Comedy

Judd Apatow grew up idolizing Mel Brooks. Now he’s telling Brooks’ story in an HBO documentary

Mel Brooks: The 99-Year-Old Man!, a two-part HBO documentary debuting this week, is a career-spanning portrait of one of American comedy’s most influential figures.

MEL BROOKS and Judd Apatow attend the Los Angeles premiere of HBO Documentary Films' Mel Brooks: 99 Year Old Man! at Ted Mann Theater at the Academy Museum on January 20, 2026 in Los Angeles, California.
OMER ETZION, acting as US President Donald Trump on Eretz Nehederet.

‘Maybe we’ll bomb them, maybe I’ll just dance’: Eretz Nehederet laughs at Trump’s Iran attack plan

Photo from Murder at the Dead Sea

What to watch in Israel: War is over with ‘Murder at the Dead Sea’

Imogene Coca and Sid Caesar in a promotional photo for "Your Show of Shows," in 1952. The television show ran on NBC from 1950 to 1954.

Before ‘SNL,’ there was Sid Caesar and a roomful of Jewish writers


BBC parody skit slams anti-Israel bias, goes viral

Yuval Semmo, playing a BBC reporter, says he is reporting from the “illegal colony of Tel Aviv" and praises Hamas as “the most credible not terrorist organization in the world.”

  Liat Harlev (left) and Yuval Semmo (right) in their viral sketch about the BBC.

Variety to hold Hollywood summit on antisemitism with the stars

Variety will also publish a series of online essays in conjunction with the event, including writings by Maron, Kiss frontman Gene Simmons, Beanie Feldstein, Mayim Bialik.

A view of the iconic Hollywood sign

Sukkot homecoming for Israeli-born comic Modi

The shows will raise money for the Koby Mandell Foundation, the largest provider of emotional support services via multifaceted therapeutic programs for the thousands of bereaved Israelis.

 ISRAELI-AMERICAN comedian Modi.

Adam Sandler’s ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ is hit -review

"Well, welcome to being an adult. And welcome to being Jewish. We don’t get breaks.”

 ADAM SANDLER, as Danny Friedman (left) and Idina Menzel as his wife Bree Friedman in ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.’

Jewish jokes about food: Humor about what all Jews agree about - opinion

One thing we can all agree about is that Jews love food. And we love a joke, so no surprise that there are many Jewish jokes around this topic. 

 The ultimate Jewish dish? Matzah ball soup.

This woman moved to Jerusalem and clowns around at hospitals

Leah Yerushalmi uses puns, word games, quizzes, and inventive stories – each week on a different theme – to distract the patients from their worries and pain.

 VOLUNTEERING RECENTLY as a medical clown, ‘Lulu K’ELu,’ at Hadassah University Medical Center, Mt. Scopus.

Tributes and laughs at 2nd Israeli Comedy Festival

The extensive agenda comprises over 60 events that feed off the multi-stratified Israeli comedic heritage, and there are a lot of up-and-coming entertainers on the roster. 

 ‘THE CONTROL Games’ wild and woolly comedy treads a fine line between love and domination.

Gal Gadot spices it up over chicken wings on 'Hot Ones' YouTube show

If you have ever wondered how many hot wings Wonder Woman can eat or what performing stunts on Fast and Furious is like, now is your chance.

 Gal Gadot poses on the pink carpet for the world premiere of the film "Barbie" in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 9, 2023.

Alex Edelman, the summer’s hottest comedian, finds a tough Jewish crowd at a senior home

Edelman when asked by the New York Jewish Week if this was his toughest crowd yet, he said “Oh my God, yes.” 

 Alex Edelman, a Modern Orthodox comedian who was the head writer last year for "Saturday Night Seder," is now performing a show centered on the time he attended a white nationalist meeting.

At Chosen Comedy Festival in Brooklyn, comics lean into nuances of identity

“Jews are so dying to show how proud they are of being Jewish,” comedian Modi Rosenfeld told the New York Jewish Week

 Surprise guest Dave Attell appears onstage at the Chosen Comedy Festival on Coney Island on August 8, 2023.