and Comedy in America with Eddy Portnoy
Comedy History 101: Where We School You in Comedy
March 19, 202440m 21s
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Show Notes
Jewish comedians, such as Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Gilbert Gottfried, have always broke norms and challenged taboos of American culture.
We talk to Eddy Portney of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research - historian and curator of the course: Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America.
We dive into the roots of Jewish humor from the Borscht Belt to modern times.
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