Jewish comedy Jewish comedy David Baddiel (born May 28, 1964, Troy, New York, USA) is an English comedian, novelist and television presenter. After studying at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree, he read English at King's College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Cambridge Footlights, and graduated with a double first. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Baddiel"
Harold Ramis (born November 21, 1944) is an American actor, director, and writer. His best known acting roles are as "Egon Spengler" in Ghostbusters and "Russell Ziskey" in Stripes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harold Ramis"
Henny Youngman (Henry Youngman, March 16, 1906 - February 24, 1998) was a comedian and violinist famous for "one-liners", short simple jokes usually delivered rapid-fire. His best known one-liner is "Take my wife—please". ...more on Wikipedia about "Henny Youngman"
Jackie Mason (born Jacob Maza on June 9, 1931, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin) is an American stand-up comedian. He enjoys provoking controversy with his politically incorrect routines and his opinionated observations on Jewish and American life. He gained infamy by allegedly giving Ed Sullivan the finger (he denies this, insisting instead that numerous fingers were flashed and Ed Sullivan assumed he gave him the finger. He later retaliated against Sullivan with a libel suit in the New York State Supreme Court and won. It would be a year and a half before Sullivan would finally let him back on his show). ...more on Wikipedia about "Jackie Mason"
Jason Alexander (born Jason Scott Greenspan, September 23, 1959, in Newark, New Jersey), is a television, cinema and musical theatre actor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jason Alexander"
Jewish humor is the long tradition of humor in Judaism dating back to the Torah and the Midrash, but generally refers to the more recent stream of verbal, self-deprecating and often anecdotal humor originating in Eastern Europe and which took root in the United States over the last hundred years. Beginning with vaudeville, and continuing through radio, stand-up, film, and television, a disproportionate percentage of comedians have been Jewish, carrying on a distinctive tradition of humor that spans several thousand years. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jewish humor"
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (born January 13, 1961 in New York City) is an American actress and comedienne. ...more on Wikipedia about "Julia Louis-Dreyfus"
Herschel Pinkus Yerucham Krustofski, more commonly known as Krusty the Clown is a fictional character in the cartoon The Simpsons. (His name was originally Herschel Schmoikel Krustofski, but it has changed since the episode " Today I am A Clown.") He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta. Krusty is the long-time clown host of Bart and Lisa's favorite TV show. The TV show is a combination of kiddie variety-television hijinks with a sidekick, and cartoons (including the Tom and Jerry parody Itchy and Scratchy). His sidekick Sideshow Bob, has been replaced by Sideshow Mel. Another sidekick was Sideshow Raheem, an angry black young man in sunglasses who wears a multi-colored dashiki, but no evidence exists to show if Sideshow Bob was a replacement for Sideshow Raheem. One Krusty trademark is where everything in connection with his name that would normally begin with 'C' is replaced with 'K,' as evident by the original spelling of his name, Krusty the Klown. ...more on Wikipedia about "Krusty the Clown"
Lenny Bruce ( October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial Jewish- American stand-up comedian and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lenny Bruce"
The Marx Brothers were a team of sibling comedians that appeared in vaudeville, stage plays, film and television. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marx Brothers"
Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is a Jewish-American actor, writer director, and theatrical producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and parodies. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mel Brooks"
Phil Silvers ( May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedy actor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Phil Silvers"
Rick Moranis (born April 18, 1953, Toronto, Ontario) is a comic actor best known for his work on SCTV and in films such as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Ghostbusters. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rick Moranis"
Sacha Baron Cohen (born 13 October, 1971 in London, England) is a comedian notable for his highly successful comedy characters Ali G (an MC from Staines), Borat (a Kazakhstan reporter) and Bruno (a gay Austrian fashion reporter). ...more on Wikipedia about "Sacha Baron Cohen"
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Seinfeld is a television sitcom which ran from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998. One of the most popular and influential TV programs of the 1990s, it epitomizes the self-obsessed and ironic culture of the decade. In 2002, TV Guide released a list of the top 50 greatest shows of all time and ranked Seinfeld #1. The show was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. It stars Jerry Seinfeld playing " Jerry Seinfeld", a character named after and based largely on himself, and is set predominantly in an apartment block in Manhattan's Upper West Side. It features an eclectic cast of characters, mainly Jerry's friends and acquaintances such as Elaine Benes ( Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George Costanza ( Jason Alexander) and Cosmo Kramer ( Michael Richards). It was produced by Castle-Rock Entertainment (then helmed by actor-producer Rob Reiner) and distributed by Columbia Pictures Television (now Sony Pictures Television). ...more on Wikipedia about "Seinfeld"
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