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Caitlin Cook’s “The Writing on the Stall,” a funny, poignant musical now at the Soho Playhouse, is the creative culmination of a decade spent documenting scrawls in public bathrooms.

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Comic Gianmarco Soresi mines his mixed Jewish background for laughs

How bathroom graffiti inspired this Jewish comedian and singer

Rachel Bloom’s one-woman musical comedy to open off-Broadway this fall

Did you hear the one about the Jewish comedians who set out to explain Israel?

Conan O’Brien talked to this New York rabbi about Judaism on his podcast

John Cleese cancels Cambridge University appearance over debate sparked by a Hitler impersonation

‘Blazing Saddles’ still stands as one of the great comedies — and the Mel Brooks film teaches lessons, too

Comedy club owner David Kimowitz and family nanny stabbed to death in suburban NJ

Louis C.K.’s leaked stand-up set has jokes about Auschwitz

How Jacob Cohen Became Rodney Dangerfield and Got Himself Some Respect