Comedy

Spanish film, 'My Friend Eva' - an unromantic comedy, defined by covert cynicism

It’s usually the men in movies who have this kind of sudden-onset midlife crisis, but here it’s Eva who impulsively decides to move out of her apartment and start dating.

Nora Navas and Rodrigo de la Serna in 'My Friend Ava.'
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Laughing through it: Israeli comedy films to celebrate Independence Day

The Home Front Command band party on the comedy show Eretz Nehederet, April 22, 2026

Eretz Nehederet searches for light at the end of the bomb shelter in season finale

Modi Rosenfeld takes the stage.

Bringing the Moshiach energy: Jewish comedian Modi Rosenberg comes to NYC's Radio City


Israel's Monty Python: Adopting British humor to Hebrew

How could this British troupe’s humor translate itself into Israeli Hebrew? It certainly was a challenge, but it was a gauntlet that was picked up by Zohar Sharon and Ron Oppenheim.

 The Revolution Orchestra and ‘The Passion of Monty Python.’

Vancouver comic festival bans Jewish artist over past IDF service

The festival assured that it would revise its policies and submission guidelines and adhere to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel’s guidelines.

 A person hangs a sign at a protest encampment in support of Palestinians, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 29, 2024.

'Comedy for Koby' brings humor in a time of tragedy

Jews using comedy as a remedy for tragedy is an old tradition. The 'Comedy for Koby' show will arrive in Israel in late may to uphold this tradition when the country appears to need it the most.

 FOR THE last 16 years, comedian Avi Liberman has been doing several shows a year to benefit the Koby Mandell Foundation.

Israel’s Jewish humor show offers a serious message for a dark time: We will survive

Nearly every sketch in the show satirizes an event from millennia’s worth of Jewish and Israeli religious texts and history. Its guiding principle is irreverence. 

 Children and their families supporting the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation "KAN" protest against the new government's intention to close "KAN" and "KAN" education channel, in Tel Aviv, February 3, 2023.

Rabbi Jill Hausman makes surprise appearance on 'Saturday Night Live,' reacts to jokes about Jews

Rabbi Jill Hausman, of Manhattan's Actors’ Temple, made a cameo on "Saturday Night Live," participating in a segment that involved reading edgy jokes.

Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special SNL Way Street Sign. Uploaded on 21/5/2024

Israel's Eurovision contestant Eden Golan saves other contestants in Eretz Nehederet sketch

Comedy show satire features Defense Minister confronting Eurovision critics. Sketches parody campus activism and political response.

 Eden Golan (left) with Shani Cohen (right) dressed as Golan and Roy Bar Natan (middle). Uploaded on 15/5/2024

Jerry Seinfeld gets silly in a movie about taking breakfast seriously

'I don’t want them to take anything away from it. I want them to just watch it and hopefully get a laugh or two,' Seinfeld says.

 JERRY SEINFELD, left, wrote, directed and stars in ‘Unfrosted.’

UK police investigate British comedian for social media death threats about Jewish woman

The now deleted-post led to Dane Baptiste’s agent dropping him as a client.

 Police officers keep watch as campaigners queue to lobby MPs in Parliament ahead of a debate to hold a vote for a ceasefire in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in London, Britain, February 21, 2024.

A new dark comedy asks: Was Bulgaria’s King Boris III a friend or a foe of the Jews?

While Boris III is believed to have been horrified by the Nazis’ antisemitism, he was pressured into signing a law that sent Bulgarian Jews to concentration camps.

 BULGARIAN TSAR Boris III, who ruled during the Holocaust, 1995. The book deconstructs what it says was his negative impact on the Jews as opposed to more positive narratives Bulgaria tried to present.

Mickey Saves the Day spoofs Israeli history with hilarious twists

Experiencing 'Mickey Saves the Day', a time-travel comedy blending history and humor, challenging Israeli ideals with witty parody and poignant insights.

 A SCENE from ‘Mickey Saves the Day.’ (14/4/2024)