Comedy

Comic Gianmarco Soresi mines his mixed Jewish background for laughs

A “comedian to watch” built a following with videos of his ad-libbed banter with club audiences.

How bathroom graffiti inspired this Jewish comedian and singer

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.

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

The Jewish comedian, actress and writer will perform “Death, Let Me Do My Show,” at Lucille Lortel Theatre in the West Village in September.

Four Questions

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

New York

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

Global

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

Culture

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

United States

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

Culture

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

Culture

How Jacob Cohen Became Rodney Dangerfield and Got Himself Some Respect

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